The posh London mansion that billionaire businesswoman and pop star Rihanna rented for £18,000 (US$21,895) per month while she lived in the British capital has just sold for £27.5 million.

The A-lister called the pad home for some two-and-a-half years—during which the more than 6,300-square-foot home’s contemporary interiors appeared across her social media channels—before moving out in 2020, Mansion Global previously reported.

Fully refurbished and modernized, the eight-bedroom home is St. John’s Wood, a leafy upscale neighborhood north of Regent’s Park that’s full of townhouses and megamansions.

It’s also “the only one of Royal architect John Shaw’s original villas on St. John’s Wood Park to have survived into the 21st century,” said Stephen Lindsay, the head of the North London and St John’s Wood office at Savills, which had the listing with Aston Chase.

The house has a number of reception and family rooms, alongside formal and casual dining rooms, a study, a family kitchen and a gym. There’s plenty of outdoor space too, in the form of a terrace and a sizable rear garden.

There’s also planning permission in place to expand the home to 16,000 square feet, nearly tripling the interior space, and allowing a basement with a pool and spa, according to the listing.

The “We Found Love” singer is not the only notable resident to have called the manse home. Diamond tycoon Daniel Francis, a shareholder at De Beers in the mid-1800s, was the original owner of the five-story mansion.

The house was purchased by a family from overseas, according to the brokerages. Mansion Global couldn’t identify the sellers.

Friday’s sale equated to £3,500 per square foot, a record price for the St. John’s Wood area,” said Mark Pollack, co-founding director of Aston Chase. It reflects “the substantial planning consent obtained, the large plot and the secure carriage drive, which are amenities normally associated with homes further out in the suburbs of London.”

A representative for Rihanna couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

Source : MansionGlobal

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A Beverly Hills, California, home where Greta Garbo once hung her hat hit the market Friday for $10 million—a $2 million price cut.

The six-bedroom, six-bathroom house was first listed last summer for $12 million with a different brokerage. It was removed from the market in November, and relisted with Markus Canter, Luxury Properties director at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. The Swedish-born film star lived there in the 1930s, he said.

Located in the coveted Crest Streets, the property has been reimagined and expanded by the interior designer Nicole Sassaman. She purchased the estate in 2003 for $1.4 million, according to records with PropertyShark, and began a renovation that was one of her biggest projects to date, according to her website.

“She truly created things out of thin air, adding a second story and creating a pool and yard in the previously unused space,” the site said. “The space was built out to have the sophistication and fun of a hillside estate with the balance of a comfortable and smart family home.

The views overlooking the Los Angeles skyline and ocean beyond are “simply a cherry on top,” the site said. Sassaman did not immediately return a request for comment.

Warm woods, stonework and walls of windows are hallmarks of the design, which has an open layout, according to the listing. There’s a kitchen with custom cabinetry and an adjacent dining area.

Outside is an “oasis,” the listing noted, with a pool and spa with panoramic views, several spots for lounging and dining and mature plantings.

“The property embodies the essence of glamor, historic allure and the coveted California luxury lifestyle,” Canter said.

Source : MansionGlobal

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For someone who no longer lives permanently in Sydney, Nicole Kidman likes to take a deep-pocketed interest in our local real estate.

Despite being based in the United States’ country music capital Nashville, Kidman and her husband Keith Urban now claim half a dozen apartments in harbourside Milsons Point.

The latest settled this week to take her tally in the one building to more than $27.5 million.

A three-bedroom spread on level 15 of the landmark Latitude building is Kidman’s latest purchase for $7.725 million, which like her other apartments are held in the name of corporate interests fronted by her childhood friend Annette Rechner.

 

The purchase – not far from her mother Janelle’s home on the lower north shore – is the most expensive in the building after one of the penthouses that had previously sold for $8 million was on-sold for a loss two years ago by billionaire pub magnate Chris Morris and his wife Sharron Sills at $7.65 million.

The Hollywood A-lister’s latest digs was sold privately by co-founder of North Shore Coaching College Andy Mak.

Kidman and Urban’s holding in the building now totals six apartments, of which their crowning glory is the penthouse they bought from Mark Bouris for $6 million in 2009.

 

It was consolidated with a $7 million pad next door in 2012 to create a super-spread for their Sydney visits.

That leaves three other apartments on the floors below, picked up for $2.68 million, $2.78 million and $1.35 million in more recent years.

Source: Nine.com

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Who can forget the sale of his clifftop home in Dover Heights: purchased for $6.8 million in 2011, it was the shock sale of 2017 when Emdur and his wife Sylvie sold it to their mate, celebrity accountant Anthony Bell after he made an unsolicited offer of $11.5 million that was “too good to refuse”.

More recently Sylvie has been overseeing a major redesign of their Berowra Waters weekender set on the north-facing waterfront at Berowra Creek and purchased in late 2019 for $1.1 million.

