The couple’s relationship was indeed turned into a screenplay by Raftopoulos and Dave Peterson,and the movie,Take My Hand,filmed and directed by Raftopoulos earlier this year,co-produced by Jensz,and starsRadha Mitchell,Adam Demos andNatalie Bassingthwaite.
It tells the story of a young Australian woman working in London with a seemingly perfect marriage that falls apart after she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. When a tragic accident leaves her a widowed mother to three sons,she returns home and is reunited with a high school friend who has loved her since they were teenagers. So sweet.
As filming was taking place in front of the camera,behind it the couple had only recently completed a total rebuild of their Wategos Beach home (purchased in 2018 for $4.1 million) to a design by architectHarley Graham.
The couple listed the three-level residence with an internal lift,pool,spa and gymnasium with Byron Bay’s Real Estate’s Liam Annesley,who is clearly planning to top the previous suburb high of by Afterpay’sAnthony Eisen.
Bridges’ return
Fitness queen Michelle Bridges has returned to the eastern suburbs’ property market after her three-year sojourn to the Southern Highlands,buying a house in Rose Bay.
The four-bedroom house with a swimming pool had a $6 million guide through Ray White Double Bay’s recently appointed co-principal Warren Ginsberg and colleague Claudia Brunker,and sold on Friday for $6.25 million.
An independent source revealed the purchase by Bridges,a high-profile reality television identity who from 2007 to 2015 was a trainer on Ten’sThe Biggest Loser with her former partner Steve “Commando” Willis.
Bridges sold her Kangaloon home in July after an almost six-month campaign that started with $7 million hopes and ended soon after the guide was revised to $4.25 million.
Her former Sydney home was an apartment in the Pomeroy building in Potts Point that she sold in 2020 for $6.4 million.
The $10 million market
Tech investorTony Davis and his wifeSandra have emerged as the $10.36 million buyers of the Bondi Beach apartment of the late art collector and trophy home trader.
Davis is already familiar with the Pacific building,having purchased an apartment downstairs for $6 million two years ago.
Davis is the former chair and a founding director of Australia’s oldest and largest data science group Quantium,for which Woolworths coughed up $223 million for a majority stake two years ago.
Davis had purchased the apartment on a delayed settlement after it was sold by The Agency’s Edward Reid and Steven Chen in conjunction with Raine&Horne’s Ric Serrao.
Schaeffer had paid $7 million for it in 2016,but died in a tragic accident four years later.
Hunters Hill’s motorcycle set
Still with the $10 million apartment market,in Hunters Hill,John Cassen and his wife Julie have bought the Pulpit Point apartment of liquor licensee Michael David and his wife Rosalie for $9.8 million.
Cassen and his brother Rod sold their large motorcycle accessories business for $123 million to ASX-listed dealership MotorCycle Holdings in 2017.
David,of the David grocery family,had listed the apartment with BresicWhitney’s Nicholas McEvoy in March with a $7.3 million guide,only to see it sell at a well-attended auction.
Siddle’s beachside buy
Charlotte Siddle,the daughter of Ramsay Healthcare chairman Michael Siddle,is the hot tip to have bought the Tamarama home of professional executive director Christine Holman and her husband,Haben Property Fund’s Gavin Holman.
The Agency’s Ben Collier won’t confirm Siddle is the buyer,saying only that the Thompson Street house had a $12.5 million guide before it sold at auction for $13.55 million.
The Woolwich-based Siddle snr was for decades the right-hand man to businessman and philanthropistPaul Ramsay before he died in 2014 from a heart attack,and bequeathed $200 million from his estate to the Siddles.
Siddle snr is set to step down as chairman of Australia’s largest private hospital operator in November,although will remain on the board when former Telstra bossDavid Thodey steps into his role.