A simple 100-year-old bungalow has fetched an eye-watering price as the highest ever for an oceanfront home in Australia. 👇
31 Gaerloch Ave, Tamarama is understood to have sold for about $45m.A simple 1920s bungalow that sold for £9750 in 1959 has sold for the highest oceanfront price ever in Australia.is on 1100 sqm of oceanfront reserve above the Bondi to Bronte walk with views up and down the coast.
The sales agent, Ken Jacobs of Forbes Global Properties, is overseas and can’t be contacted and Simon Cohen is known to be the buyer’s agent. The buyer in 1959 was radio funnyman Harry Griffiths, who starred in the comedy sketch McCackie Mansions with Roy “Mo” Rene.23 Gaerloch Ave, Tamarama sold for $11m last September to Will Vicars.
That, too, had incredible panoramic 180-degree views of the ocean, but was on just over 300 sqm of land.Manning had held the Tamarama record for his $29.2m sale of an old apartment block of five units on the oceanfront at 9 Kenneth St in October 2021 to socialite Di Maloney.
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