Superstar radio host Jackie O Henderson has bought her Woollahra “forever” dream house for about $13m, $2m greater than she paid for it in 2020.
And it’s snooping paparazzi which have pushed her out.
The well-liked Kyle and Jackie O co-host gained the keys for the lavish Nick Tobias-designed Edward St residence after it was on realestate.com.au for simply three days in June, 2020, paying $1m above the $10m value information to safe it, Realestate.com.au reviews.
The Wentworth Courier broke the news of the sale on the time on-line, with different reviews that adopted suggesting it will be her “forever” house.
But the photographer frenzy proved an excessive amount of. “They were gazing in from the park and it’s just such a narrow street making it difficult to escape,” sources advise.
It’s unclear the place Henderson’s headed subsequent, nevertheless it’s recognized she is but to purchase elsewhere.
The hearsay mill means that The Agency’s Ben Collier, who bought her the four-bedroom, three-bathroom residence with double storage overlooking Cooper Park, has now bought it for her off-market for between $12m-$13m. Sources say: “She would have taken $13m.”
Collier couldn’t be contacted on the time of publication, nonetheless different sources have confirmed the sale and value.
According to realestate.com.au, the median home value in Woollahra, has risen from $3.1m in June 2020 to take a seat at $4.925m immediately, an increase of virtually 60 per cent.
The property had beforehand been owned by high-profile stockbroker Angus Aitken and his spouse Sarah, who’d purchased it for $3.3m in 2009.
But they’d accomplished an entire transformation, working with Tobias over a two-year interval on the design adopted by one other two years of building.
Prior to the Henderson’s buy in 2020, the open house was packed, a sign of the recognition of the property on the time.
There gave the impression to be loads of enthusiasm as consumers walked by.
I heard one lady request a contract from Collier and he or she was raving concerning the high quality of the house, which had been accomplished seven years earlier than.
He mentioned to her: “It cost in excess of $5 million to build then, so you can only imagine what the replacement cost would be today.”
It’s a house that must be seen in individual to totally respect — the images don’t fairly do it justice.
It’s beautiful sufficient from the road. But behind the massive entrance door there’s an entrance corridor with three-metre ceilings.
Beyond that, steps lead right down to a double-height open-plan dwelling area, that opens to a north-facing Myles Baldwin-designed backyard.
The heated pool seems to be like one thing you’d discover in an unique Bali resort.
A wonderful visitor suite is cantilevered over the eating space.
But the opposite three bedrooms are on the highest flooring and the main bedroom is to die for, with its bed room searching over Cooper Park and a lavish ensuite and dressing room.
It’s the bush outlook that helps make the well-designed house so particular.
In the Wentworth Courier’s unique story revealing the itemizing of the Aitken house in 2020, Tobias mentioned: “It’s just such an extraordinary location … from nearly every room you feel totally connected to the bushland.”
Jackie O had moved to the Woollahra house from the Cambridge Ave, Vaucluse house she’d shared with former husband Lee Henderson.
That bought for $6,675,000 on March 27, 2020.
This article was initially revealed on Realestate.com.au and seems right here with permission.
