Spotify boss buys $9.5 million former Love Island house

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The run-up to Christmas traditionally sees a run of settlements, so buyers are in their new homes before the break. Take Spotify Australia boss Mikaela Lancaster and her partner, iflix founder Mark Britt, who took the keys to their new holiday home for $9.5 million this week.

**The star location of last year’s Love Island Australia reality TV show sold for $9.5 million. Photo: Domain**

**Mikaela Lancaster, managing director of Spotify Australia, bought in Byron Bay’s hinterland. Photo: Supplied**

The couple have bought Byron Bay’s landmark Amileka property, the 10 hectare getaway in Federal that starred as the backdrop to last year’s reality TV show Love Island Australia.

The striking Sharon Fraser-designed property was initially listed with a guide of $11.5 million to $12.5 million by McGrath’s Nick Dunn on behalf of Kingscliff-based property investor Sarah Johnson. She paid $3.5 million for it in 2015 from The Farm founder Emma and Tom Lane, of the Oroton accessories family.

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Lancaster and Britt are Inner West locals, based in Croydon, and sold their former Pittwater getaway at Clareville early this year for $10.25 million to art collector and Dakota Capital chairman Danny Goldberg.