Settlement on the purchase comes amid speculation about Charlton’s real estate plans,after renovations organised for the 1970s house he bought for $1.95 million in North Parramatta last year were taking too long.
The Lennox is a 46-level building on the banks of the Parramatta River developed by Novm.Domain
The luxury sub-penthouse is in The Lennox tower set on the banks of the Parramatta River and developed by Novm,the property developer headed byAdrian Liaw that was previously a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed China Aoyuan Group.
Dr Andrew Charlton won the seat of Parramatta at last year’s federal election.Ben Appleton
Records show a Charlton family trust settled on the five-bedroom property for $1.93 million. The apartment on level 46 of the building,completed 18 months ago,comes with a communal swimming pool,gymnasium,BBQ area,function room and 24-hour security.
When the Oxford-educated economist and former advisor to then prime ministerKevin Ruddis not in residence in Parramatta,he has an alternate,$16 million home in Bellevue Hill,known as Fintry.
Techie Highlands takeover
The 1930s Bowral house was purchased by Mike Cannon-Brookes’ corporate interests for $3 million.Domain
Tech billionaireMike Cannon-Brookes is showing no signs of slowing down in his buy-up of Southern Highlands real estate,picking up an ornate 1930s house in Bowral for $3 million.
Mike Cannon-Brookes and his corporate interests are linked to more than $300 million worth of real estate.Olive + Maeve
The five-bedroom house in the heart of Bowral is chump change compared to the staggering sums usually paid by the co-founder of software giant Atlassian,whose NSW property portfolio totals more than $300 million.
Among Cannon-Brookes’s most pricey purchases are his in Point Piper,his,and more recent acquisitions like the $14 million Greyladyes Farm and $9.1 million Tintagel property,both also in the Southern Highlands.
Family matters
Corporate advisorCharles Carnegie and his sonNicholas have gone in together to buy the historic for $6 million from film and TV music producerAntony Partos.
Carara is an 1880s-built house in Potts Point that was saved by the green bans of the 1970s.Supplied
For Nicholas,aged in his 20s,it’s a first home purchase in Sydney,but not so for Carnegie snr,who is the son of mining legendSir Roderick Carnegie,and shares his Hunters Hill family home with wife,former Google boss-turned-ANZ senior executiveMaile Carnegie.
Charles Carnegie has paid $6 million for the house Carara.Dominic Lorrimer
The Carnegies’ newly purchased 1880s-built gentleman’s residence was sold at auction by Richardson&Wrench’s Jason Boon,after soaring land tax valuations prompted Partos to sell it.
The house was at risk of being demolished in the 1970s until saved by the green bans led by activistJuanita Nielsen,and was purchased by Partos and his Supersonic music production house partners in 2007.
Meanwhile,fintech entrepreneurIain Salteri,son of theKelly andRobert Salteri of the Tenix family,has listed his Paddington terrace.
Salteri,the chief of KttiPay,purchased the four-bedroom house in 2017 for more than $4 million from blogger and media commentator Renae Leith-Manos.
It returns to the market with a $4.25 million guide through BresicWhitney’s Maclay Longhurst.
Still with the progeny of the rich list,paralegalEmma Cottle had no need for a mortgage when she settled on a $5.3 million terrace in Paddington this week,walking distance from the Woollahra home of her pastoralist parentsKim andBen Cottle.
Millennial in action
There were eight registered bidders for the North Bondi semi of Clare and Tim Bowers,and it sold for $4,225,000.Domain
YachtieCooper Chapman,32,was not going to be outbid when he went to the auction of a North Bondi house on Thursday night,even if it meant going a good $100,000 above the reserve.
The founder of Chapman Yacht Management went head-to-head with seven other registered bidders for the three-bedroom semi,before a crowd of about 50 people,to see it sold for $4,225,000.
Ray White Double Bay’s Warren Ginsberg listed the house on behalf ofClare andTim Bowers,an investment advisor and director at boutique investment advisory Kennedy Partners.
High-rise prices
Shopping centre tycoonDai Yongge and his wifeZhang Xingmei are bowing out of Sydney’s property market after 20 years,listing their apartment inHarry Triguboff’s World Tower for $2.6 million.
Dai Yongge owns Reading FC with his sister Dai Xiu Li.Renhe Commercial
Dai co-owns English football club Reading FC and is a controlling major shareholder of Hong Kong-listed shopping mall developer China Dili.
Dai purchased the three-bedroom apartment on level 50 of the Meriton tower new in 2003 for $1.27 million. He added a Rose Bay house for $17.7 million in 2007,and sold it for $25 million toMu Li,son of billionaire car dealerLi Guoqiang.
Still with our international corporate high-fliers,former Citrix chief executiveKirill Tatarinov has bought into the Quay Grand at Circular Quay for $6.5 million.
Tatarinov,now vice chairman at Acronis,settled on the two-bedder after it was being marketed by Ayre Real Estate’s Craig Donohue. The apartment last traded 18 months earlier for $4.9 million.
Bronte bounce
Almost a year to the day that F45 co-founderRob Deutsch sold his Bronte home at auction for $17.7 million,it has been put back up for auction with a $20 million guide.
Ray White Double Bay’s Elliott Placks listed the beachside house on behalf ofGeorge Ajaka,a managing partner of investments at theWhite family’s White&Partners.
Ajaka is heading to Double Bay,where sources say he has bought into the Encore development.