Brad Fittler sells Terrey Hills acreage for $12 million to Telstra chairman

Rugby league legendBrad Fittler and partnerMarie Liarris have scored a place among Sydney’s ultra-prestige homeowners thanks to the recent off-market sale of their Terrey Hills acreage for a suburb high of $12 million.

It’s an impressive sale result,even by the high standards of the current property boom,given the couple bought the 2.2-hectare property in 2014 for $3.1 million,although aerial photography indicates it has at least scored a few improvements and a new tennis court in the years since.

Taking the keys with no finance required isJacqueline Mullen,wife of Telstra chairmanJohn Mullen,with the couple already rumoured to be planning a rebuild of their own.

The Mullens haven’t done badly in the current market either. Their St Ives home on a battle-axe block of 4100 square metres,purchased in 1988 for $1.1 million,sold for $13 million as part of a site acquisition of five houses totalling $28.4 million by nursing home company Principal Healthcare Finance.

Meanwhile,the NSW Origin coach isn’t leaving the Forest. He and Liarris have bought the nearby home of art collectorTrevor Harvey and his wifeSkii for $8.225 million,sold by Christie’s Darren Curtis and Sydney Country Living’s Shayne Hutton.

Harvey House,as it is known,is on a slightly smaller 2.02 hectares,but comes with an array of features that sound more like something from a resort than a home. To quote the marketing,“lake-like dam”,“park-like grounds”,“resort-style pool”,art studio,stables,100-year-old barn,piano room and the Harvey House Gallery and Sculpture Space.

Taco look at this sale

Times are clearly good for the owners of burrito outlet Guzman y Gomez. Chief executiveSteven Marks upgraded his Tamarama home a year ago for $14 million and now his co-founderRobert Hazan has followed suit,buying Woollahra digs for the same amount.

Or rather,Hazan’s wifeBelinda Lacey has bought the contemporary three-bedroom terrace of Industrie Clothing co-founderSusie Kelly.

Woollahra locals are known for buying and selling exclusively among themselves,and Hazan and Kelly are no exception.

Kelly is taking her sale proceeds to nearby Rush Street,where she has paid $17 million for the architectRenato D’Ettorre-designed landmark house built byJason Camuglia.

And the Hazan-Lacey family have sold their former home across the road from their new digs. Central to the chain of sales is The Agency’s Ben Collier,who was asking $7 million for the Hazan-Lacey home before it sold. Collier won’t disclose the sale result,so we’ll have to wait for settlement to reveal if it doubled the $3.57 million they bought it for in 2015.

Hazan and Marks are childhood friends from New York and founded the Mexican fast-food giant in 2006 with a single outlet in Newtown that has since expanded globally to more than 150 stores.

Still with the Woollahra locals trading inside the neighbourhood,Goldman Sachs executive directorSilvana Williams has bought a $7.465 million house backing onto Cooper Park,again through Collier.

Expect to see the designer terrace on John Street she owns with her partner,Federation Asset management’sNeil Brown,hit the market soon.