Having recently completed a rebuild of the waterfront house with private jetty it is already being quietly offered to buyers by Ray White Prestige’s Noel Nicholson ahead of a forthcoming sales campaign.

Nicholson is no stranger to the high-profile home owners of Berowra Waters. His last notable sale locally was the weekender of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton in late 2019 for $1.7 million.

Meanwhile, the Emdurs traded in their pad at The Rocks for $4.3 million last year to relocate to a $7.35 million apartment in Darling Point, and are expected to return their Kangaroo Valley getaway, SkyRidge, to the market later this year.

Their Kangaroo Valley property was built from shipping containers and designed by architect Alexander Michael before the Emdurs purchased it in 2020 for $2.15 million. It was listed for $3.5 million last year, but didn’t sell.

Fairfax says sell

The Bellevue Hill apartment owned by a Fairfax family trust, but most recently linked to Charles Fairfax, the youngest son of the late society queen Lady (Mary) Fairfax, has been listed with a $4.5 million guide.

Sotheby’s Michael Pallier has set a June 21 auction for the three-bedroom apartment in the Parc building, which is controlled by the trust’s directors and executors of Lady Fairfax’s estate Bruce Solomon, James Momsen, Peter Done and Lee Thomas.

It last traded in 2005 for $2.35 million when purchased by the Fairfax trust, which is registered to Charles’s former Watsons Bay home.

Charles’s home real estate reshuffle goes back to 2021 when he and his wife Kate purchased a house on Vaucluse’s Coolong Road for just shy of $15 million, but given the extensive renovation required they instead sold it last year to lawyer John Landerer for $18 million.

There is no renovation work required on the Fairfaxes’ new home, a contemporary six-bedroom house that was sold for $22 million late last year by Quofore chief executive Desmond Miller and his wife Barbara.

Fashionable flip

Fashion designer Wayne Cooper and Sarah Marsh have returned their Byron Bay hinterland home to the market almost a year to the day that they settled on it for $5.09 million.

It is perhaps a fitting listing this week given the timing coincides with Australian Fashion Week, arguably the most significant event on the fashion calendar.

The Myocum property with tennis court and swimming pool is returning to the market with a guide of $4.5 million to $5 million with McGrath’s Will Phillips.

Conde to farewell Mittagong

The Mittagong olive grove Woodlands, owned by medico Susan Conde, the daughter of the late, reclusive 2UE owner Stewart Lamb, has been listed for $10 million to $11 million.

The 40-hectare property last traded in 2008 for $4.2 million when sold by booksellers Anne McCormick and Derek McDonnell, and the 1890s homestead restored and renovated by architect Howard Tanner in the years since alongside Conde’s award-winning olive oil Scarlet Grove.

Savills’ Martin Schiller has been appointed to sell it in conjunction with fashion designer Collette Dinnigan’s husband Bradley Cocks, of the DiJones franchise.

The Lamb family were long-time owners of 2UE, buying and selling the station more than once to their great financial benefit. It was first sold to Kerry Packer in 1985 for $20 million as part of their broader media sell-off that included Nine Adelaide, and the station returned to the Lambs for $4 million a few years later only to be sold again in 2001 to Southern Cross Broadcasting for $90 million.

Conde won’t be homeless after the sale of Woodlands. Her Sydney base is the penthouse atop the Renzo Piano-designed Macquarie Apartment building, for which her father set a $6.6 million record in 1999.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

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The singer – whose hits include ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home’ and ‘Fair Trade’ – has recently sold off a string of US properties for $26million and he is not looking to replace them, it has been reported.

In 2020, he opened the doors to his mammoth Toronto mansion – a custom-built 50,000 square foot property featuring an NBA-regulation size indoor basketball court.

He bought his Beverly Hills property only a year ago from British pop star Robbie Williams for a reported $75million. Williams paid $33million for it in 2015.

The property, a sprawling 10-bedroom estate spread across three acres of land in Beverly Hills, was sold to the hip hop star in an off-market deal.

The Tuscan style property includes a main house measuring some 25,000 square feet containing ten bedrooms and no less than twenty-two bathrooms.

Other amenities include an eleven car garage, a wine cellar, a gym, a game room, a professional screening room, an elevator, a tennis court, a mosaic tiled pool and an outdoor kitchen.

Branden and Rayni Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates jointly hold the listing with Marc Bretter of Maywood Property Group.

Drake recently offloaded his Los Angeles compound – a trio of properties in Hidden Hills for $22million.

He sold two of three properties to LA Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford for $11million – and the third and largest to Makan Delrahim, a former US assistant attorney general, for $14.8million.

The main property features an impressive 12,500 square feet – and together the three properties amount to 6.7 acres.

The home has a classic English Tudor style, which contrasts with the over-the-top exterior, including a pool decorated with statues of nude women.

Drake has no plans of buying another US property in the near future, a source told The New York Post.

Source: Daily Mail

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