PHOTO: Jackie O Henderson. YAHOO LIFESTYLE
According to realestate.com.au superstar radio host Jackie O Henderson has sold her Woollahra ‘forever’ dream home for about $13m, $2m more than she paid for it in 2020.
And it’s snooping paparazzi that have driven her out.
The popular “Kyle and Jackie O” co-host won the keys for the lavish Nick Tobias-designed Edward St residence after it was on realestate.com.au for just three days in June, 2020, paying $1m above the $10m price guide to secure it.
The Wentworth Courier broke the news of the sale at the time online, with other reports that followed suggesting it would be her “forever” home.
But the photographer frenzy proved too much. “They were gazing in from the park and it’s just such a narrow street making it difficult to escape,” sources advise.
It’s unclear where Henderson’s headed next, but it’s known she is yet to buy elsewhere.
The rumour mill suggests that The Agency’s Ben Collier, who sold her the four-bedroom, three-bathroom residence with double garage overlooking Cooper Park, has now sold it for her off-market for between $12m-$13m. Sources say: “She would have taken $13m.”
Collier couldn’t be contacted at the time of publication, however other sources have confirmed the sale and price.
According to realestate.com.au, the median house price in Woollahra, has risen from $3.1m in June 2020 to sit at $4.925m today, a rise of almost 60 per cent.
The property had previously been owned by high-profile stockbroker Angus Aitken and his wife Sarah, who’d bought it for $3.3m in 2009.
But they’d done a complete transformation, working with Tobias over a two-year period on the design followed by another two years of construction.
Prior to the Henderson’s purchase in 2020, the open home was packed, an indication of the popularity of the property at the time.
There seemed to be plenty of enthusiasm as buyers walked through.
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