🏆 Trophy Home Tuesday - 11 June 2024

We summarise the epic home sales of the ultra-rich of Australia so you get a glimpse of how they live.

Check out these pads…

Follow us on LinkedIn here and if someone shared this with you, sign up here.

🏆 AFL legend, Buddy Franklin and Jesinta House are selling their $9m Gold Coast mansion

15 Abbey Ridge Road, Reedy Creek, QLD 4227
7 bed | 8 bath | 4 car

How’d they get rich? Buddy famously signed a 9-year, $10 million contract with the Sydney Swans back in 2013.

What else?

  • The property was listed for just 6 days before the Franklin's bought it in 2022.

  • Buddy retired from the AFL last year after playing 354 games across 19 seasons with Sydney and Hawthorn.

View the listing here (old listing).

🏆 $150m Sydney pad where Swedish House Mafia came up with 'Don't You Worry Child' is listed for sale

54-56 Wunulla Road, Point Piper NSW 2027
8 bed | 10 bath | 5 car

How’d they get rich? The property is being sold by the family of Chinese paper packaging billionaire, Huang Bingwen.

What else?

  • The Huang family bought the house for $62m in 2017.

  • Swedish House Mafia stayed at the property in 2012, which served as the inspiration for their song 'Don't You Worry Child'

  • SWM said "…we were at this amazing house in Sydney by the water, and we were trying to take in all the amazingness of Sydney. So we took out a couch ... and sat in the garden with the ocean view there. And we were like, 'OK, let's make something that sounds how this looks."

View the listing here.

🏆 Debt collector puts up Brisbane CBD penthouse with a record $20m+ price tag expected

5201/71 Eagle Street, Brisbane City QLD 4000
5 bed | 7 bath | 8 car

How’d they get rich? John Pearce was one of the co-founders of Collection House Group which was once one of Australia's largest debt collection agencies.

What else?

  • Pearce founded Collection House in 1994 — listed the business on the ASX in 2000 with the company trading for $500m+ a year later.

  • Pearce sold a big chunk of his stock around this all-time high.

  • 20 years later in 2022, the company ran into its own debt problems and ultimately went bust.

View the listing here.

🏆 Son of a billionaire sells his $11m Mosman house

18 Kirkoswald Avenue, Mosman, NSW 2088
6 bed | 3 bath | 2 car

How’d they get rich? Tom Millner is the son of Robert Millner — the chairman of New Hope Coal and Washington H. Soul Pattinson (aka Soul Patts).

What else?

  • Tom Millner is the co-founder of investment manager, Contact Asset Management.

  • He also sits on the board of New Hope Coal alongside his dad and until recently was also on the Soul Patts board.

  • Soul Patts started as a pharmacy in Sydney 120 years ago but grew into a conglomerate with diversified interests in telecom, mining and investment funds.

View the listing here.

Other $10m+ Deals

  • $45m Watsons Bay property with jetty is sold (NSW Watsons Bay | 6 bed | 7 bath | 5 car)

  • $40m Brighton home is expected to set a suburb record (VIC Brighton | 5 bed | 3 bath | 8 car)

  • $39m paid for an entire floor at One Sydney Harbour (NSW Sydney)

  • $25m Vaucluse family home is seeking EOI (NSW Vaucluse | 5 bed | 3 bath | 2 car)

  • $20m penthouse and another $14m apartment sold in Tamarama apartment (NSW Tamarama)

  • $18m double block sold to apartment developer (QLD Palm Beach)

  • $17.5m Toorak mansion bought by shoe boss who sold his other Toorak house recently (VIC Toorak | 4 bed | 4 bath | 5 car)

  • $17m development site in Vaucluse is sold (NSW Vaucluse)

  • $16m Bellevue Hill family home is sold (NSW Vaucluse | 5 bed | 4 bath | 2 car)

  • $15m Federation estate has come to market looking for its 5th owner in 128yrs (NSW Longueville | 5 bed | 5 bath | 3 car)

  • $13m waterfront home in Chiswick sells at auction (NSW Chiswick | 4 bed | 4 bath | 3 car)

  • $11m Peppermint Grove property is listed for sale (WA Peppermint Grove | 5 bed | 4 bath | 8 car)

  • $11m Toorak mansion is sold (VIC Toorak | 5 bed | 4 bath | 6 car)

  • $10m Bellevue Hill property is sold (NSW Bellevue Hill | 5 bed | 3 bath | 2 car)

  • $10m Double Bay pad is sold at auction (NSW Double Bay | 5 bed | 6 bath | 2 car)

  • $10m Woollahra development site is sold at auction (NSW Woollahra)