Jackie O splashes big bucks on house as Armytage sells up
The changing fortunes of two of Sydney’s highest profile female media personalities became the talk of the real estate market last week as Jackie ‘O’ Henderson and Samantha Armytage cast the dice in the Sydney market.
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THE changing fortunes of two of Sydney’s highest profile female media personalities became the talk of the real estate market last week as Jackie ‘O’ Henderson and Samantha Armytage cast the dice in the Sydney market.
In Woollahra, Henderson outlaid $11 million for a chic and private, luxury five-bedroom home designed by Nick Tobias.
The purchase comes two years after the KIIS FM presenter split with her husband Lee Henderson.
The couple sold their Cambridge Ave Vaucluse house for $6.675 million in March.
Henderson’s purchase of the new property, with heated pool, guest accommodation and Myles Baldwin-designed garden, represents a $6 million hike on a house the radio personality previously inspected in Vaucluse, where she had hopes to remain with her daughter Kitty.
After negotiating a monster pay hike to remain at KIIS — on about $7 million a year — Henderson was in a position to substantially re-evaluate her budget.
Meanwhile, on Friday, Sunrise presenter Samantha Armytage listed her North Bondi semi after reducing her professional commitment to Channel 7 by 20 per cent and accepting an equivalent pay cut.
Having paid $2.15 million for the three-bedroom house in 2014, agents have $2.8 million on the property which sits on 358sqm of land and has full security.
Armytage, who is on about $400,000 at Seven, is now on the lookout for a Sydney apartment that will offer even greater privacy.
Speculation is rife the Sunrise host has plans to move in with her new fiancee Richard Lavender in the Southern Highlands.
An ascendant Natalie Barr, meanwhile, the woman now
co-hosting two weekday shifts at Sunrise, bought a renovated 1920s home in Mosman at the end of 2019 for about $2.8 million.