MAFS experts Alessandra Rampolla, Mel Schilling and John Aiken. Picture: Channel 9
Channel 9’s Married At First Sight psychologist John Aiken has bought at Middle Cove.
It is a six-bedroom, three-bathroom house with study, that cost just over $5m.
The three-level home was quietly bought off-market through Richardson & Wrench agents Chris Downie and Mark O’Brien last November.
It was marketed as being a “Tuscan-inspired family estate”.
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MAFS’s John Aiken has bought at Middle Cove. Picture: realestate.com.au
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There is a resort-style 12m saltwater pool on its 800sq m-plus holding, with an adjacent covered pergola and alfresco terrace with grape vine – its cutting of Shiraz having come from Tyrell’s Winery in the Hunter Valley.
The house, with 336 bottle wine cellar, was last sold in 2005, also by Mark O’Brien, for $1,766,000.
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There is a resort-style 12m saltwater pool on its 800sq m-plus holding, with an adjacent covered pergola and alfresco terrace with grape vine. Picture: realestate.com.au
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After just 10 sales in the past year, PropTrack calculate the median house price in the Middle Harbour peninsula suburb at a record $4,005,000, up 8 per cent annually.
Tyneside, the matchmaker’s landmark mansion in Willoughby East, was recently sold by Aiken and his interior designer wife, Kelly Swanson-Roe, through Rose Farina and Denise Woo of McGrath.
The modernised High St five-bedroom, two-bathroom sandstone residence came with guidance of $5.8m.
John Aiken.
Tyneside, bought for $2.93m in 2019, was built in the 1880s for Robert Forsyth, who headed one of Willoughby’s pioneering families.
The 2026 MAFS series, in its 13th season, reached over 16 million viewers nationally, up 5.9 per cent on last year, generating more than 9.3bn minutes viewed over 11 weeks.
This week PM Anthony Albanese told The Daily Telegraph that it had been “great escapism”.
“Jodie loves MAFS, and I must admit I thought many of the people in it were horrible this year, but it sucks you in completely,” he said.
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