TV royalty Ray Martin, Australia’s most honoured tv persona, has quietly bought his Waverton residence of 34 years for greater than $8m. Image: Rohan Kelly
Media royalty Ray Martin, Australia’s most honoured tv persona, has quietly bought his Sydney residence of 34 years for greater than $8m.
Since 1990 he and his household have been residing in Finisterre, a five-bedroom home with pool at Waverton on Sydney’s North Shore, strolling distance to Waverton Station and Victoria Cross Metro.
The McHatton St home, on 798 sqm of land got here to market on New Yr’s Day and bought two weeks later for between $8m and $8.5m. Ray and his spouse of greater than 50 years, Dianne, had paid $900,000 for the unique Thirties residence again in 1990.
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The Martins lived on the handle for 34 years.
The Martins have been very personal about their Sydney residence the place they raised two youngsters, Jenna and Luke.
The couple additionally owned a property on the Sunshine Coast paying $250,000 for a home in Coolum in 2001 and promoting it in 2022 for $2.65m.
Their Waverton home has due north to rear facet, an out of doors terrace for entertaining, and a glass-framed mosaic pool and skylit pool home with kitchenette.
Peter Chauncey, of McGrath, had the itemizing and negotiated the immediate sale.
Waverton is a northside Sydney harbourside suburb that additionally flies below radar. There are simply 411 homes within the suburb, fewer than 10 commerce in a 12 months that means the median home worth is never recorded.
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The house bought for greater than $8m.
One of many 5 bedrooms.
The house boasts a glass-framed mosaic pool.
The suburb document is $15.5m for a home in Larkin St that bought in 2023 however the Martin’s house is the fourth highest home sale in Waverton, and the highest sale of the brand new 12 months.
The legendary tv host, aged 80, gained 5 Gold and 26 Silver Logies over his six-decade profession, was awarded an Order of Australia for his work in media, charities and with indigenous Australians and even had a postage stamp launched in his honour.
He’s greatest identified for the present affairs program 60 Minutes which he launched on Channel 9 in 1978.
Extra just lately he accomplished a sequence on dying and dying on SBS known as Ray Martin: The Final Goodbye.
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