Jennifer Hawkins' Newport home sets $24.5m record in sale to Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes

The Newport trophy home of Jennifer Hawkins and her husband Jake Wall has set a northern beaches record of $24.5 million, selling to tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and his wife Annie.

It comes just six months after the peninsula high was claimed by the Palm Beach weekender of the late media legend Sam Chisholm’s daughter Caroline Jumpertz at $24 million when it sold to Caledonia Investment’s Mike Messara.

The only residential sale higher north of the Harbour Bridge is the Mosman residence Hopetoun bought by investment banker and Sydney Swans chairman Andrew Pridham two years ago for $25 million.

Hawkins and Wall’s Newport residence Casa Paloma was listed last year with a bottom line of more than $20 million with Ken Jacobs, of Christie’s International,  just weeks after the birth of their daughter Frankie Violet.

It is a testament to the quality of the architect Koichi Takada-designed residence and construction by Wall’s J Group Projects that the residence claims the northern beaches record for Newport, away from the traditional trophy neighbourhoods of Palm Beach and Whale Beach.

Independent sources say the bullish sale result came after offers from multiple parties.

The prime expanse of 3360 square metres of beachfront was an amalgamation of adjoining blocks bought in 2014 for $4 million from a company held by investment banker Tony Berg, and set on the site of what was formerly the Wentworth Estate of the late Liberal politician Bill Wentworth.

The five-bedroom residence features a central sandstone feature wall and interiors by Sarah-Jayne Marriott and Hellen Pappas, with vast walls of glass that open to cantilevered terraces overlooking the swimming pool, a private boathouse and the western foreshores of Pittwater.

“It’s going to be really sad to say goodbye to this beautiful home and location,” Hawkins told Title Deeds exclusively at the time it was listed amid plans to move closer to family on the Central Coast. “It has been absolutely amazing to live in Newport and this house was perfect for entertaining family and friends being by the water.