Mosman house that Justin Bieber didn't reject sold for $21.5 million

The Mosman house briefly home to Justin Bieber during his Sydney tour four years ago has sold for more than $21.5 million.

Thankfully, it has been well aired since the pop sensation and his entourage were in residence, which will no doubt be a relief to buyers, retired Merrill Lynch and Commonwealth Bank executive Doug Dovey and his wife Debra.

The sale ends a four-year campaign to sell the state-of-the-art residence on a neat 650 square metres that started at the bullish $20 million-plus level on behalf of former model-turn-luxury property investor Cameron MacDonald.

Bieber wasn’t the only star to rent the turn-key property during its sales campaign. Just weeks before Bieber sent Mosman’s teenagers into a frenzy of excited star stalking crooner Adele had touched down in Sydney to lease the Mosman house as a decoy while she kicked back in Hunters Hill.

Raine & Horne Mosman’s Brendan Warner, who originally listed it but was later joined by Ray White Double Bay’s Nic Krasnostein and Ashley Bierman, declined to comment on the sale despite the Doveys already lodging their purchase on title.

At the time it hit the market Warner described the Coronation Avenue property as, “a house built for billionaires, and by far the best fit-out internally of any house I’ve seen”.

“It’s like a three-level penthouse with these harbour views,” he added.

While the Doveys are not quite billionaires, they are returning to Mosman from their recently sold Milsons Point penthouse in The Point, listed last year for more than $15 million.

The couple had downsized to Milsons Point in 2015 for $7.5 million, and sold their former home in Mosman’s Golden Triangle a year later for $12.8 million.

Also reshuffling their Mosman real estate is Harris Farm co-chief executive Angus Harris and his wife Louisa, who have paid $8.1 million for a knock-down-rebuild that backs onto Chinamans Beach.

The Harris family’s purchase was revealed on settlement this week following a fairly quick sales campaign by Ray White Mosman’s Geoff Smith and Richard Harding, who were shopping it to buyers on behalf of John Barnes, owner of Queensland’s oldest thoroughbred stud Canning Downs.

The Harris family already own in Mosman, having purchased a bungalow in 2013 for $1.8 million that has been extensively renovated since, and adding a house in Avalon Beach two years ago for almost $3 million.

De Angelis returns to Hunters Hill

Pub baron Arch De Angelis and his wife Robyn have snapped up a $9 million waterfront house in Hunters Hill two doors from their long-held home amid talk locally it was purchased for their 40-year-old son Phillip.

Phillip’s move to within earshot of his parents will no doubt be a welcome milestone in his life after his well-documented court appearances of recent years on charges of drink driving and domestic violence after he assaulted his former girlfriend.

The purchase through Ward Partners’ Matthew Ward reunites all four of the De Angelis children on the peninsula, each with their own waterfront homes: Marc and Nicole in neighbouring homes on the Woolwich waterfront; Peter with his $8.8 million digs bought in 2018; and now Phillip with his own home complete with his own jetty, pontoon and mooring pen.

Also in the neighbourhood is their cousin, former Liberal MP Craig Laundy – son of pub titan Arthur Laundy, who is Robyn De Angelis’s brother – who bought his nearby waterfront home five years ago for $8.28 million.

Geddes gets his houses in order

The death knell has sounded for yet another backpackers of Potts Point thanks to the high-end housing plans of Fat Prophets chief and founder Angus Geddes.

Geddes was the sole bidder for three terraces in a row on Victoria Street when they sold at auction last Saturday for $11 million – $1.4 million above the guide – through a tight-lipped Bernadette Summers of The Agency.

Geddes, who already owns a couple of apartments in the neighbourhood including a $6.75 million pad in the Omnia building, is planning to turn the heritage 1890s terraces into one private residence.

They are across the road from the two terraces that once made up Zingers backpacker bought by cattle baron Theo Onisforou in 2018 for $3.25 million each amid plans to redesign them into single terraces for his kids.

Swapping Point Piper for Queensland

Former chief executive of Chanel Korea, Robert Stavrides and his wife Sarina have listed their Point Piper garden apartment in the historic Kilmory estate for $12 million to $13 million.

Stavrides, who led the French luxury brand in Korea for about 15 years before he retired a few years ago, has listed it with 1^st City Real Estate Group’s Julian Hasemer given the couple’s plan to spend more time in Queensland with family.

The three-bedroom apartment is one of seven set in the grand hall of the 1913-built Arts and Crafts residence was purchased in 2010 for more than $5.2 million.

Point Piper’s values have only soared since, as evidenced by the $11.65 million paid by China’s queen of soft rock Tian Zhen in 2016 for the apartment upstairs, and this week’s more than $37 million sale of the O’Neil family’s former boatshed.

Point Piper’s beachfront $10 million deal

Macquarie Capital’s global executive chairman David Roseman and his interior designer wife Sue have sold their Point Piper beachfront apartment for $10 million.

Di Baker, of her eponymous agency, had a guide of more than $9 million on the whole-floor spread after she and The Agency’s Ben Collier sold the couple the nearby duplex of JP Morgan boss Paul Uren and his wife Jennifer for more than $16 million.

The Rosemans had undertaken a major renovation of the four-bedder after they bought it 13 years ago for $3.9 million. The buyer remains a mystery.