Lawyer who paid $3.7m for Byron Bay block reselling for $75m

The buyer will also be neighbours with Rip Curl co-founder Brian Singer, Afterpay co-founder Anthony Eisen, art dealer Steve Nasteski and Icebergs director Deke Miskin.

Singer bought the five-bedroom holiday home of recruitment industry boss Geoff Morgan and his wife Ros for $22 million in 2020, while Brett Whiteley dealer Nasteski snapped up the landmark Whalewatchers house for $12 million in 2019.

Eisen bought a second getaway on the prized strip for $23 million in 2023. He first joined the ranks of Wategos Beach home owners in 2018 when he bought a property known as The White House for $7.6 million from Boorowa farmer Charlie Arnott of the Arnott’s Biscuit family.

Will Phillips of Sotheby’s International Realty Byron Bay is accepting expressions of interest for the new mansion.

Waterfront family estate for sale

A waterfront family estate called Shalimar in Drummoyne is set to change hands, being offered to the market with a price guide of a cool $22 million.

The five-bedroom, three-bathroom grand residence on 3015 square metres was purchased by funds management executive Vasudha Jampala for $15.5 million in 2022, records show. The property was home to late businessman George Crowley before passing onto the McNiven family, owners of what was once Australia’s largest ice-cream manufacturer.

Jampala has restored the circa 1900s abode, bringing it into the 21st century. There’s ample space to entertain, with a grand billiards room, a tidal harbour pool with cabana and change rooms, a grass tennis court and private marina berth.

There are approved plans for a modern extension by architecture firm Carter Williamson and landscaping by Dangar Barin Smith.

The Agency’s co-founder Steven Chen is accepting expressions of interest and is also rumoured to have been behind Drummoyne’s record-breaking sale in December.

Settlement documents show business owners Ralph and Maria Mesiti bought a five-bedroom, four-bathroom house with a pool and jetty in Drummoyne, paying $28.95 million, a suburb record, in an off-market deal to property developer Brian Boyd.

The $28.95 million sale is both a house and unit record for Drummoyne. A house on Drummoyne Avenue sold for $16 million in 2021, while the Sydney Harbour penthouse in the new Central Element development fetched $14 million in December in a deal facilitated by the company’s head of sales, Cameron Porter.

Bellevue Hill trophy home changes hands

The Bellevue Hill garden estate owned by doctor Robert Talbot has sold for around the $17 million price guide, local sources have revealed.

Talbot graduated from the University of Sydney in 1957 with a bachelor of medicine and a bachelor of surgery.

A sold sticker on the listing indicated a sale prior to auction on February 24, with the sale price undisclosed.

Agents Di Wilkenfeld and Michael Pallier of Sydney Sotheby’s International Realty declined to comment on any aspect of the sale. The exact sale price and buyer’s identity will be revealed at settlement. Simon Cohen of Cohen Handler is rumoured to have represented the buyer, and also declined to comment.

The five-bedroom, three-bathroom, heritage-listed house on 1346 square metres was built in 1925 and underwent a renovation in 1939 by architect and professor Leslie Wilkinson.

Bedrooms are on the upper level, and there is a terraced lower garden with harbour views from Rose Bay to Mosman and Manly.

External shutters are charming, while interiors could do with a refresh: the kitchen is retro, the carpet is dated and the ceiling paint is peeling.

Pallier told this masthead during the campaign that some buyers wanted to live in the property as is, while others would knock down the garage and add a contemporary wing.