Michelle Bridges settles Potts Point apartment sale for $6.4 million
Fitness guru Michelle Bridges has had a tough few months but after selling her Potts Point apartment earlier this year, she has finally settled with the new owners — and how much she sold it for has been revealed.
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The Potts Point apartment of the fitness guru Michelle Bridges has been settled, with the price revealed as a bullish $6.4 million.
The Macleay St Pomeroy apartment sold off-market earlier this year, with its settlement occurring earlier this month.
“Moving forward,” she told her social media followers.
Bridges continues production of her five-minute Big W sponsored cardio videos for lockdown, the most recent being viewed 60,000 times.
Bridges, who has a $2.7 million Kangaloon, Southern Highlands home, held the apartment in her own name.
It was bought in 2013 with then business manager and husband Bill Moore for $2.9 million. They split after nine years of marriage in 2013.
Bridges later shared the abode with Steve “Commando” Willis, her Biggest Loser colleague, until their estrangement, which emerged early this year. It was once owned by interior designers Marco Meneguzzi and Michael Love.
The apartment has been bought by Prue and Simon Perrott. He spent 30 years in investment banking including ABM Amro. The couple had previously rented in the complex, after selling in Mosman for $7.85 million.
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Pomeroy’s latest listing is by the former Future Fund member Susan Doyle and her husband, the former Barclays boss Richard Douglas, who also moved in after selling in Mosman for $7.1 million.
They bought for $4.25 million from the music industry executive Janine Ashton in 2017 after local Richardson & Wrench agent Jason Boon took 358 days to find his buyers.
Boon told Mark Bouris’s Straight Talk podcast that he’s just had his third-best month in 15 years in commission take. But he expressed doubt on the suburb’s future.
“I don’t even know how to explain the capital gains in Potts Point. Everyone keeps ringing me back and wanting more each time and I keep on getting it … but it’s going to end … it’s got to stop,” he said.
TRAVEL LIMITS TRIGGER FAMILY’S HOME PURCHASE
Burradoo House, the recently upgraded 1920s residence in the Southern Highlands, has been sold by tourism entrepreneur Rose Deo, whose $5.38 million purchase in 2017 ranked as the highest price paid in Burradoo.
The listing has been a $2000 a night holiday letting on Matt Fleming’s Contemporary Hotels Group website.
The buyers of the English-style country house, from Sydney’s north shore, recently visited as a family for the day. Nestled on one hectare of parkland gardens originally designed by Claude and Isobel Crowe, Burradoo House has six bedrooms, four bathrooms, a library and a two-storey glass conservatory.
Its onsite caretaker had organised fresh flowers throughout the house, lit candles, ensured the underfloor heating was on and that the fireplaces were laid so they were ready to be lit on the family’s 7.30am arrival. The 1927 grand period home has interiors by Coco Republic.
They were “absolutely bewitched” by the experience and it sealed the deal, Knight Frank agent Deborah Cullen said.
She added that the coronavirus lockdown had led many of her clients to re-evaluate how they spend their family holidays as they now realise that international travel will not be possible for the foreseeable future.
No word on whether Deo secured her desired fresh record price, but the nearby heritage-listed Anglewood House has hit the market with $8.25 million hopes.
Owned by the businessman Valdis Berzins since 1998, the 13-bedroom, nine-bathroom Queen Anne arts and craft residence was constructed in 1890 for Arthur Smith, secretary of public works in the Sir Henry Parkes government.
POD PURCHASE BEFORE CLOVELLY PRICE COLLAPSE
Architect Paul Buljevic from PBD Architects and his wife Marijana now call the Clovelly project that appeared on ABC’s Grand Designs series their home.
It fetched $7 million through the Phillips Pantzer Donnelley agency, who had a $6.5 million price guide.
The sale settled late last month, but exchanged in early March just before the lockdown onset of COVID-19 when the estate agency reported there’d been a quick 10 to 15 per cent price fall by mid-April.
The agency sent shockwaves with its forecast that coastal prestige prices would fall another 10 to 20 per cent — and not recover for five to seven years.
The Clovelly home was featured in Grand Designs Australia in 2012 when constructed in Melbourne as four modules.
The pods were trucked by convoy to Sydney and lifted into position to create the uber-modern, two-storey residence. Now featuring a jet-black exterior, the zinc and timber clad customised home has four bedrooms and a home office.
It was architectural firm Pleysier Perkins who designed the home, which last sold for $6 million in 2017 to car dealer Steve Nasteski.