Former home of Bill Shorten back on the market

Maynooth, the renovated Moonee Ponds family home which Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and his ex-wife, Debbie Beale, sold in 2008 after separating, has hit the market again.

In tree-lined Laura Street, near the Puckle Street shops and Moonee Ponds train station, the red-brick home with four bedrooms, two lounge rooms, a study and a pool house, is expected to sell for between $2.8 million and $3 million.

Shorten and Beale banked $1.75 million offloading Maynooth in December 2008. The politician moved to nearby Eglington Street, Moonee Ponds, with second wife Chloe (nee Bryce Parkin), whom he married in 2009 and had a daughter, Clementine, with.

Nelson Alexander’s Andrew Johnston, who represented Shorten and Beale nine years ago, is marketing Maynooth, which occupies an 843-square-metre plot in what is considered one of the area’s most exclusive streets. An auction is scheduled for May 18.