Isla Fisher’s post-divorce setback
Almost six months after she split from husband Sacha Baron Cohen, Hollywood star Isla Fisher has copped a post-divorce blow.
Hollywood star Isla Fisher pulled her Woollahra apartment from its scheduled weekend auction, and has dropped its price guidance.
The elevated rear position apartment on the Wallis and Ocean St corner hit the market with $1m hopes, but now the guidance is $900,000.
It is the only property in Sydney Fisher has ever had, bought when she was 20 and appearing on television screens as Shannon Reed at Summer Bay in the Channel 7 soapie Home & Away.
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Her Capital Conveyancing Services draft contract on display at the bustling weekend open for inspection has her name redacted, such is her apparent status these days.
We have previously documented her 1995 purchase of the two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in the late Art Deco block Wiltshire Towers costing $171,500 through Gray & Mulroney Woollahra.
“With a New York-inspired feel, this immaculate Art Deco apartment offers the best of the East in location and lifestyle,” the marketing advises.
“Flooded with natural light, it blends serene park-side living with a cosmopolitan flair, all within a stone’s throw from Sydney’s most sought-after spots.
“Whether it’s a morning coffee at Woollahra Village or a shopping spree at Bondi Junction, you’ll enjoy the perfect balance of nature and city life.”
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The last two-bedroom, one-bathroom unit that sold in the block fetched $1.1m in February through JT Allen Real Estate.
PropTrack calculates the two-bedroom apartment median price sits at $1,351,000, up 10 per cent after 60 sales over the past year.
The median time on market is 47 days.
The overall apartment median sits at $1,352,000, renting out for $850 a week and reflecting a 3.6 per cent rental yield.
Fisher, who has appeared in The Great Gatsby and Wedding Crashers, has had it as a rental investment property.
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It was most recently publicly listed for rent at $400 a week in February 2021, having been slashed from its $680 a week in 2018 given the extended Covid pandemic hit on the rental market.
But the apartment now comes with a forecast estimated rental return of $820 by Judstine Kidnie at the JKAgency.
Fisher’s listing comes after she and actor husband Sacha Baron Cohen announced they had split last year.
They wed in 2010 and, with their three children, called the Hollywood Hills home.
They own a seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom home in Laurel Canyon, which Fisher and Baron Cohen bought after growing tired of tourists and the paparazzi regularly being parked outside their former home closer to town.
Fisher once expressed she had “a secret fantasy” of moving to Byron Bay.
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