🏆 Trophy Home Tuesday - 18 June 2024

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

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🏆 Former Wallabies player lists his Manly home for $16m

2 Spring Cove Avenue, Manly NSW 2095
5 bed | 4 bath | 2 car

How’d they get rich? Jason Little is a former Wallabies player who has risen the corporate ladder to become the Australian CEO of Goodman Group.

What else?

  • Little was made the head of the Aussie division in 2007, just before the GFC hit.

  • In the depths of the GFC, Goodman Group’s share price fell to around 20c — it now trades for $35+.

  • Goodman’s cofounder and CEO netted the highest pay for a local ASX-listed CEO — taking home around $44m in 2023.

View the listing here.

🏆 Snack food mega-millionaire buys $25m Palm Beach house

106 Iluka Road, Palm Beach, NSW 2108
7 bed | 4 bath | 2 car

How’d they get rich? Lenka Dransfield and David Lennon are the founders of Cal Marketing — a wholesaler of snack brands in Aussie and US supermarkets.

What else?

  • Dransfield bought the property from the Dial a Dump garbage removal founder, Ian Malouf — who sold his company for $578m.

  • Dransfield bought another $22m North Bondi pad just 3 years ago

View the listing here.

🏆 Former Melbourne Rebels club owner sells his Brighton mansion for $13m+

3 Moule Ave, Brighton VIC
6 bed | 6 bath

How’d they get rich? Andrew Cox was the former owner of the Melbourne Rebels Super Rugby club + runs the private equity shop, Imperium Group.

What else?

  • Imperium acquired the rights to the TGI Fridays in ANZ in 2002, turned it around, grew it from 3 to 10 locations before flipping it 15 years later.

  • Imperium also owns hotels in New Zealand, home and storage businesses and a beer joint venture with Coca-Cola Amatil.

View the listing here.

🏆 Former head of consulting at KPMG lists his $15m Gold Coast house

297-299 Monaco Street, Broadbeach Waters, Qld 4218
5 bed | 5 bath | 5 car

How’d they get rich? James Collier was a Sydney-based partner at KPMG for 20 years until his retirement last year.

What else?

  • The Colliers bought the property for $12.5m in 2021 from Billy Cross of Manpower fame (not a recruiting firm).

  • Manpower is the male dancing show, which later became Australia’s Thunder From Down Under — a staple show on the Las Vegas strip (pun intended).

View the listing here.

Other $15m+ Deals

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

  • $40m+ McMansion straight from Fresh Prince is listed for sale (QLD Tallebudgera | 10 bed | 11 bath | 11 car)

  • $25m knockdown in Brighton is put on-market (VIC Brighton | 7 bed | 7 bath | 4 car)

  • $16m Mosman house takes a $4m haircut on its price guidance (NSW Mosman | 5 bed | 5 bath | 4 car)

  • $15.5m waterfront home in Kurraba Point comes to market (NSW Kurraba Point | 4 bed | 4 bath | 3 car)

  • $15m penthouse overlooking the Sydney Harbour is listed for sale (NSW Potts Point | 3 bed | 3 bath | 3 car)