14 Mirimar Ave, Bronte, is expected to sell soon following today’s auction.
The stunning Bronte home of global cancer specialist GenesisCare founder Dan Collins and his wife, Cassandra, has passed in on a vendor bid of $16.5m at a private auction today.
PPD Real Estate principal Alexander Phillips had three registered bidders for the five-bedroom, four-bathroom home with five-car garage at 14 Mirimar Avenue. It has breathtaking ocean views.
Phillips wasn’t quoting a guide during the short campaign, but was using the suburb record of $17.9m — set on July 7 — and last June’s previous top of $16.8m as reference points. There’d been hopes this home may beat the record. But the rumour is that the reserve today had been set at around $17m.
Phillips says one of the three who’d registered was an entrepreneur who’d come back for a second look at the property only today. It’s expected he’s going to make an offer around the vendor bid of $16.5m.
He said others who had been interested at the $15m to $16m mark have been calling since the 12.45pm auction wondering what happened.
When auctioneer Clarence White called for bids, someone tried to make a lowball offer, which was rejected.
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Dan and Cassandra Collins had purchased the home for $14.5m just four years ago.
If anything was going to beat the price that green energy entrepreneur Carl Prins and his wife, Kate, paid in Gardyne Ave on July 7 in an off-market deal — also through Phillips with Ray White TRG’s Oliver Lavers — this had looked to be it.
It truly is a special home, with far superior views than the Gardyne St property.
For the Wentworth Courier House of the Week, Cassandra confirmed she and her husband had just finished 18 months of renovations, but are now moving to the US after GenesisCare’s $1.6 billion purchase of 200 cancercare centres there.
The heated mineral pool is bathed in northerly sunshine.
Great outdoors.
“We’ve made it our dream home, but of course nothing is ever really your forever home” she’d said.
Both the Mirimar Avenue home and the Gardyne Street home have five bedrooms and four bathrooms and are designer residences with ocean views, though the Mirimar Avenue property had a five car-garage rather than two.
And it was a cut-above in design terms and features along with the views.
Knockout views.
The home offers lift access from the garage to all three levels.
The Mirimar Avenue home was previously owned by Peter Scutt — founder and CEO of Mable, an online service to help the aged or disabled find support workers — and his wife, Nadia Jacob, the founder and director of CrEight, which specialises in residential design.
They rebuilt an old apartment block — bought for $3m in 2013 — to create this incredible new home that was snapped up by Collins in an off-market deal via Pauline Goodyer of Goodyer, who’s now selling Scutt and Jacob’s next home in 22 Thompson Street with a $14m-$15m guide.
The Mirimar Ave home is a custom-built residence on a vantage point between Bronte and Tamarama beaches, with views across the full sweep of the beach and the ocean horizon to Mackenzies Bay.
The temperature-controlled wine cellar has room for 720 bottles.
The five-car garage was a standout feature.
Built by award-winning Master Builder Mardini Constructions, it offers the latest in home technology with level lift access from the garage to all three levels.
Walls of glass maximise the ocean vista. The super-stylish interiors are by Amy Sharma of The Design Spot.
The top floor is devoted to living and leads out to a poolside entertainer’s haven, with heated mineral pool, bathed in northerly sunshine.
Sleeping accommodation includes four bedrooms on one level and a self-contained lower level apartment. The private master retreat has a dressing room and a stunning ensuite that includes an Italian bathtub with a view.
Other highlights are the nine-metre terraces that extend from three levels; the wide oak floorboards; and an aether marble kitchen with butler’s pantry, Wolf dual fuel range and Subzero fridges.
The four luxurious bathrooms have underfloor heating, Gessi appointments and heated towel rails.
There’s also C-Bus lighting, sound and airconditioning, electric blinds and a temperature-controlled wine cellar for 720 bottles.
It’s only 150 metres to the sand, sea and surf.
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