One of Darwin’s most beloved local families – known for their local businesses and one famous encounter with the late Prince and Duke of Edinburgh – is selling their seaside home on a rare plot of land.
The Haritos family is leaving their beachfront home in the Northern Territory to a new generation of buyers, with the listing the first in the street in 16 years.
The five-bedroom, two-bathroom house at 7 Larrakeyah Tce, Larrakeyah, has been owned by the family for more than 60 years, after they migrated from Greece more than a century ago.
The Haritos family have placed their beach home at 7 Larrakeyah Terrace, Larrakeyah, up for sale.
The family was known for taking Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, on a crocodile hunt up in Darwin.
The family became renowned for their work in a variety of businesses, with carpenter George Haritos making headlines for taking the late Prince Philip for a crocodile hunt.
The Larrakeyah property was bought by the family in the early 1960s on a crown-turned lease, which allowed them to buy the land if they were able to build a home there over the following years.
What they created became one of only 12 houses currently on the street, with other homes once owned by managers of various big banks.
The family migrated to Australia more than a hundred years ago, becoming renowned for saltworks, retail businesses and more throughout the decades.
George Haritos was known as a croc hunter in the 1940s and 1950s, made famous when taking the husband to the Queen on his own expedition.
The home was built by the family on the land they bought in the early 1960s.
The Haritos house has been placed on the market with Property Shop Darwin. Agent Tony ONeill said there had not been a sale for a property on the street since 2009.
“Three prominent Darwin families own six of the 12 homes fronting the harbour – and they are not sellers,” he said. “It’s a very tightly held street, and most people wouldn’t ever know it was there.”
The cul-de-sac was the former site of Darwin’s first-ever hospital, constructed in 1874 and used until World War II.
Only 12 homes are on the cul-de-sac street, with the last sale having been 16 years ago.
An on-site auction is expected to go ahead on April 1.
The property’s harbourfront location is at the natural curve of the street, a few steps from the nearby cliffside and a few minutes away from the CBD.
On a 1000sq m block, the two-storey house was built in the 1960s and structurally upgraded after Cyclone Tracy, with a 6x6m shed out the spacious back.
While the site has been well-maintained, its vendors fully expect its new owners to change it however they please, whether that is leaving the home as is, renovating or demolishing it for a new luxury house.
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