Retired publican lists $12m luxury apartment

A retired publican has listed his luxury $12m apartment in a luxury block full of big hitters.

Brooks is marketing the 302sqm unit at 2/1 Onslow Ave, Elizabeth Bay without furniture to show the scale of it.

A retired publican has listed his luxury $12m apartment in a luxury Elizabeth Bay block full of big hitters.

Ken Thompson, who sold his Blues Point Hotel to former Qantas chief Geoff Dixon for $6m more than a decade ago, has owned the three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment with double parking and harbour views in the exclusive ‘One Onslow” building since paying $5.05m off-the-plan in 2007.

He’s now listed it with BresicWhitney’s Romany Brooks, hot on the heels of her selling a luxury penthouse to fashion icon Collette Dinnigan for about $7.2m in the nearby Tradewinds block alongside principal Shannan Whitney.

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This is how it looked with furniture, when Ray White had it up for lease in 2020.

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Brooks says Thompson’s apartment is well-priced, compared with other newer buildings nearby that have recently sold for as much as $60,000 per sq m.

“I feel that around $40,000 per sq m, this delivers the scale downsizers are seeking and delivers on value,” Brooks says.

She has deliberately chosen to market the apartment for sale without styling it.

“It has 3m ceilings and is 302sqm, I want buyers to feel the scale,” she said.

“Buyers being able to experience it unfurnished highlights the opportunity for them to create something special and showcases the quality finishes.”

The harbour views are among its attractions.

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Thompson moved out of the second-floor apartment, which sits directly above the one Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond bought for $4.1m in 2011, after the death of his beloved wife, Elizabeth, and it’s recently been rented out to the Canadian embassy at $5000 per week

Other famous owners in the nine-unit boutique block include Joanna McNiven, widow of businessman John McNiven, who bought in for $9.7m in 2011 and mining entrepreneur Nick Curtis and his wife, Angela.

Aussie John Symond owns the apartment below Thompson’s apartment. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for Capella Sydney)

Symond initially owned three units in the block, but sold two of them in 2018, including the sub-penthouse to the Curtises for $7.25m.

Rosanna Hindmarsh, the wife of Canberra’s construction industry boss John Hindmarsh, sold the penthouse for $20m in 2021 to businessman and philanthropist Thomas Yim and his wife, Denise.

It had been Hindmarsh’s construction firm that built the block.

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Originally published as Retired publican lists $12m luxury apartment