Foxtel’s Neale Whitaker with partner David Novak-Piper at Seven Mile Beach on the NSW south coast
TV presenter Neale Whitaker and his partner David Novak-Piper are “moving on”, having more than doubled their money on their South Coast property.
The Love it or List It co-host (Foxtel) and My Reno Rules judge (starting soon on the 7 Network) confirmed to the Wentworth Courier they’d sold their four bedroom home on a hectare at Bundewallah near Berry for about $4.5m.
“We’re very happy with what we sold it for, we couldn’t have asked for a better price,” Whitaker said.
They’d bought the property for $1,837,500 in mid 2018, done a major reno and also added a guest house, but they’d still doubled their money.
“That sounds about right, though we did spend quite a bit of money and we’ve built it to a very high standard and no doubt added a huge amount of value to the property,” he said.
Whitaker had announced news of the sale in an Instagram video earlier this week, without revealing the price, saying it was “bittersweet”.
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Neale Whitaker and David Novak-Piper at their Bundewallah property. Picture: Rachael Tagg.
They’ve now sold their Bundewallah property for about $4.5m.
Neale Whitaker with his Love it or List it co-host Andrew Winter. Picture: Foxtel
“We have sold our lovely property here on the NSW South Coast where we’ve lived for almost eight years and we’re moving on,” Whitaker said in the video.
He said David had been in poor health in recent years and, although he was now much better, they had decided to downsize and “simplify their lives” to a new reno project in the area, which they loved.
When questioned further this morning, he said: “We’re moving into town, Berry, we’re not going to be on a property now.
“We’re downsizing, in terms of the size … I’m looking out now on the stunning green paddocks of Bundewallah, which I won’t be looking at in future.
“A two-and-a-half acre property is not big by local standards, but it’s a lot of us.
“We built the guest house, Taylors of Berry in 2022, and every inch of this property has to be maintained the whole time.
“David’s big passion was the gardening and the landscaping, that’s the reason it looks so beautiful… but he hasn’t been able to it in recent years.
They’d done a major reno.
And added a guest house, Taylors of Berry.
“We’re looking at our lifestyle and what we need as we get older — we’re both in our sixties now — and we decided to simplify things and move on.”
He doesn’t want to reveal exactly where they’ve purchased, saying simply: “It’s a lovely old house dating back to 1916, a weatherboard cottage, very traditional which is perfect for David and I.”
The TV presenter, previously with The Block, said it would be “more a decorating reno than a stuctural reno …I’ve very familiar with those,” he laughed.
They’d originally thought their Bundewallah property would be their “forever home”, but “sometimes life has a way of catching you out and you end up changing direction”.
“While this beautiful home hasn’t been our forever home, we hope the next one will be, and we’re staying in this community, we love Berry, it’s a very supportive community,” Whitaker, who also owns a one-bedroom Sydney bolthole in Alexandria, said.
He couldn’t reveal the purchaser of the Bundewallah property, saying only it was a couple from Sydney’s north shore.
Sales agent Carrie Bond of Bond Lifestyle Properties had earlier confirmed to the Courier that the home had sold for about $4.5m a few weeks ago, before it could even hit realestate.com.au.
“It was all done very quickly,” she said.
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