The Renzo Piano-designed 1 Sydney Harbour by Lend Lease consists of the three towers to the left of Crown Tower. Horne has bought a two-level skyhome in Tower 2 on levels 83 and 84.
Former Queensland grazier Victoria Horne has paid $54.1m for a Barangaroo unit and listed the incredible Southern Highlands estate she bought from former Opposition Leader John Hewson with hopes of $25m.
Horne, wife of former army officer turn private contractor in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan Steven Horne, who wrote the thriller The Devil’s Tears, also recently listed her apartment in Sirius overlooking the Opera House, bought two years ago for $14.75m cash, with a $13m guide.
The Barangaroo sale is the highest apartment sale of this financial year and has gone unreported in the media until now.
Horne has appeared on land title documents for a four-bedroom plus study, three-bathroom two-level sky home with four-car garage in Tower 2 of the Renzo Piano-designed 1 Sydney Harbour, by Lend Lease.
Although Horne bought both the Highlands estate and the Sirius apartment in cash, the title for the sky home shows a mortgage to the National Australia Bank.
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Victoria Horne is the wife of author Steven Horne, who wrote the thriller The Devil’s Tears.
The sky home has views of the Harbour Bridge.
It comes with a private pool and indoor/outdoor entertainment area.
The apartment, at 83B/2 Watermans Quay, spans a whopping 570sqm, with most of the living and accommodation areas on level 83, with its own personal pool and indoor/outdoor entertainment area on level 84.
The sale, understood to have been done by James Hall of Savills, occurred last October.
When contacted, Hall had no comment, but documents show the previous owners — Mi Yi Li and Zening He — had only settled on their $44,836,300 purchase, presumably off-the-plan in 2019 — last April.
They’d never moved in so it’s understood Savills furnished just one sitting room and the pool area for the resale.
The skyhome is in the same complex as the Australia’s highest ever property sale: $141.55m for the top three floors of Tower 1 of 1 Sydney Harbour, which occurred in 2019 but only settled last June in the name of multimillionaire Yan Zhang.
That apartment spans more than 1600sqm, with ceilings up to 8m high.
The 9.3 ha Exeter estate has been transformed since bought from former Opposition Leader John Hewson for $6m in 2019.
The major reno was done under the direction of Greg Natale Designs.
Hall is one of the agents selling Horne’s grand 9.3ha estate Invergowrie at Exeter, which is listed on the Savills website. Deborah Cullen and Richard Royle of Cullen & Royle are the co-agents and have it listed on realestate.com.au
It’s described as “the most prestigious and arguably the most famous residence in the Southern Highlands”.
The home was built in 1936 by Sir Cecil Harold Hoskins, who established Australia’s iron and steel industry and received a knighthood from the Queen in 1960.
The park-like gardens were established by the appraised Paul Sorenson.
The guide is $23m-$25m and the six-bedroom, seven-bathroom Tudor Revival residence has been “recently reborn” after a major reno under the direction of Greg Natale Designs — it looks far different from when Horne snapped it up for $6m from Hewson in 2019.
The price guide is $23m to $25m.
The grounds include a tennis court.
Features include two lavish master retreats, seven bathrooms, two powder rooms, an indoor swimming pool, trophy room, gym, games room, vast wine cellar, bar and library.
The grounds include a circa 1800s lakehouse with lake vistas, a caretaker’s house, guest house, workshop, shed, a tennis court, a beautiful outdoor swimming pool, aviary, bocce pit, and park-like gardens with oak trees, groves of cedar, and silver elms.
The Sirius apartment has views of the Bridge and Opera House.
The apartment has been on the market for about a month.
Horne’s Sirius apartment, which has been on the market for about a month with Hall and Steven Chen of The Agency, has three bedrooms, three-bathrooms and double parking.
It offers views of the Bridge, Opera House, harbour and city from four balconies.
Hall’s $54.1m sale at 1 Sydney Harbour was just $2.6m more than Chen’s $51.5m sale on the 78th floor of Crown Tower next door — to billionaire Alex Birkenstock, of the German leather sandal-family, in February.
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