Sydney’s skinniest waterfront has eyewatering price
Sydney’s skinniest waterfront is about to hit the market to kick off the year in real estate and it has a jawdropping price tag, despite its size.
Sydney’s skinniest harbourfront has been listed in Darling Point.
It was an off pocket listing for several months late last year, but it’s soon set for extensive marketing through TRG agent, Benjamin Goodwin who has been seeking $20 million buyers.
The 6m-wide Carthona Avenue home has been listed by Melbourne accessory designer Gregory Ladner and his partner, Mark Grenville.
They bought it for $15.5m in 2022 from the Paddington-based Dicker Data co-founder Fiona Brown through Goodwin.
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The four level Darling Point home that sits on 207 sqm, now comes complete with glass lift.
It was a right-of-way slipway for nearby flat owners when the house was innovatively built in the early 1980s by the developer Bill Shipton, who died last September aged 85.
The Carthona Ave bijou sur mer that sits between historic Carthona and Neidpath has been popular with Melbournites, with past owners including the late socialite Lady Susan Renouf.
It was Renouf’s last Sydney house which she sold when moving back to Melbourne to be with her daughters in the mid-1990s.
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Renouf sold to the Melbourne socialite Dianne Allen for $2.9 million with its next owner, the acclaimed Melbourne-based landscaper Jack Merlo paying $6.15 million in 2009.
The waterfront was first lavishly restored by stylist Barry Byrne under the generous patronage of landlady Dorothy Spry, who paid $2.4 million in 1989.
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For many years it was dormant during absentee investor Carl Spies’s ownership – other than its use by skylarking rich squatters for raves in the 1980s.
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