Bec + Bridge fashion designer lists Mosman home for $18 million

Fashion designer Bridget Yorston, one half of the Australian label Bec + Bridge, has listed her stunning Mosman home with a price guide of $18 million.

Built circa 1910, the Queen Anne Federation house has been immaculately reinvented thanks to interior designers Handelsmann + Khaw.

Set on a near level 1106-square-metre block near Clifton Gardens, the five-bedroom, three-bathroom house was also renovated about 20 years ago by Howard Tanner of TKD Architects, adding an ultra-modern glass box at the rear of the property.

Featured in Vogue Living magazine, the grandeur of the home has only been built on since then with heated limestone flooring, Calacatta Monet marble in the main bathroom, a Lacanche Beaune French cooker with a double oven in the chef’s kitchen, a 500-bottle wine cellar, a 13 metre-heated swimming pool and spa as well Dangar Barin Smith landscaping.

Yorston founded Bec + Bridge more than two decades ago with her friend and business partner Becky Cooper and has become one of Australia’s most successful exports with the designs worn by women all over the world.

She purchased the home for $14.05 million, in her husband’s name Reverend Ed Yorston who is assistant chaplain at The King’s School, from NSW Treasury Corporation chief David Deverall and his wife, Fiona Nyman, in 2022.

The Yorstons upgraded from another Federation house in Mosman, which they sold for $6.85 million in 2023.

Their current home is selling through Geoff Smith of Ray White Lower North Shore who declined to comment and is scheduled for a September 18 auction.

TV boss swaps Randwick for Woollahra

In Sydney’s eastern suburbs, Seven West Media’s group managing director for the television division, Angus Ross, and his wife, Joanne, have relocated to Woollahra for $9.35 million.

The Ross family have emerged as the buyers of the upmarket terrace of former aviation boss Michael Reed and his wife, Megan, after the property settled in their name this week.

The Ross family made the move over from their Randwick Federation home, which they sold for $13.2 million earlier this year, making the couple a paper profit of $1.2 million in a year.

Angus, a longstanding executive at billionaire Kerry Stokes’ company, was elevated to the newly created role of group managing director for Seven Television in June last year in a major restructure that downsized the company’s executive team, as well as about 150 redundancies.

The company was carved up into three divisions: television, digital and Western Australia with Ross telling one media outlet the company’s streaming site 7Plus would leapfrog Channel 9 (the owner of this masthead) and the ABC, to become the dominant free-to-air streaming platform this year.

The Ross family swapped their Randwick abode for the Reed family’s two-storey home off market through Ben Collier of The Agency, who declined to comment.

Michael Reed, who was until last year a director of Chargefox, the country’s largest and fastest growing EV charging network, and his wife purchased the four-bedroom, four-bathroom Woollahra house for $3.8 million in 2019 from the Beal family. He swapped to the industry from aviation where he held a list of roles in the field, including Australia’s general manager of Air New Zealand.

Not only did the Reeds transform the Woollahra home aesthetically, they also modernised it fitting it with some of the latest home technology such as solar panels, climate control and an EV charging station since their ownership.

It has clearly paid off for them given the property’s value has increased by more than twofold in less than a decade. No doubt being close to Queen Street, Oxford Street and Centennial Parklands would have helped in the uptick in value too.

Developer’s dream

Nearby, the managing partner of development company Skyland Group, Travis Su, has listed his Bellevue Hill penthouse for $17.5 million.

The father (Ray Su) and son company developed the Villia building and was designed by architects Henderson & Co.

Prior to developing luxury homes, the Su family was in the business of antiques, art and furniture dealings for more than 30 years, according to the Skyland website. Their first family development was in Double Bay in 2008, and they have remained developing in the east.

Travis, who is 30 years old, is now ready to offload the completed penthouse in their yet-to-be-completed Bellevue Hill development.

Spanning 360 square metres internally, the four-bedroom, five-bathroom unit has its own private lift, indoor heated salt pool, spa and sauna.

Framed by floor-to-ceiling Vitrocsa glass doors, the unit has sweeping views across Sydney Harbour, Rose Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

It is selling through David Malouf of Highland Double Bay in an expressions of interest campaign.