Lisa Wilkinson, Peter Fitzsimons settle on $15m ‘castle’
Former media power couple Lisa Wilkinson has emerged as the $15m buyers of a “castle” after a dramatic cash loss.
Lower north shore celebrity couple Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons have emerged as the $15m buyers of a Mosman penthouse, which crowns the eccentric castle-like complex, Britannic Mansions.
The settlement paperwork lodged last week revealed they bought at the lower end of its $15m to $16.5m price guide in February.
The top floor in the 1910s block of six comes with a rooftop terrace with a teppanyaki barbecue, open rooftop bathtub and views of the city.
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The waterfront block has gardens, a cave and a jetty.
With heritage-protected sandstone facade, and distinctive turret with fort-like crenellations, the castle was built on Curraghbeena Point for Francis Cherry Willis and his wife Elizabeth, who operated the Brittanic Mansions boarding house.
His brother, federal MP Henry Willis, and his wife Annie constructed Innisfallen Castle at Castle Cove.
Britannic Mansions was converted into strata in the early 1980s by property investor Andrew Best.
Former The Project presenter Wilkinson and author FitzSimons bought the apartment from Susan and Mark Luby, the former chief executive of building products supplier Alesco Corp.
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With 530sq m of indoor and outdoor living, the Raglan St apartment last changed hands at $2.85m in 2003 and has since been extensively upgraded.
Their 3214sq m Cremorne estate, with five-bedroom Arts & Craft-era home, Ingleneuk, has not yet settled, but it is understood to have sold for less than its $24.5m vendor bid.
Westpac head of institutional banking Nell Hutton has been pinpointed as the buyer.
Hutton has been at Westpac for nearly four years and was previously at Goldman Sachs.
Nell and husband Hamish own another lower north shore historic property, Dunaird, in Wollstonecraft, which they bought for $9.2m in 2020.
No indication yet of the Californian bungalow on its 1900sq m, which was built for Sir Clifford Love, one of the founders of Uncle Tobys, hitting the open market.
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