PANORAMA HOUSE: MELBOURNE’S $16M BAYSIDE MASTERPIECE ON THE MARKET
Panorama House is where contemporary art meets bayside luxury. This award-winning five-bedroom Middle Park home boasts panoramic Port Phillip Bay views.
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Part contemporary art gallery, part bayside mansion, Panorama House is a landmark Melbourne home without parallel.
The award-winning Middle Park house is the dream home of self-tan mogul, Kirstie Kirkham, who founded MineTan Body Skin a decade ago.
Now the beauty empire boss has listed her unrivalled residence for $15.9 million to $16.3 million with Kay & Burton director Andrew Sahhar and Danielle Horne alongside co-agent Hugh Jones of Agency Outcomes.
Kirkham is apparently moving on after reportedly paying more than $30 million for the Toorak home of hospitality industry couple Robert and Elizabeth Zagame.
On the corner of bustling Beaconsfield Pde and tree-lined Harold St, the five-bedroom Middle Park property took home two accolades in the 2025 Australian Interior Design Awards; Residential Decoration and Residential Design Best of State (Victoria).
Panorama House, so named thanks to its expansive 270-degree Port Phillip Bay and city views, has appeared in Vogue Living magazine, Yellowtrace, Est and Living Etc.
Melbourne-based interior designer Sally Knibbs of Sally Caroline studio was commissioned to transform the 2018 home built by Visioneer, which Kirkham bought in 2022 from Computershare co-founder Penelope Maclagan for $11.5 million.
Behind its unique raw brick and steel facade, luxury materials are abundant including Travertine Pewter, Green Onyx, and Calacatta marbles including, Romano, Verde, Corchia, Tanotti Green, and Menta.
Surrounded by a sea of traditional yet classically renovated Federation bungalows, the 21st century building is a statement piece in a coveted waterfront location. The home’s own website declares it is a “design that does’t shout. It simply belongs.”
From the ground up, the three-level floor plan makes use of every square centimetre on the 423sq m corner block.
The spacious basement car park offers the homeowner a four-car garage, made possible thanks to a sleek turntable. Underground amenities also include a cellar with wine fridge and a meat dry ager, plus a home gym.
One level up and the ground floor is home to a vast open plan entertaining zone combining a lounge area and wet bar that spills out to an internal landscaped courtyard with retractable roof.
Two bedrooms and two bathrooms, plus a large family-friendly laundry, also sit on the same entry level.
A private lift connects all three layouts with the first floor featuring more everyday entertaining spaces.
A large lounge room is warmed by an Oblica fireplace and frames beach views, while the sophisticated chef’s kitchen has Gaggenau and Sub-Zero appliances, a statement island bench, and a walk-in pantry. The formal dining room has its own dramatic sweeping CBD backdrop.
In the palatial main bedroom suite there is a walk-in wardrobe, a double shower ensuite, as well as access to the private barbecue terrace. A neighbouring glass-walled office has an inspiring panorama of the bay.
Added extras at Panorama House include a Tesla home battery, solar energy integration, and provisions for a pool.
While the bay is on the doorstep, the Beaconsfield Pde home is also close to St Kilda, Armstrong St and Victoria Ave eateries, Albert Park, and loads of city-bound transport.
Co-agents Kay & Burton Bayside and Agency Outcomes are marketing Panorama House via in expressions of interest campaign, closing on September 15, at 5pm
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The imposing stone structures, with towers, turrets and a hot tub room, lord over the landscape near the mountain resort town of Sandpoint.
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Idaho is not a place that’s often associated with Medieval castles, but a pair have just hit the market for $6.25 million.
The imposing stone structures have towers, turrets, ramparts, arrow-slit windows and even a drawbridge, and might just be the most authentic-looking castles this side of the Atlantic.
“Who expects to see a castle like this in Idaho?” said listing agent Brenda Burk of Coldwell Banker Schneidmiller Realty, who brought the property to the market last week. They are, she said, “extremely unusual.”
Schweitzer Castle and Château de Melusine, as they’re known, stand within Schweitzer Mountain Resort in the Selkirk Mountains and overlook the nearby mountain resort town of Sandpoint. They take in panoramic views of Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho’s largest lake.
The pair of ski-in/ski-out homes each have three bedrooms, two bathrooms and three stories, Burk explained. They are “so authentic,” she said. “Every single stone was handlaid.”
Schweitzer Castle, she said, wasn’t built for “functionality,” but has been modernized and adapted and now has everything a 21st-century residence requires, along with a dungeon, which for some buyers may also be a requisite.
The chateau, meanwhile, has a hot tub room with mountain views, as well as a garage.
The property is being sold furnished, and will come complete with the hand-carved statues, armor, mounted swords, stained-glass windows and a host of antiques dating to the 15th and 16th centuries.
The owner, an antique collector who couldn’t be reached for comment, “is always looking for that hidden jewel and he found that here,” Burk said.
The next custodian is likely to stem from a varied pool of buyers, Burk said, that would include “the trophy-home buyer, someone who can say ‘I own a castle.’”
The property could also appeal to someone looking for a vacation home, or a multi-generational estate, and beyond that “there’s the dreamers,” she said. “We definitely try to market to people who like Medieval history or maybe do Renaissance fairs.”
The seller “really wants it to go to someone with the same passion.”
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