For a bit of perspective,consider that Seervai paid just in 2020 before it was resold by Ray White’s Geoff Smith. And Grant paid $11 million in 2018 but before it was listed by Atlas’s Michael Coombs.
And this week there was an $18 million off-market sale of the Balmoral slopes home ofJacqueline andRiaan De Jager,co-founder of igaming intelligence platform DeepCI.
A Corben Architects-redesign on behalf of Sonia Kruger and Craig McPherson won an MBA award for “alterations and additions in 2022Atlas
All up,there are at least 13 sales in the ultra-prestige range already this year,which is not lost on local Gold Logie Award-winning television presenterSonia Kruger and her husband,Seven’s director of news and public affairsCraig McPherson.
In the wake of the De Jager sale – for almost three times the $6.6 million they paid for it in 2017 –agent Michael Coombs has ushered a few high-end shoppers through the Kruger-McPherson designer digs a few doors down the road.
Sonia Kruger is the host of Big Brother,The Voice and Dancing With the Stars.Supplied
What’s more,Kruger’s five-bedroom residence has been slipped onto the Atlas website,showing off the Corben Architects-redesign that won an MBA award for alterations and additions in 2022 and includes such add-ons as an infinity swimming pool,studio,internal lift and separate guest quarters.
MacPherson and Kruger,who hosts reality TV seriesBig Brother,The Voice andDancing With the Stars,purchased the house in 2015 for $6.475 million when they made the move from the Upper North Shore.
Also hoping to ride Mosman’s high-end market slipstream isJustine Forbes,the eldest daughter of billionaireBob Ell.
Forbes has owned her Federation home,Athol,since 2017,paying $8.1 million when she moved there from her former home just two doors away.
Athol is a five-bedroom Federation house in Mosman owned by Justine Forbes,of the billionaire Ell family.Domain
With downsizing plans,Forbes has listed it with The Agency’s Claudia Portale with a guide of $14 million-$15 million.
High-tech buys
Senior tech executiveJessica Oppetit has purchased her first Sydney home,paying $12.3 million cash for a P&O-style house on oceanfront reserve at Clovelly.
The Clovelly property sold for $12.3 million to Flipdish chief operating officer Jessica Oppetit.Domain
Oppetit has done well in tech since she took up a consulting role at Apple a decade ago. After four years at London’s on-demand shuttle service tech company Via she joined Irish tech unicorn Flipdish,an online ordering system that in 2022 scored a $US100 million investment led by Chinese conglomerate Tencent.
Records show that Oppetit,daughter of entrepreneur and former Godfreys chief executiveTom Krulis,bought the six-bedroom property overlooking Gordons Bay through PPD’s Alexander Phillips.
Trophy homemakers
As star cricketersAlyssa HealyandMitchell Starc took the keys to their,luxury home builderDarren Mills and his wifeSimone have landed on their new digs.
Alyssa Healy and Mitchell Starc purchased Charlotte Park at Terrey Hills for $24 million.Domain
Mills,who co-founded Cadence and Co,has paid $8 million cash for a 1.6 hectare property at the end of McCarrs Creek Road amid expectations of another trophy home project slated for the site.
The Mills family’s former home,Charlotte Park – and childhood home to their son,Swans captainCallum Mills – smashed all Forest District records when it sold late last year.
Among last year’s big-ticket sellers hatching plans for a repeat performance on the trophy home market are pastoralistsRobert andCamilla Cropper.
The unrenovated terrace in Paddington sold to Camilla and Robert Cropper for $9 million at auction.Domain
The couple sold their Bellevue Hill house after a redesign by architectLuigi Rosselli for $39.35 million,making good on the $5.64 million they’d paid for it a decade ago.
According to an independent local source,they have bought in Paddington,paying $9 million for an ultra-wide terrace with a 7.6 metre frontage and rear stables.
Sold under the hammer through McGrath’s Georgia Cleary for the estate ofJennifer Cobcroft,the terrace is expected to be another major home redesign project for the Croppers.
Prestige doer-upper
Criminal defence lawyerMonique Tran and her partnerTrevor Lam look to be planning a Bellevue Hill upgrade judging by their recent purchase of a house nestled among the suburb’s finest homes,such as the Rona estate and Queen Anne Revival-style mansion Caerleon.
The three-bedroom house of Anderson Stuart family sold under the hammer for $11.6 million.McGrath Paddington
The somewhat tired three-bedroom house last traded in 1961 when bought by the latePeter Anderson Stuart,and was listed for $10 million by McGrath’s Luke Hogan and Georgia Cleary.
A well-placed source said Tran and Lam were among five registered parties at the auction,which started at $8 million. The hammer fell on a bid of $11.6 million.