A yarn about scoring your first home buyers, this definitely ain’t.
Five days out from Christmas, Victoria just smashed itself a new record for the state’s most expensive house sale.
The monolithic mansion sitting at 9 Towers Road in, you guessed it, Toorak, inked a deal with a new owner earlier this week in a deal that’s reportedly worth just over $26million.
Twenty. Six. Million. Dollars.
By all accounts, that would put it above the previous mark set back in 2010 when a cliff-top mansion in Portsea went for a shade under that mark.
It’s understood that seven buyers, all of whom were local families (duh), had shown interest in the Towers Rd property, which hit the market back in October with an expected price tag of around $30million.
The revised sale total is still enough to put it into the record books as the most outrageously expensive house ever sold in Victoria.
Just look at the bloody place, would you? It’s like walking into MONA.
That museum-resemblance is no coincidence either. The property was sold by Daniel and Danielle Besen, who are not only members of one Australia’s richest families (and certified billionaires in and of themselves), but are noted arts patrons and entrepreneurs as well.
The couple, who separated in October, are in the process of selling off a $50million real estate portfolio, which also includes a 28-hectare “weekender” mansion on the Mornington Peninsula which currently carries a price tag of $20million in its own right.
The Toorak megalith, which is windowless from the street, occupies a 2000sq m block on the corner of two of Melbourne’s more exclusive streets. It sports four bedrooms, all of which have en suites and walk-in wardrobes bigger than most of the houses you’ve ever lived in. The property also has an art gallery, a wine room, a heated outdoor pool, a six-car garage, and something called a “retreat.”
The house took some six years to build with construction costs running to a cool $22million and, bloody get this, it has never been lived in.
Options, pals. It’s nice to have them (we imagine).
Source: RealEstate.com.au.
Photo: RealEstate.com.au.
