PHOTO: Kerri-Anne Kennerley
The queen of Australian television Kerri-Anne Kennerley has spent $13.7 million on her Double Bay harbourfront, having sold her longtime Woollahra home last August on delayed settlement terms.
Inspecting dozens of downsizer apartments, KAK had the one special criteria – it had to be pet friendly for her eight-year-old golden retriever Digger.
She’s leaving Woollahra after 25 years, with the then Midday host buying it through Bart Doff, the veteran Double Bay agent who died last month.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley at her former Woollahra home with her dog “Digger”. Picture: Sam Ruttyn
At the time, we reported Doff announced the house on the market at $2.16 million, with it knocked down after another 32 bids to Kennerley and her late husband John, who wanted space for his train sets, at $2.49 million.
“You got what you wanted, darling,” John affectionately told KAK as they embraced after the Laing & Simmons agent brought down the hammer.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Digger and the late John Kennerley.
Vaucluse’s Peter and Candice Berger have emerged as the $22 million buyers, with plans already lodged with Woollahra Council to update the two-storey 1885 home by Marker Architecture and Design.
Kennerley has bought in the upmarket harbourfront cul-de-sac, Gladswood Gardens, Double Bay.
“A new home, a new start, a new life,” Kennerley advised.
The sale of her Woollahra home was orchestrated by Craig Wing, the former NRL champion turned buyers’ agent, who she highly recommended as ethical and discreet.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley’s new home is in Gladswood Gardens.
“Quite the contrast to the churn and burn estate agents I’ve encountered over the past six months,” she said.
Kennerley had told friends of her long-time Woollahra pad: “If I get a silly price, I’ll consider it … it’s too big for me.”
Other friends said she was fed up with the pool maintenance and had no need for the self-contained studio.
An internal lift had been added in recent years above a rear three-car garage.
Turns out she got her “silly price”.
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