Burraneer home and music studio of Rufus du Sol's Jon George sells for $6.7 million

The childhood home of Jon George, one-third of the electronic outfit Rufus du Sol, has sold for $6.7 million, and with it, the hollowed-out water tank in which they wrote, recorded and produced their hit debut album Atlas.

Until now, the waterfront digs in Burraneer was best known for being once owned by Walter and Florence Taubman of the Taubman paint family and rebuilt in 1992 to a design by architect firm Pratt Miniter for renowned community worker and the Sutherland Shire’s Citizen of the Year 2014 Debbie Crowley.

The George family purchased it in 1994 for $33,740, and about a decade ago, a disused water tank in the yard that was once used for storage was converted into a music studio by Jon and his bandmates Tyrone Lindqvist and James Hunt.

“It seemed like the perfect spot to commandeer,” George told the now-defunct free daily newspaper MX in 2013. “None of us had picked up tools before, but we managed to put carpet in and put some big speakers on the walls, and we turned it into a little studio down there.”

Atlas was released in 2013, making No. 1 on the ARIA album chart, and three of its songs went on to make the Triple J Hottest 100 in January the following year.

And while George, 35, has since moved to Byron Bay – buying there in 2019 for $2.4 million – his childhood home was renovated throughout last year before his parents Norah and Patrick George listed it with Highland Property’s Mitchell Wynn and David Highland.

Mr Wynn declined to reveal who the $6.7 million buyer was of the Hamptons-style house with swimming pool and private pontoon, saying only that it was a family relocating from the eastern suburbs.