The home where Formula One racing champ Oscar Piastri grew up is set to rev up Brighton’s property market.
Oscar Piastri racing; and with his mum, Nicole, right.
Piastri has become one of Australia’s most successful F1 drivers, having already matched Mark Webber’s nine Grand Prix wins, including seven victories for McLaren last year.
The 25-year-old had already won a number of Formula 3 and Formula 2 championships before moving into motor racing’s top class in 2023.
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He is now one of just five Australians to win a Grand Prix event, and came tantalisingly close to claiming a World Drivers’ Championship last year — which would have elevated him into the company of the nation’s most successful ever driver Jack Brabham, who won it three times.
Piastri would have moved to the Brighton area home in his youth with parents Nicole and Chris, who founded automotive software firm HP Tuners.
The property was built new for the family, including Piastri who would then have been in primary school, and his sisters Hattie, Mae and Edie.
Oscar Piastri’s mother Nicole and his sisters Hattie, Mae, and Edie meet with fans on the Melbourne Walk at the Melbourne Grand Prix. Picture: Jake Nowakowski.
The family’s Brighton East home comes with an enviable space to relax in the back yard.
Title documents show the home is in the name of Nicole Piastri, while records show it last sold for $1.27m in 2009 and has since had a pool added while the house received a major upgrade.
In an interview with the Herald Sun earlier this week, Ms Piastri said the home was the one place “where he gets to be just Oscar” and where “there’s no airs and graces” for the racing industry figure.
An impressive kitchen is all set for entertaining guests or family as needed.
She also revealed the home is where he went the day after this year’s Melbourne Grand Prix crash that left him sidelined before the event even started.
Now listed with a $6.5m asking price, it is being sold by Nick Johnstone Real Estate boss Nick Johnstone — a go-to agent for Melbourne’s elite in the ritzy Bayside suburb.
Mr Johnstone declined to discuss the vendor or the property, but did note that homes with no work needed were getting strong results in the Brighton area lately.
Open-plan living is enhanced by the scope to step outside via French doors.
Past clients whose homes he has sold include the likes of Richmond AFL premiership hero Dustin Martin, Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge and the family of cricket legend Shane Warne.
The Piastri family’s six-bedroom house is a perfect blend of casual luxury and entertainer’s paradise.
It features expansive glazing around the home’s open-plan living and entertainment zone, with the kitchen containing a massive central island bench with a butler’s pantry off to the side.
French doors open to the back yard where a pool with a water feature cascading into it and an outdoor entertainment space await in finer weather.
A home office comes with a waiting area and its own kitchenette, while the ground-floor main bedroom has a ensuite.
There are four more bedrooms upstairs, along with a multipurpose space.
The kitchen’s concealed butler’s pantry is ready for a quick pit stop around lunch time.
A home office comes with its own kitchenette.
Below ground the house features a home theatre and a six-car basement garage with a turn table.
Outside, the home’s rear yard is surrounded by high fences and hedging for privacy.
Near schools including Piastri’s alma mater, Haileybury Brighton, as well as St Leonard’s College, the home is also close to the Brighton Public Golf Course and a short trip from Brighton Beach and local train stations.
Late last year Oscar Piastry’s father, Chris, bought a $7.3m Mornington Peninsula home in Mt Eliza with a pool, self-contained guesthouse, a home theatre, gym, lift and wine cellar.
A turnstile basement with room for six cars — fittingly, Piastri’s McLaren F1 car uses a Mercedes engine.
The family’s Brighton East home also comes with a basement home theatre.
Mr Johnstone is also currently working with colleague Marty Pask to sell a $13.5m-$14m mansion at 31 Middle Cres, Brighton.
The impressive five-bedroom Italianate Victorian on a 1141sq m plot comes surrounded with outdoor entertainment spaces, a pool in the back yard and a spectacular glass-topped conservatory with a barbecue kitchen.
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