Nicole Kidman buys fifth apartment in same building

Nicole Kidman has followed age-old investment advice to always buy what you know, snapping up a fifth apartment in Milsons Point’s Latitude building.

Settlement records show Kidman’s corporate interests have paid $1.35 million for a one-bedroom pad with a car space on level four overlooking the tree tops into Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden.

John Pagden, of his eponymous agency, declined to comment on the star’s plans for the apartment but it comes a year after her same investment company bought a two-bedroom pad in the same building for $2.78 million. That property is leased for $1250 a week.

While Kidman hasn’t owned property in her own name since 1993 – when she gave a one-bedroom apartment she bought in Mosman for $81,000 to her younger sister, Antonia – she owns property in a range of company names, of which the latest is fronted by one of her oldest friends Annette Rechner.

Kidman and husband Keith Urban’s Sydney home is a consolidation of two penthouses atop Latitude, the first bought in 2009 for $6 million from Mark Bouris and its neighbour in 2012 for $7 million.

Another apartment in the building was added to her portfolio in 2011 for $2.68 million, with suggestions locally it is used as a private gym.