Optus chief Kelly Bayer Rosmarin lists $7.5 million Vaucluse house

If Kelly Bayer Rosmarin thought she had a busy year ahead, given her new job and the networking demands of running Australia’s second biggest telco at a time when Australians are working from home en masse, she just made it a lot busier by listing her Vaucluse home.

The listing comes amid talk in the eastern suburbs that the recently appointed Optus chief executive and her husband, Rodney Rosmarin, are planning to sell and trade up locally.

But it seems the sales campaign is hoping to draw the attention of buyers, and not journalists, given the address is only being disclosed to buyers directly and the selling agent D’Leanne Lewis, of Laing + Simmons Double Bay, was not contactable by Title Deeds at the time of publication.

That has left it to buyers to disclose they are being offered a guide of $7.5 million.

Bayer Rosmarin was an executive at the Commonwealth Bank when the couple bought the four-bedroom house with gym, pool and au pair retreat in 2012 for $4.5 million.

It was previously owned by rag trader Eli Alster and his wife Kim, who had commissioned Brian Meyerson Architects to design the DA plans that were approved by council in 2005.

The South Africa-born Bayer Rosmarin was reportedly runner-up to Matt Comyn in the race to become CBA chief in 2018 before she left the bank and joined Optus early last year as deputy chief executive.

Bayer Rosmarin officially started in the top job in April, telling the Australian Financial Review she started in the role working from a hastily repurposed office in her Vaucluse home.

“If you’d said to me a number of weeks ago that I would spend my first few days working from home, I would have thought it was crazy,” she told the Australian Financial Review.

There is no indication the couple have already bought on title records, but they do own a historic Federation mansion in the Bowral township they bought more than a decade ago for $2.25 million.