Mosmanites trading places
It was no surprise to see the Mosman designer home of Surfection founderChris Athas and his wifeAmanda hit the market on Friday given last week’s revelation the couple have purchased down the hill by the beach for well over $20 million.
The couple’s new digs at Balmoral is expected to be a major rebuild once they settle on the purchase,given their penchant for top-notch home redesigns,as evidenced by the house they’re now selling.
The Athases bought their home on Hopetoun Avenue for just shy of $4 million in 2001 and soon after commissioned a Burley Katon Halliday-designed house set across four levels with all the bells and whistles. Think 1400-bottle cellar,gymnasium and terrazzo-heated flooring in the four-car garage.
There were selling plans in 2018 for $17.5 million,soon after investment banker and Sydney Swans chairmanAndrew Pridham set a then-suburb high of $25 million buying the renovator’s delight known as Hopetoun across the road.
Since then,Mosman has scored a few $30 million-plus deals,of which the top is the $33 million paid for a house high on Balmoral slopes by the billionaire pharmaceuticalStruengmann family.
Brendan Warner,of Raine&Horne Mosman,has set a $28 million to $30 million guide.
Melbourne-bound
Goldman Sachs’ head of Corporate Debt Capital Markets, Joe Hunt,sold his Cremorne home ahead of this week’s scheduled auction for about $8.5 million,given talk of a move to Melbourne.
Ray White Lower North Shore’s Bernard Ryan had a bullish $8 million guide,given a total redesign of the residence since Hunt purchased it in 2021 for $4.87 million.
Mordant’s public appeal
Investment banker and arts philanthropistSimon Mordant and his wifeCatriona have abandoned their bid to sell their Clareville weekender on the quiet,instead launching it on property portals this week with a record-setting guide of $15 million to $16 million.
BJ Edwards,of LJ Hooker Palm Beach,was until recently quietly offering it to buyers,a few months after he sold the slow-mover along the shoreline of tech entrepreneurSimon Clausen for a high of $14.6 million to Histopath pathology co-ownersDr StephenandDr Elizabeth Mann.
The Mordants had commissioned a high-spec Tanner Architects residence more than 12 years ago,having purchased the property in 1999 for $1.8 million from art consultantVivienne Sharpe.
Erskineville kiss off
In Erskineville,New Zealand Warriors chairmanKen Reinsfield is selling the landmark 1930s converted warehouse known for its big lips on the facade.
Reinsfield,who competed as a wrestler for New Zealand in the 1984 Olympics,is taking it to auction on May 25 through CobdenHayson’s Ben Southwell and The Agency’s Brad Gillespie.
Reinsfield set a suburb high when he purchased the iconic digs in 2021 for $3.6 million from production managerGrant Pudig.