ANZ Tower Penthouse Sells For Record Price
After three-years on the market, the luxurious residence changes hands.
By Terry Christodoulou
Thu, Jun 3, 2021 3:07pm
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Ian Malouf, founder of Dial-a-Dump, has purchased the ANZ Tower penthouse owned by property developer John Boyd for a record $60 million.
The sale of the impressive apartment sets a national record for a single, built apartment.
Mr Malouf, who sold Dial-a-Dump in 2018 to Bingo Industries, bought the penthouse on Saturday night.
ANZ Tower “sky mansion” was initially listed in 2018, with a price guide of $60m – $66m with Bill Malouf of LJ hooker Double Bay and Christie’s Ken Jacobs. The sale is currently the most expensive residential sale in the country this year.
ANZ Tower was complete in 2013, with the home of Mr Boyd and his wife not yet finalised until 2015. Inside sees interiors by Blainey North spread across the 2000sqm abode.
The penthouse is accessed by an express lift from a private car park. The vast floor plan includes a conference room, club-like study, gym, cigar room, and unbelievable rooftop complete with swimming pool, two terraces and a cabana lounge.
Despite the penthouse’s record price, construction is underway of James Packer’s $60m two-storey apartment in Crown Residences at Barangaroo alongside a $140m consolidation of the top three floors of Lendlease’s neighbouring One Sydney Harbour Tower 1 development.
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The imposing stone structures, with towers, turrets and a hot tub room, lord over the landscape near the mountain resort town of Sandpoint.
By Liz Lucking
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Idaho is not a place that’s often associated with Medieval castles, but a pair have just hit the market for $6.25 million.
The imposing stone structures have towers, turrets, ramparts, arrow-slit windows and even a drawbridge, and might just be the most authentic-looking castles this side of the Atlantic.
“Who expects to see a castle like this in Idaho?” said listing agent Brenda Burk of Coldwell Banker Schneidmiller Realty, who brought the property to the market last week. They are, she said, “extremely unusual.”
Schweitzer Castle and Château de Melusine, as they’re known, stand within Schweitzer Mountain Resort in the Selkirk Mountains and overlook the nearby mountain resort town of Sandpoint. They take in panoramic views of Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho’s largest lake.
The pair of ski-in/ski-out homes each have three bedrooms, two bathrooms and three stories, Burk explained. They are “so authentic,” she said. “Every single stone was handlaid.”
Schweitzer Castle, she said, wasn’t built for “functionality,” but has been modernized and adapted and now has everything a 21st-century residence requires, along with a dungeon, which for some buyers may also be a requisite.
The chateau, meanwhile, has a hot tub room with mountain views, as well as a garage.
The property is being sold furnished, and will come complete with the hand-carved statues, armor, mounted swords, stained-glass windows and a host of antiques dating to the 15th and 16th centuries.
The owner, an antique collector who couldn’t be reached for comment, “is always looking for that hidden jewel and he found that here,” Burk said.
The next custodian is likely to stem from a varied pool of buyers, Burk said, that would include “the trophy-home buyer, someone who can say ‘I own a castle.’”
The property could also appeal to someone looking for a vacation home, or a multi-generational estate, and beyond that “there’s the dreamers,” she said. “We definitely try to market to people who like Medieval history or maybe do Renaissance fairs.”
The seller “really wants it to go to someone with the same passion.”
