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Firies free couple trapped by tree By BRET CHRISTIAN
“The SES volunteers were just incredible, risking danger themselves. “Just the most incredible bang, They came back several times to we looked up and the enormous make sure everything was all right.” One neighbour about to leave on tree was down,” said a shocked owner of a two-storey Peppermint a trip offered Christian and Russell their house for two weeks. Grove home. “It’s just so lovely when something Christian Lyon and his husband Russell Date were home in Forrest like this happens – people are just Street late on Sunday afternoon when so kind and so committed to helpnoise from the high winds was sud- ing,” he said. “It’s very humbling and reassurdenly drowned out by the crash of the 100-year-old lemon-scented gum tree. ing, sort of restored my waning faith “A tree falls in on your house, you during such troubled times.” He said that despite the size and tend to become very disordered,” weight of the tree, said Christian, a estimated at more popular interior dethan 20 tonnes, engisigner to the western neers said there was suburbs. no structural damage “I actually thought to the house, just cosit was an enormous metic damage. clap of thunder, and The couple were looked up. I was back living inside working in the sitting by mid-week, with room at the front of tarpaulins placed to the house, and my keep out rain. husband was in the, Most of the tree’s in the entrance.” Russell Date, left, and Christian They were trapped Lyon at the sale of the design weight was taken by retaining walls and inside the house, the studio Editeur. limbs that speared tree’s limbs jammed against the garage door and one into the ground. “It was a ridiculous piece of chopenetrating the front door. “We’re incredibly grateful for reographed engineering,” Christian the instant response from the fire said. “A bizarre turn of fate, really. “It’s devastating that we’re also brigade,” Christian said. “They were there within 10 now dealing with the loss of that minutes of the call, which was just beautiful tree, that provided so phenomenal, because initially we much canopy to the street. “It was heart-wrenching seeing couldn’t get out of the house.” Firefighters cut away branches that having to go through a woodfrom the garage door to enable the chipper, but also out of this has come a real kind of optimism in terms of couple to exit. They were overwhelmed by the how kind people have been.” He urged local people to join their kindness of neighbours, friends, firefighters and Mosman Park State local SES teams that did an amazEmergency Services volunteers, who ing job but were running short of volunteers (Heroes in orange to the were quickly on the scene. “It really does show the better side rescue, POST, May 30). of human nature,” Christian said. n More storm coverage pages 16-17
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Tree loppers puzzle over removal of the remains of the 100-year-old lemon scented gum tree that fell on this Forrest Street house on Sunday evening.
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Soaring top-end house prices in the western suburbs appear to be driven in part by investors directing their cash to their own tax-free homes.
Local agents report they expect luxury home sales prices to remain strong and may even further increase, following Capital Gains Tax changes announced in the Federal Budget. Peppermint Grove’s median house sales price rose by 61% to $6.3million in the past year. according to data from the Real Estate Institute of WA that showed significant growth in top-end real estate. Mosman Park recorded 33% growth in the same period, with the median price reaching $2.97million, while City Beach reached a median sales price of $3.93million, up 28%, and Claremont grew 25% to $2.58million. Agent Jim Hall of Mack Hall Real Estate said: “The Government isn’t trying to hide they want to disincentivise
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Ten million dollars bought waterfront views on a 1217sq.m block at Johnson Street, Mosman Park. owning multiple dwellings for Street, Cottesloe; and $6.375million for 43 Hensman Road, investment purposes. “The flip side is a shift towards Subiaco. Justin Wallace of Wallace Real investing more into your princiEstate said he thought the CGT ple [CGT-free] residence.” Recent top end sales include changes could have a positive $12.6million paid for a home at 41 effect on the luxury market. “While it’s too early to tell, the Saunders Street in Mosman Park; $10million for 2 Johnson Street, changes could push up high-end Mosman Park; $6.85million for property prices,” he said. “Buyers may allocate more 17A Keane Street, Peppermint money into the family home Grove; $7million for 16 Venn as it remains a tax efficient porteous.com.au porteous.com.au Street, Peppermint Grove; $7.1million for 1 Clarendon • Please turn to page 64
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