Gold Coast
Southport
B27-1/75 Brighton Parade
Auction
This four-bedroom, five-bathroom penthouse occupies 826 square metres over three floors of one of the Gold Coast's most desirable residential buildings, Rivage Royale. There's a private rooftop pool and sauna. It also comes with two marina berths. Queensland's draconian laws don't allow McGrath Broadbeach agents James Ledgerwood and John Natoli to give their opinion on a price for properties up for auction. All they can say is the neighbouring penthouse sold for $5,316,450 in 2007. A smaller penthouse at Xanadu East in Main Beach sold for $4.06 million last   May. The auction is on   November 18. 
Sydney
Birchgrove
91 Louisa Road
$8 million+
This just completed beautiful deep-waterfront home in the best street in Sydney's inner west offers so much it's hard to know where to start. Is it the direct views of the city and bridge? The Greg Natale-designed interiors and luxury finishes? The rooftop terrace? The pool? Or the 21-metre jetty and pen for your boat? "A 400-square-metre home in Birchgrove is a really substantial offering in terms of internal living space and it's been done to the highest possible standard," Cobden & Hayson principal Danny Cobden says. There are five bedrooms, four bathrooms and triple garaging.
Mornington Peninsula
Sorrento
3477 Point Nepean Road
$5 million+
This French Provincial palace only recently hit the market but Sotheby's International agent Patrick Sinn says he already has local and international interest. Just 90 minutes' drive from Melbourne's CBD, the five-bedroom, four-bathroom home on a 3800-square-metre block sits beyond cast iron gates and a long tree-lined driveway. Grand interiors and a heated self-cleaning 20-metre lap pool are among the attractions.
Melbourne
Hawthorn
9 Mary Street
$8.2 million+
A beautiful garden is just one of the attractions of Myrambeek, in one of the Grace Park Estate's best streets. With five bedrooms, four bathrooms and a study, the Victorian home has a floodlit tennis court and a swimming pool on the 1572-square-metre block. Kay & Burton's Sam Wilkinson is expecting the property to be popular with families. "The pool and court combination is a rarity in this area and the home is close to some of Melbourne's most prestigious schools," he says. "It also enjoys the preferred northerly orientation at the rear."