Inside Chrissie Swan’s $2.5m+ Hawthorn East property sale

Radio and television queen Chrissie Swan has farewelled her quirky mid-century Hawthorn East pad for more than $2.5m.

Swan will host a revamped version of the nineties’ lifestyle show Healthy, Wealthy & Wise on Channel 7 that’s set to air later this month.

She also presents The Chrissie Swan Show on radio station Nova FM.

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After placing as runner-up on reality TV show Big Brother’s 2003 season, Swan went on to host or co-host programs including The Circle, The Great Australian Spelling Bee, Would I Lie To You Australia and The Project.

In 2011, Swan won the Logie Awards’ Most Popular New Female Talent, and was nominated for the Most Popular TV Presenter and Gold Logie gongs.

She came third in 2015’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! and appeared in 2021’s Celebrity MasterChef Australia.

In May, Swan listed the Federation-era property that’s configured into two separate residences with $2.6m-$2.86m price hopes.

The home at Mayston St has since sold for a sum which industry sources put at just below the range’s lower end.

Swan renovated the address herself after purchasing it three years ago.

She named the main three-bedroom house featuring original teak timber panelling and floor-to-ceiling windows ‘Judy’ after the iconic Hollywood actor and singer Judy Garland.

The two-bedroom residence to the rear is named ‘Liza’ after Judy’s daughter, Academy Award-winning actor and singer Liza Minnelli known for the 1972 film Cabaret and the 1977 movie New York, New York directed by Martin Scorsese.

Swan filmed an online video for the home’s sales campaign with presenter, MC and marriage celebrant Shura Taft, in which she told him that houses needed names because they were “a member of the family”.

In the clip, Swan described the abode, which had undergone a circa-1950s upgrade, as “completely original” when she bought.

“I actually just walked in and thought, ‘Oh look, I’ll just pull up the carpets and polish the boards and then that will make all the difference’,” she said in the video.

“Then the more time I spent in here, the more I fell in love with it and the more I thought, ‘I’ve really got to do a great job here, I’ve really got to do her justice’.”

Swan demolished a bank of cupboards and removed an “ancient creaky oven” in Judy’s kitchen, then added blue and white wallpaper in the living and dining area.

Other individual touches include plant-and-animal patterned wallpaper in one of the bedrooms and a “dramatic exit” sign above a doorway.

The home was listed through Whitefox’s Ellie Morish.

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