“Lawyer and Paul Keating confidante sells Potts Point ‘interim home’ for $11.5m”
Former chief financial officer of Mirvac Stephen Thomson and his wife, CelesteThey sold their mid-century modern home in Bellevue Hill for $15 million.
Mirvac’s former chief financial officer Stephen Thomson and his wife Celeste have sold their mid-century modern home in Bellevue Hill for $15 million.Credit:
Local sources with knowledge of the deal but not authorized to comment publicly said they decided to downsize to a warehouse in Surry Hills.
Stephen Thomson.Credit:
Before joining development giant Mirvac, Steve held executive roles at Microsoft and infrastructure company Broadspectrum, formerly known as Transfield Services and now part of Ventia, as well as the Easternwell Group drilling and engineering business. His LinkedIn profile suggests a new career path, with his time at Mirvac ending this month.
A sold tag on the Bellevue Hill listing showed the sale by private treaty on Dec. 5 for $15 million.
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Selling agents Maclay Longhurst and Brad Plos of Sydney Sotheby’s International Realty declined to comment on any aspect of the sale. The recipient’s identity will be disclosed at checkout.
The couple bought the 5-bedroom, 3-bathroom house with a pool in 2013 for $4,385,000. Dr David Sonnabend, A.M.Emeritus professor of orthopedics and traumatic surgery at the University of Sydney and his wife pamela.
The Thomsons commissioned architect Henry Rossler to renovate the mansion, adding a rooftop entertainment terrace with panoramic views from Point Piper to Bondi, a Calacatta marble kitchen, a 600-bottle wine cellar and a gym. There is large glass and oak floors throughout.
Bellevue Hill has the highest median home price in the country; it’s currently an eye-watering $10 million, according to Domain data. This figure has more than tripled since March 2015.
Elizabeth Bay record
Allan LivingstoneSydney’s wife who makes money from the M4 motorway and darylHe sold his Elizabeth Bay waterfront apartments for $28 million, making it a suburban record for a unit.
Views from an Elizabeth Bay waterfront condo that sold for a suburban record $28 million. Credit:
Livingstone was managing director of Statewide Roads. In 2000, Macquarie Infrastructure Group paid $153.3 million for a 50.6 percent stake in the company. He has invested in property since Livingstone’s unexpected arrival.
That property was sold by private treaty on November 28, with a figure of $28 million announced, but selling agents Geoff Cox and Jason Boon of Richardson & Wrench declined to comment further. The buyer will be determined at the time of the agreement.
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The two-storey, four-bedroom, four-bathroom garden apartment is one of the six-storey house. Architected by Burley Katon Halliday, the house features limestone floors, private balconies, bathrooms for the bedrooms and a kitchen with Gaggenau and Miele appliances.
Records show the Livingstones bought the unit, which has a 20-metre communal pool, private dock, level garden and direct access to the harbour, for $6.5 million in 1998.
