Television news presenter and journalist Tom Steinfort and his stylist wife Claudia Jukic have quietly sold their house in Melbourne’s inner south east.
Mr Steinfort is the co-host of Channel 9’s Melbourne 6pm weeknight news bulletin alongside Alicia Loxley.
Across the past two decades, Mr Steinfort has served as a foreign correspondent in more than 50 countries for programs including 60 Minutes.
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Newsreader Tom Steinfort and his wife, stylist Claudia Jukic, have sold a Melbourne house.
He’s known for high-profile stories including an interview with the president of war-town Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, from a secret bunker in the country’s capital Kyiv, in 2022.
He also followed Donald Trump on the campaign trail in the lead-up to the 2016 US elections; covered former professional sprinter’s Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial in South Africa and twice gained access to the secretive communist state of North Korea.
On a lighter note, Mr Steinfort sang a karaoke version of the song Jolene with country music legend Dolly Parton during a 2019 interview.
Mr Steinfort has received several accolades including the 2022 Kennedy Award for Foreign Correspondent of the Year, which recognises Australian journalists covering global events.
Alicia Loxley and Tom Steinfort present the Channel 9 news on weeknights in Melbourne. Picture: Channel 9.
A book he wrote about Dubai’s ruling dynasty, plus the country’s human rights issues, censorship and the lack of women’s rights, titled The Sins of the Sheikh, was published in 2021.
The Prahran house dates back to the Victorian era. Pictures: Instagram@_jessejones
Mr Steinfort and Ms Jukic farewelled their Victorian-era Prahran residence in an offmarket deal which Whitefox’s Jesse Jones described as the “suburb’s best sale of 2026”, in a social media post earlier this week.
However, Mr Jones, who did not name the abode’s owners in his post, declined to comment when contacted by the Herald Sun.
Tom Steinfort and Claudia Jukic were married in Croatia, in 2019. Picture: Christian Gilles.
But records show that Mr Steinfort and Ms Jukic own the home, which had a caveat placed on it under the name of Catriona Larritt, on May 21.
Catriona Larritt is same name as the chief customer officer of Australia’s largest network of liquor retailers and licensed hotels, the Endeavour Group.
That Ms Larritt is also an Essendon Football Club director, Australian Athletics board member and a former Qantas Group chief customer and digital officer.
The Prahran house showcases high ceilings, cornice and other period features.
The renovated Bondi house which the couple sold in February 2026.
The Prahran pad has multiple bathrooms.
Separate records show that Mr Steinfort and Ms Jukic paid more than $2m for the Prahran house, in 2024.
According to its online listing, the residence features cornices, period fireplaces, American oak floors, marble surfaces and an open-plan living, dining and kitchen area fitted with a six-burner oven.
In March, model and clothing designer Nadia Bartel, who was previously married to Geelong player Jimmy Bartel, sold a house in the same Prahran street after listing it for $3m-$3.2m.
And in February, Mr Steinfort and Ms Jukic farewelled a three-bedroom Bondi home for about $3.2m through PPD’s Alexander Phillips and Vince Licata.
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