Sutton car dealer family get jump on spring listing Edgecliff penthouse for $6 million

Former car dealer Neil Sutton and his son Scott know a good time to sell, opting to list their penthouse atop the Eastpoint tower in Edgecliff ahead of the spring rush.

The listing follows last year’s sell-off of family real estate interests, including the Horizon penthouse for $9.8 million, along with Scott’s DA-approved patch of grass in Bellevue Hill for $6 million, and a nearby modernist house for $7.31 million to Ray White chairman Brian White.

The three-bedder in Edgecliff was purchased in 2007 for $4.125 million, just a few months after Sutton snr bought his home on the Darling Point waterfront for $7 million.

It hits the market through Pillinger’s Brad Pillinger for about $6 million.

Having purchased the property in 2007 for $4.125 million, it returns to the market for $6 million. Photo: Supplied

All the right moves for ex-soloist

Former Australian Ballet leading soloist Jayne Kaplan (nee Beddoe) and her husband, rally car champion and owner of Hunter Holden, Adam Kaplan, have listed their Hunters Hill home for $8.5 million.

Jayne and Adam Kaplan’s Hunters Hill property is on the market. Photo: Supplied

This is the five-bedroom residence with a pool that is next door to Bulwarra, the historic home owned until recently by Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, until they sold it last year for $18 million.

Nineteen years after the Kaplans purchased the north-facing property from former executive headhunter Warwick Bates and his wife Carol for $2.1 million, it goes to auction on September 13 through McGrath’s Tracey Dixon and Brent Courtney.

The five-bedroom residence has a price guide of $8.5 million. Photo: Supplied

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Sprinting to a sale in Lane Cove

Brian and Ally Thorburn’s Lane Cove house is going to auction on September 15. Photo: Supplied

Former Australian Rugby Union commercial director Brian Thorburn has a busy few months coming up as a board member of Prince Harry’s Invictus Games, being hosted in Sydney this October.

So he’d best get the sale of the Lane Cove home he shares with his wife Ally out of the way at its September 15 auction, slated through Belle Property’s Simon Harrison.

Having bought it in 2002 for $880,000 it now comes with an impressive games and media room – as befits a sporting tragic – and returns to the market for $4 million

Simon Harrison of Belle Property has the listing. Photo: Supplied

Totally in vogue

Film producer Tim Berriman and his partner Anna Utzon, great niece of Sydney Opera House architect Jorn Utzon, and a former art director of Vogue Living, are selling their 1960s-era Bayview home for $3.35 million.

Tim Berriman and Anna Utzon are preparing to part with their Bayview digs. Photo: Supplied

The property was purchased by the former Palm Beach locals a year ago for $2.85 million and has been renovated since.

Claudio Marcolongo, of LJ Hooker Avalon, has the listing.

Double delight for Cremorne school

One of two Cremorne houses that private school Redlands recently bought. Photo: Google

Who doesn’t wish they owned a house backing onto land-locked private school Redlands? And a tired bungalow on Winnie Street at that.

Two such houses, estimated by Raine & Horne’s David Buttell to be worth $2.2 million each as standalone sales on the open market, have been purchased off-market for $5.5 million each – or $11 million for two in this case – by the Cremorne school.

Having already bought up most of the free-standing houses and art deco apartments on the block the stocks are only rising for the few character homes yet to be swallowed up by the school.