Nomad Group’s Al and Rebecca Yazbek have paid about $11 million for Hambleton House on Albert Park’s best street in Melbourne’s bayside.
A new chapter awaits Melbourne’s grand mansion Hambleton House after the culinary duo behind the Nomad Group of restaurants,While the final sale price is undisclosed, it is understood the couple paid about $11 million for the original-condition mansion on exclusive St Vincent Place North.guiding between $9.5 million to $10 million, and was billed as a chance to return the boom-time mansion to its former glory.
The 11-bedroom residence had been operated as a facility for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities until 2021, when it was shut down following a 2020 COVID outbreak that exposed appalling living conditions.Before its closure, Hambleton House had been operating as a “supported residential service” which is state-regulated but privately owned.
Sitting on a 624-square-metre block, Hambleton House comes with blue stone foundations and three-street frontage, including a 48-metre side boundary along Montague Street and parking via Draper Street. A brick extension was added to the property’s rear to provide more accommodation space.. Located in the converted 1890s neo-gothic Melbourne Stock Exchange, Reine & La Rue was dubbed Victoria’s best new restaurant by The Age Good Food Guide Awards for 2024.
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