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Bikini entrepreneur and liquor heir buy $17 million Bellevue Hill home
By Lucy Macken
As businesswoman Natasha Oakley and liquor heir Theo Chambers were preparing to exchange vows on Italy’s Capri island on Friday, word was out back in Sydney that they had already lined up their matrimonial home.
Sources say Ray White’s Ashley Bierman has quietly sold the couple a 1950s villa in Bellevue Hill for about $17 million, making a handsome capital gain for Laura and James Hannan, son of printing magnate Michael Hannan.
The 1950s-built villa in Bellevue Hill has sold off-market for about $17 million.Credit: Domain
Hannan was until recently chief operating officer at leading media marketing and printing company Ovato, which went into administration a year ago. He has since joined the senior executive ranks of wholesaler Yatsal Distributors.
Natasha Oakley made her debut on the 2021 AFR Young Rich List worth an estimated $63 million.Credit:
The Hannans did well on the six-bedroom house, bravely picking it up in the market funk of mid-2020 for $9.05 million from property investor William Phillips and Christina Sachs Phillips, of neoprene bag line Cub + Scout.
Woollahra Council approved a development application for a $2.2 million redesign by Weir Phillips Architects in April, which is expected to be acted on by Chambers and Oakley.
William and Christina Sachs Phillips sold the Bellevue Hill residence to James Hannan in 2020 for $9.05 million.Credit: Jennifer Soo
Oakley is a former model who co-founded the swimwear label Monday Swimwear in 2014, later expanded her business interests to include The Pilates Class fitness program, and having accrued a few corporate endorsements to her name along the way landed on the AFR Young Rich List in 2021.
The couple has been based in Paddington where Chambers, chief of Shore Financial and son of Chamber Cellars founder Steven Chambers, purchased his sandstone house in 2017 for $5.4 million.
2020 pays off
Still with the bullish resales from the market slump of 2020, the designer Tamarama residence that Matthew Cooper sold three years ago for $13.4 million has been resold for $17.7 million.
Cooper, best known as a former director of real estate investment trust Rubicon Group, had already commissioned a total rebuild by architect Madeleine Blanchfield and dubbed it Headland House for its prime position before he sold it.
Headland House in Tamarama was designed by architect Madeleine Blanchfield when owned by Matthew Cooper.Credit: Domain
It was purchased at the time by a trust fronted by Speed & Stracey Lawyers, whose clientele include billionaires like avid local investor Will Vicars.
It was an off-market sale this time around to Susannah and Markus Binder, the latter of whom is co-founder of Munich-based e-commerce-focussed private equity firm Mantaro Brands.
First investment
The Coogee investment owned by Annita van Iersel goes to auction on August 12.Credit: Domain
A Coogee property owned for more than 40 years by the family of former prime minister’s wife-turned-artist Annita van Iersel is set to go to auction on August 12.
Annita van Iersel was known as Annita Keating when pictured here in 1993.Credit: AAP
The three-bedroom digs opposite Coogee’s oceanfront Grant Reserve last traded for $139,000 in 1982, the year before Labor’s landslide federal election win and her former husband Paul Keating’s rise to be treasurer in the Hawke government.
The Keatings separated in 1998 and van Iersel has long been based at their former home in Woollahra, St Kevins.
The Agency’s Bethwyn Richards has offered buyers a $3 million guide.
Top-end terrace
The 1885-built terrace in Potts Point last traded in 1970 for $25,000.Credit: Domain
The Potts Point terrace of lawyer Chris Coudounaris, a former chairman of electronics retailer Strathfield and associate of Paul Keating, has sold for $10.6 million.
Chris Coudounaris recently sold his long-held Bellevue Hill home for $15 million.Credit: Edwina Pickles
The sale by Richardson & Wrench’s Jason Boon and Geoff Cox comes soon after Coudounaris pocketed $15 million for his Bellevue Hill house from David Little, the co-founder of video slot gaming company Lightning Box Games.
Coudounaris’s had owned the 1885-built terrace since 1970, paying $25,000, and it was recently renovated before being sold to Susan Lane, wife of David Lane, who was until recently the Americas chief executive at asset manager Perpetual.
The Lanes are coming from Woollahra where they sold for $14.5 million last year.
Fintech boss sells up
Fintech boss Frerk-Malte Feller, chief of Linkly, and his wife Dinah have sold their Seaforth home, making them a capital gain of more than $1 million for each year they owned it.
The Seaforth home sold by Dinah and Frerk-Malte Feller previously won the Master Builders Award for high-end construction.Credit: Domain
Feller, a former Facebook senior executive before the couple moved here in 2019 for him to take up the role as global chief operating officer at Afterpay, had purchased the contemporary five-bedroom house in 2021 for $9.15 million.
It sold to Pet Pacific boss Frank Williams for $11.3 million.
Foodie heaven
Two Providores general manager Sally Gosper and her husband, Sesion Tequila chief James Gosper, have listed their Federation family home in Roseville for $7.2 million to $7.5 million.
Sally Gosper is the general manager of artisan food purveyor Two Providores.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
The five-bedroom house was purchased for $2,444,000 in 2011, sight unseen, when they were living in New York where James was global marketing manager for Wine Australia.
Long since returned, they named the house Brooklyn after their former neighbourhood, and have added a large living area overlooking the pool as well as an impressive 1000-bottle cellar as befits early investors in Four Pillars gin.
The “ginvestors” have listed it with McGrath Wahroonga’s James Sutton given plans to downsize to Potts Point.