Former Rugby Union chief Gary Flowers launches spring with his $10 million Manly trophy

Former Rugby Union chief Gary Flowers and kidney specialist Professor Carol Pollock are kicking off this weekend’s start to the spring selling season with a preliminary ask of $10 million for their Mediterranean-style home on Manly’s Fairy Bower.

Set on a double block of almost 1400 square metres on the high side of Bower Street, the historic residence was built in 1932 and designed by architect Bertrand James Waterhouse in his classic Mediterranean style with Spanish Mission influences.

Flowers and Pollock purchased the hilltop home in the early 1990s and undertook an extensive renovation a decade ago that retained its many Spanish Mission-style arched windows and doorways.

The championship tennis court and pool cabana are on the adjoining block, all of which is on a 20-year leasehold by the Catholic Church.

Belle Property Manly’s Steve Thomas has the listing.

Fairy Bower has been doing its best impression of Point Piper on the northern beaches this year, with an impressive line-up of sales this year, headed by Ross Lane, of the Oroton fashion empire, who sold his oceanfront property in March for $9.5 million to Seven’s chief Tim Worner.

More recently, records show lawyer Richard Hayes, until recently a partner at King & Wood Mallesons, has set a record for a two-bedroom apartment in Manly at $2,425,000 through McGrath’s Jake Rowe.

Set atop the Blue Dolphin oceanfront reserve block, it last traded in 2000 for the then usual asking price of $900,000.

Bower Street, Manly.

Bower Street, Manly.