Ray Martin splurges on $4m home
Media legend Ray Martin has scored a stunning new $4.3m home and pocketed $4m for his troubles too.
Award-winning media veteran Ray Martin, who has quietly sold his Waverton home of 35 years, has bought in nearby Cammeray.
The television journalist and his wife, Dianne, have paid $4.25m for a five-bedroom, three-bathroom contemporary house on 280sq m, with a compact 166sq m internal living space.
They have downsized from Finisterre – their five-bedroom, three-bathroom house with 337sq m internal living space, plus a skylit 39sq m pool house with kitchenette and toilet.
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That redundant McHatton St house, which sits on 798sq m, reportedly came to market on New Year’s Day and was sold within a fortnight for between $8m and $8.5m.
The couple had paid $900,000 in 1990 for the original 1930s home.
Its outdoor entertaining terrace came with a glass-framed pool.
The local paper calculated the Martins’ home was the fourth highest ever house sale in Waverton.
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Martin, whose mentor is David Attenborough, began his career in 1965 as an ABC cadet. He was on the original team of reporters at Nine’s 60 Minutes in 1979 and he hosted A Current Affair between 1994 and 1998.
He won five Gold and 26 Silver Logies during his as-yet unfinished six-decade career, which recently saw a three-part series on death and dying on SBS titled Ray Martin: The Last Goodbye.
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Martin recently celebrated his 80th birthday at the Union Hotel in North Sydney. Sydney Confidential reported Andrew Denton, Gary Sweet, Wendy Harmer, Gretel Killeen, Derryn Hinch and Tracy Grimshaw were among the 150 in attendance, along with Martin’s The Midday Band from his eight years hosting the daytime program between 1985 and 1993.
The couple sold their Coolum retreat on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast for $2.65m in 2022, after paying $250,000 in 2001.
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