Point Piper, 3A Buckhurst Ave, is located directly on Seven Shillings Beach.
A former rugby league player who bought a Double Bay designer penthouse on schedule two years ago has just sold his waterfront home in Point Piper, but he had to lower his initial price expectations by $23 million to do so.
Bill Roney, who played for Eastern Suburbs and Parramatta in the 1950s and 1960s and later became a surgeon, and his wife Sara, first listed 3A Buckhurst Ave about two years ago with Bill Malouf of Highland Double Bay Malouf, in association with Brad Pillinger of Pillinger, in October 2023.
No price guide was provided at the time, but similar prices were offered in the $60 million range.
The sticker sold was first listed on the Highland website and more recently on realestate.com.au. Malouf had no comment when contacted. Pillinger also declined to comment.
Separate sources indicate the house sold for $37 million.
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The Roneys bought an old house on the 961 sqm block in 2011 for $10.15 million.
They rebuilt the following year.
The buyer only recently saw the property, but it had been for sale for more than two years.
They say the buyer only recently viewed the property.
Other sources say the bids were all in the $40 million range when the property was first put on the market.
At the time, sources had advised that the Roneys’ motivation for selling the Point Piper beach was to buy the soon-to-be-established new landmark Luigi Rosselli-designed Ode project at Double Bay.
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Bill Roney, back row, far right) played in the Eastern Suburbs 1960 Grand Final. Photo: Sydney Hanen
The couple paid $21.7 million through Ist City’s Brad Caldwell-Eyles and Julian Hasemer for the 262sqm three-bedroom, three-bathroom (plus study and TV room), spread across the exclusive sixth-floor circular area, with north-eastern harbor views, including a private roof terrace with plunge pool.
It was a huge price for the apartment, coming in at a whopping $96,000 per square foot.
In Point Piper, the Roneys had bought an old house on the 961-square-metre beach block on Buckhurst Ave for $10.15 million in 2011 and rebuilt it.
The ultra-modern two-storey townhouse, designed by Jamie Grounds of Jamisa Architects, was completed the following year overlooking the Harbor Bridge.
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