Daughter of late Lady Fairfax lists her Rose Bay home

The daughter of the late Lady (Mary) Fairfax, Anna Cleary, has listed her Rose Bay home following her recent up-grade to a $10 million Victorian Italianate villa in Woollahra.

Cleary took possession of the five-bedroom bungalow in her name on Rose Bay’s Faraday Avenue in 2018 soon after the sale of her family’s long-held Point Piper estate Fairwater for $100 million to tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes.

The 1.12-hectare estate had been in the Fairfax family for 117 years before it was sold, following the death of Lady Fairfax in 2017, aged 95.

The sale of Fairwater set a national house price record and is the first and only nine-figure house sale. It topped the $71 million house sale of the Elaine estate next door, also long owned by another branch of the Fairfax family and bought by Cannon-Brookes’ Atlassian co-chief executive Scott Farquhar.

Cleary and her brothers Warwick and Charles Fairfax, and half-brother Garth Symonds, were the primary beneficiaries from the sale of Fairwater, which coincided with her Rose Bay home purchase.

However, Cleary upgraded her home real estate late last year buying the Woollahra home of Ilse O’Reilly, wife of former media boss Cameron O’Reilly,  who had also purchased the historic house on the quiet, paying $8.9 million in 2017.

Cleary’s Rose Bay house hit online property sites on Thursday, with a $4 million guide through Georgia Cleary, of Bradfield Cleary.

The five-bedroom house on a level 580-square-metre block goes to auction on February 25.