Soho House – the global members-only hotel brand for “creatives” beloved of Hollywood stars including George Clooney, as well as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle – is moving to inner Sydney, after a consortium spent more than $20 million on a three-storey “island site” in Darlinghurst this week.

The Rich List Smorgon family-backed Trenerry Property Group and Kanat Group have acquired the 512-square-metre Sydney site at 256 Crown Street (a stone’s throw from Oxford Street) just weeks after finally ditching their plan to open Australia’s first-ever Soho House Club on the site of a lavish mansion in Melbourne’s South Yarra.