Rose Bay’s champion price Prominent businessman Robert Champion De Crespigny looks to have sold his Rose Bay beachfront apartment on the quiet, setting a suburb high for almost $15 million in the process. The beachfront apartment in Rose Bay sold by Robert Champion De Crespigny has sold for almost $15 million. Credit: Domain It tops the $13.5 million high set two years ago for another beachfront apartment purchased by former Dancing with the Stars dancer Kym Johnson, wife of US Shark Tank investor and cybersecurity software tycoon Rob Herjavec. Robert Champion De Crespigny has owned the Rose Bay beachfront bolthole for 20 years. Credit: Andrew De La Rue

Champion De Crespigny, founder of one of the world’s largest gold producers Normandy Mining and a former Chancellor of Adelaide University, and his wife Melanie have owned their bolthole on the Rose Bay beachfront for 20 years, having purchased it for $4 million. In recent years they have concentrated on expanding their sheep and cattle farming interests in South Australia, buying the Maylands aggregation for about $20 million in 2020. The Rose Bay apartment popped up on records as a rental earlier this year for $4000 a week with The Agency, before records show it sold to near neighbour Beverley Freedman. Don’t be surprised to see Freedman’s long-held house on the same beachfront hit the market soon no doubt with hopes of matching the $35 million sale result by the house next door through The Agency’s Ben Collier, who sold it on behalf of Laser Clinic’s Alistair Champion. SkyRidge sells

The Kangaroo Valley weekender of Larry and Sylvie Emdur has sold. Credit: Domain Larry Emdur and his wife Sylvie sold their Kangaroo Valley getaway, SkyRidge, for close to $2.8 million, making a nice gain on his $2.15 million purchase price of just three years ago. Larry Emdur sold SkyRidge after three years of ownership. Credit: Paul McMillan The striking container house designed by architect Alexander Michael sold through Belle Property’s Nick Dale, who declined to reveal the exact figure or buyer’s identity, but did at least say the deal included key furniture and a Kama Sutra sculpture in the living room. Emdur, co-host of Seven’s The Morning Show and game show The Chase, had hoped to pocket $3.5 million for it last year, but it didn’t sell.

Fortunes play out Wallis Wu, the daughter of one of China’s most senior property development industry figures and a director of the family controlled developer giant Central China Real Estate, has listed her Milsons Point pad after just three years of ownership. No doubt Wu will be hoping the September 9 auction sees a repeat of the crazy boomtime action that was at play when she and her mother Lam Li Wu purchased it for $8 million - $1.75 million over the reserve. The Milsons Point apartment owned by Wallis Wu last sold at auction for $1.75 million more than the reserve. Credit: Domain DiJones’s Nigel Mukhi has set a $7 million to $7.7 million guide.

The Wu family are long time locals, having purchased a $4.2 million pad in 1999 in the waterfront Kirribilli Grande complex developed by the late billionaire Stanley Ho and Waterhouse racing family. Wallis Wu has since moved closer to them, paying $10 million for a terrace up the road, as well as the Bellagio estate in Bowral purchased for $8.2 million in 2019. Wu’s father is “Frank” Po Sum Wu, the founder and chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Central China, which has seen its share price fall 70 per cent this year. Wu snr’s personal wealth has also dipped enough that his name has been cut from the Forbes rich list since his billionaire days of 2021. Dealmaker trades Former Ebay boss Amrita Singh has traded in Double Bay for Bellevue Hill. Credit: Natalie Boog

Former Macquarie dealmaker-turned-Blackstone senior managing director Michael Blickstead and his partner Amrita Singh, eBay’s former chief operating and marketing officer, have purchased a Bellevue Hill house for $15 million. Their purchase coincides with the off-market sale of their Double Bay terrace for $9.3 million to Point Piper-based freight industry boss Terry Tzaneros. Joint prospects The Darling Point triplex owned by Prue MacSween and Jonathan Barthelmess is on offer for $14 million. Credit: Domain Restaurateur Jonathan Barthelmess and media personality Prue MacSween have returned their jointly owned triplex in Darling Point to the market after it failed to sell two years ago.