Lucy Macken
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia
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From a $95m house to gold mine woes and a broken marriage in three years
It’s been an eventful three years since John Li purchased one of the country’s most expensive houses. → Read More
Freight boss buys $61.5 million mansion to make Bellevue Hill return
Freight boss Arthur Tzaneros has purchased the $61.5 million Bellevue Hill mansion of his ex-neighbour, less than a year after he moved to Vaucluse. → Read More
Afterpay’s Anthony Eisen buys $23 million Byron Bay house
The fintech entrepreneur already owned one of the dozen houses fronting Byron Bay’s Wategos Beach before he added a second one on Wednesday. → Read More
North Bondi fintech entrepreneur lists $25 million clifftop home
Sydney’s ultra rich are feeling lucky judging by the slew of trophy homes for sale for sums that the neighbours would once have thought impossible. → Read More
Pauline Hanson cashes in on Maitland pub for $1.1 million
The Queensland senator took the opportunity to slam the government for cost of living pressures, even as her investment had doubled in value. → Read More
The $70 million home built by a tech entrepreneur who never lived in it
Patrick Grove’s Darling Point trophy home is on offer; King Charles III’s family friend, Lady Marina Dawson-Damer, lists in Bronte; and renovation queen Cherie Barber shoots for $9 million in Lilyfield. → Read More
China’s Yunnan Tin cans $11 million Wahroonga trophy estate, doubles money on way out
One of the world’s largest tin producers has struck gold in Wahroonga this week, actor Sophie Lee lists her Palm Beach getaway, and Mike Baird buys a $5 million downsizer. → Read More
Steve Smith puts designer Vaucluse pad up for grabs
If the Aussie Test legend ever tires of cricket, he’d do well as a home renovation flipper. → Read More
E-sports gaming entrepreneurs go on $143 million property spree
Sydney property is often touted as a safe place to invest money, which – judging by their recent spree – won’t be news to esports gaming entrepreneurs Michael and Jack Wu. → Read More
Steven Bradbury times his run perfectly with Kings Beach pad
Olympic gold medallist Steve Bradbury is renowned for his good timing, so it’s not surprising that at the height of Queensland’s property boom his former weekender on the Sunshine Coast has hit the market. → Read More
Fairfax flips $15m Vaucluse house after DA approval next door
Just a year after he and wife Kate bought a Spanish mission-style house for $14.95 million, they have put it back up for sale without moving in. → Read More
Roy Medich buys historic Berrima farm for $50m
The Medich’s newly acquired Mereworth property makes up about 40 per cent of Hume Coal’s 1300 hectare aggregation. → Read More
Labor’s Tim Murray juggles battle for Wentworth with house sale campaign
Just weeks out from the federal election Labor’s candidate for Wentworth Tim Murray has listed his Tamarama home. → Read More
You’ve read the book, now buy the house (where it was written): Anna Funder lists home
There is no shortage of stand-out homes in Sydney, but few can claim to have produced a Miles Franklin award in the studio above the back garage. It’s yours for $3.5 million as author Anna Funder trades up. → Read More
Bob Lapointe’s iconic Muskoka Farm up for sale for $25 million
One of the most pre-eminent properties in Australian racing has come to market, with facilities used by the likes of top trainers Gai Waterhouse, Chris Waller and Peter Snowden. → Read More
Why there are so few Sydney trophy homes on the market
It took just a few top-end sales to run down stock levels of our most expensive homes, leaving buyers with a few tens of millions to spend on their next house with nothing to buy. → Read More
Hawkins finds buyer for $30m Whale Beach mansion, when finished
Jennifer Hawkins and Jake Wall have barely begun building their next luxury mansion on the Whale Beach clifftop than they look to have already found a buyer. → Read More
Ainsworth pokie machine family show the house always wins
The billionaire Ainsworth family is best known for its pokie machine empire, the proceeds of which first landed Len Ainsworth on the rich list almost 30 years ago. But family matriarch Gretel Ainsworth scored an altogether different claim to riches this week. → Read More
Shark Tank star banks $1 million a year on Double Bay digs
Celebrity businessman Andrew Banks owned his Double Bay investment digs less than four years, but still managed to see it jump in value almost $4 million in that time. → Read More
David Wenham exits Potts Point stage left, looks to pocket $6m on way out
David Wenham has been one of Potts Point’s most high-profile locals for more than 25 years, but not for much longer. The veteran actor has listed his Macleay Regis pad for $6 million. → Read More