Cate Blanchett at last week’s Venice Film Festival. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain.
Hollywood star Cate Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton, have sold their $12m two-storey apartment in the historic Astor apartment building in Sydney’s CBD.
This is the same pad where Barry Humphries famously upset neighbours in the 1980s, by joining two apartments with a Hollywood-style staircase without getting permission from the owners’ corporation.
The now five-bedroom residence, listed in March with Ken Jacobs of Christies, attracted 3000 views in the first 12 days on realestate.com.au with the advertisement even advising it was “owned by Academy Award-winning actor Cate Blanchett”.
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The famous staircase.
It leads to the bedrooms.
Well-placed sources have revealed the apartment in the 1923-built landmark building at 123 Macquarie Street has sold in the “double-digit” millions, the first in the building to do so.
It’s the largest in the block, with 400 sqm of internal space and with a north-easterly aspect.
There are views over Sydney Opera House, the Royal Botanic Garden and the main Harbour.
And large formal living and dining rooms, a chef’s kitchen, large casual living area and two decent-sized bedrooms downstairs, one with an ensuite.
Head up the semi-spiral staircase to the master suite, which has its own study, dressing room and ensuite. Plus two more bedrooms and a bathroom.
Magnificent views.
Fine dining.
Blanchett and Upton had bought it for $8m from the Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris five years ago.
They’d moved to Britain — where they live with their four children in a historic English manor in East Sussex called Highwell House that cost $6.25m in 2016 — but they’d wanted the Astor apartment as their Sydney bolthole.
There’s marble in the chef kitchen …
… And also the bathrooms.
The couple had previously lived in the Hunters Hill mansion Bulwarra, purchased for $10m in 2004. They thought they’d sold that for $19.8m in 2015, but the deal fell through. It still set a suburb record when it sold for $18m in 2017.
They sold their Berowra Creek holiday home for $1.7m last Christmas which had cost $1,495,000 in 2004.
The only Sydney property they now own is a harbourside Elizabeth Bay investment apartment bought for $1.92 million in 2013.
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