{"id":29185,"date":"2020-11-18T12:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T23:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=29185"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T23:27:43","slug":"some-of-sydneys-most-tightly-held-properties-are-up-for-grabs-thanks-to-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/some-of-sydneys-most-tightly-held-properties-are-up-for-grabs-thanks-to-covid-19-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of Sydney\u2019s most tightly held properties are up for grabs thanks to COVID-19 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Paul Saintilan and Carolyn Hardy are selling their apartment in Coogee to move to Queensland.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Peter Rae<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Music industry chief executive Paul Saintilan and his partner Carolyn have lived in their huge three-bedroom apartment at Coogee beach<\/a> for 14 years and never imagined leaving.<\/p>\n

Indeed, vacancies only usually come up in their six-unit block when an owner dies.<\/p>\n

But now the couple have decided, as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, to make a sea change to Queensland, and have just put their home on the market.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my favourite place in the world, and I never thought of moving away,\u201d said Carolyn, the chief executive of a not-for-profit.<\/p>\n

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Paul Saintilan and his partner Carolyn never imagined they\u2019d leave Coogee but they\u2019ve decided to relocate to the Gold Coast \u2013 which means their property, a \u2018rare gem\u2019 has hit the market. Photo: Supplied<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBut my family are in Queensland and I think the pandemic made us all realise the importance of family and how you no longer need to work in an office in the city any more.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the pandemic seeing sea-changers and tree-changers quit some of the most popular areas of Sydney to live elsewhere, it\u2019s creating great opportunities for buyers to snap up the kind of homes that rarely hit the market.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir apartment in Coogee is pretty unique in its 122-square-metre size, its light, its aspect and being right on the Coogee dance floor,\u201d said their agent Carl Wilson of Home Estate Agents. \u201cNormally, something like this would rarely come up.<\/p>\n

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