PHOTO: Simon Marsh and Bruce Drayton with their dog Amelia outside Backpackers HQ at 172-174 Victoria Street, Potts Point, which they have owned and operated for 10 years. Picture: John Appleyard Source: News Corp Australia
Bruce Drayton and Simon Marsh have sold their Potts Point backpackers to a developer for an eye-watering figure — and they’ve already got their eye on their next purchase.
The couple were out car shopping today, and when asked what they were interested in Marsh said: “I’d like a Bentley.”
They can probably afford it, having sold Backpackers HQ, which consists of two four-storey terraces with 21 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms and an old sandstone dungeon at 172-174 Victoria Street for circa $10m via Jane Schumann, director of Raine and Horne Potts Point, and son Samuel Schumann.
“We’re very happy — it was in excess of the reserve,” says Drayton.
Marsh and Drayton plan to retire following the circa $10m sale. Picture: John Appleyard Source: News Corp Australia
The central courtyard. Source: Supplied
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