‘Fresh energy’: Canva couple sell Bondi home near $5.5m guide

New images promote access to the back yard, which has room for a pool. Just three months ago, a couple who have met and married during their time at graphic design giant Canva were tipped to be facing a $1m loss with the resale of their Bondi home. But now it’s sold for close to $5.5m, just $200k short of the $5.7m Zach Kitshke and Cat van der Werff paid at the peak of the market in March, 2022. Simon Exleton of Pillinger Estate Agents, who made the Miller St sale three weeks after picking up the listing and giving it a $5m to $5.5m guide, says new images and “fresh energy” in a pre-spring campaign made all the difference: he had buyers fighting over it and it sold near the top end of the guide. “Every year at this time of the year ahead of spring we get a fresh set of buyers,” Exleton said. “None of the three or four we had interested this time were there in the earlier campaign with different agents.” MORE: 40yo erects shock billboards around Australia Exleton had the property sold within three weeks of picking up the listing. He had three or four buyers keen. Back in April, there had been no bids when the five-bedroom semi went under the hammer with a $5.4m guide, and the follow...