30-year-old Sydneysider who bought a $30m trophy home in Bellevue Hill

Annabelle Shamir is only 30, but in the rarefied eastern suburbs prestige property market, it seems you’re never too young to stake your place with one of Sydney’s trophy homes. Take the $30 million-plus  Bellevue Hill mansion she has purchased from fashion designer-turned-lifestyle blogger Stephanie Conley-Buhre.

No doubt joining Ms Shamir in the home upgrade from her contemporary $6.3 million North Bondi home is her dealmaker husband Adam Blumenthal, a Liberal fundraiser and co-founder and chairman of both his family-run boutique corporate advisory EverBlu Capital and cannabis company Cresco Pharma.

The couple’s grand Victoria Road home is just the latest of three high-end property purchases of recent years totalling $40 million, including their North Bondi house and a Southern Highlands retreat in High Range, bought last September for just shy of $4 million.

Ms Conley-Buhre, the daughter of the late aviation pioneer and philanthropist John Conley, and her venture capitalist husband Oscar Buhre have done well on the Bellevue Hill digs, having purchased it for $17.1 million in 2018 from property investor Richard Scheinberg when he upgraded to the nearby Rona estate for $58 million.

Before it was offered quietly to buyers by Ray White Double Bay’s Ashley Bierman, Ms Conley-Buhre commissioned Molnar Freeman Architects to undertake a major renovation of the residence.

Given the approved DA estimated the works at $690,000, that has left the couple cashed up for their next home renovation, the nearby Alcooringa mansion she bought in June for about $28.5 million from medico Louis Klein and his wife Claire.

It wasn’t Ms Conley Buhre’s first high-end renovation. The Darling Point residence her father purchased in 1977 for $155,000 was redesigned by Luigi Rosselli and the result was featured in Belle magazine before it sold three years ago for $15.2 million to Macquarie executive John Wilson.

Ms Shamir is far from the only millennial making waves in Sydney’s high-end housing market this year. William Wenhao Wu, 28, has amassed $115 million worth of housing in the Bellevue Hill to Vaucluse area since early last year with help from his property-developer mother Jing Wang.

More recently, 34-year-olds from Hong Kong, Tsz Chun Hui and Tsz Yan Hui bought a five-bedroom house on 1400 square metres for $18 million on the quiet through Laing+Simmons Double Bay’s Danny Doff.