Wintergarden is right on the Rose Bay beachfront.
The Rose Bay apartment record has been smashed at Sydney’s favourite apartment block and you won’t believe the buyer, or their grand plan!
The sub-penthouse at the beachfront block ‘The Wintergarden’ at 6/614-622 New South Head Rd, Rose Bay has achieved more than $20m, sources advise, via Julian Hasemer of 1st City and Michael Pallier of Sotheby’s who had an $18m guide.
Neither sales agent would pick up the phone, but the word is that the purchaser is none other than Michelle Berger, wife of FiveX commercial property group boss Joshua Berger, who paid the previous record price of $11.25m for the Wintergarden penthouse directly above this one five years ago, via Hasemer and his co-principal Brad Caldwell-Eyles.
The buyer’s agent was Jeremy Bedwani, who now operates his own business in
Double Bay, who said: “We had a strategy to buy outside of an auction — the clients are thrilled having secured such a landmark sub penthouse.”
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What an entrance!
Harbour views.
The serenity!
The suspicion is that the couple are planning to create a mega two-storey penthouse, which could arguably be the biggest and best two-storey penthouse in Sydney.
The penthouse and sub-penthouse both have the same already sizeable 330sqm floor-plan (including the terrace).
One can only imagine the appeal of the palatial 660sqm spread, linked by a lift, that the cashed-up couple are planning to create! But obviously any change — stairs or lift — would be subject to strata approval.
The Bergers had paid $1m above the then Rose Bay record at the time of their first purchase in 2020.
And this latest deal blows the current suburb record — $14.7m for EverBlu Capital founder Adam Blumenthal and his wife Annabelle Shamir’s penthouse in the Opus building last August — out of the water by more than $5m.
The sub-penthouse offers three bedrooms.
Designer finishes.
No wonder it’s Sydney’s favourite downsizer destination.
No wonder The Wintergarden — a boutique block of eight (soon to be seven) that was once a popular circa 1928 theatre of the same name — is the dream location for so many eastern suburbs downsizers.
Apart from being right on Rose Bay beach, the apartments offer magnificent northerly 180-degree harbour views.
They’re also just a short walk from the famous Catalina restaurant and the Rose Bay village.
The sub-penthouse was the home of the late Evelyn Royal, wife of a prominent apartment developer, who’d purchased her apartment for $6.75m in 2009.
Her apartment had been architecturally reconfigured by the acclaimed designer Alexander Michael.
It had lift access to a four-car garage.
The four-level complex, developed by the late Sid Londish, has become the favoured eastern suburbs downsizer home for the seriously wealthy, with property developer Roy Medich and venture capitalist John Grant among its residents.
Along with its stunning gardens, there’s a harbourfront pool retreat and direct beach access.
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