Sonia Kruger sells luxury Sydney home for $19m
TV star Sonia Kruger has just banked $19m courtesy of a massive, life-changing move.
TV presenter Sonia Kruger and her husband, former head of news and current affairs at Seven, Craig McPherson, have pocketed $19m from the sale of their Mosman house.
Their five-bedroom Stanton Rd trophy home settled last week with its cash buyer being the Primo Smallgoods matriarch Maria Hunt.
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The couple, whispered to have sold for circa $20m, have been pinpointed as spending $16.1m on a nearby deceased estate.
The three-bedroom Stanley Ave home was sold by the family of milk bar proprietor George Psaltis and wife Hariclea, who had paid $31,000 in 1967.
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Kruger moved to Mosman nine years ago, paying $6.475m for an original house.
Her 2016 purchase marked her return to Mosman as she once owned a two-bedroom Musgrave St apartment which cost $490,000 in 1999 and was sold in 2005 for $927,500.
The couple then commissioned Corben Architects to redesign it, with another level. The $1m makeover included the addition of a lift.
Kruger had sold her Warrawee home for $3,725,000. The imposing abode had been bought in 2008, just before her six-year marriage to banker James Davies ended. They also owned an Elanora Heights home.
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The former champion ballroom dancer, who found fame as Tina Sparkle in the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom, retains her Waratah Mills, Dulwich Hill investment apartment, which was bought off the plan for $255,000 in 2001.
Kruger’s new home is described as a “once in a lifetime opportunity with spectacular panoramas”.
The realestate.com.a ad describes it as a “complete blank canvas”: that’s real estate speak for what the pictures reveal is a falling-down house.
There was certainly plenty of interest, given that this is Mosman’s best non-waterfront street.
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It’s arguably the prime spot on the Balmoral slopes, with uninterrupted views sweeping beyond North Head, with 190-degree panoramas from every elevation.
“Build a multi-storey sanctuary with views from each level,” says the ad. It’s also only 550m from Balmoral Beach.
Auctioneer James Kerley had nine bidders register, with three of them active.
It’s understood the pair intend to demolish the old home, in the same family for generations, and rebuild on the 743sqm block.
Originally published as Sonia Kruger sells luxury Sydney home for $19m
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