Angela and Tony Bassaly pose for a photograph at Bondi Icebergs New 12 months Day Occasion in 2021. Image: Every day Telegraph / Monique Harmer
The boss of Chemist Warehouse has snapped up a Bronte beachfront residence quietly for $25m and is preserving the Bellevue Hill mansion he purchased for $23.5m just a few years in the past.
Tony Bassaly, the managing accomplice of the pharmaceutical large, and his spouse, Angela, have purchased the landmark residence at 12 Bronte Marine Drive, as soon as owned by the F45 co-founder Rob Deutsch.
Deutsch offered up in 2022 for $17.7m to the founding father of beauty proceedures agency Cosmos Clinics, Joseph Ajaka, who offered it for $22.65m in July, 2023 to the present vendor, 42-year-old tech investor Peter Crown and his spouse, Vanessa.
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The property has offered on the quiet for about $25m
It has 14m of beachfront frontage.
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F45 founder Rob Deutsch offered the property for $17.7m in 2022. Image: Equipped
The Crowns have maybe opted to give attention to the massive 1300 hectare property they purchased from Hume Coal for near $100m in 2021.
Curiously, the title on the Marine Drive property reveals a spread of caveats by Bridge St Capital, Patriot Fairness and exhausting asset funding specialists Merricks Capital Holdings.
It’s understood the $25m sale was negotiated by Elliott Placks and Ashley Bierman of Ray White Double Bay, who offered it final time spherical.
Each brokers have been contacted for remark, however are but to return calls.
The Bronte Marine Drive property is shut by the Bayview St, Bronte property that the Bassalys offered for $16m in 2021.
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The Bassalys purchased this Victoria Street, Bellevue Hill, property for $23.5m in Might, 2021 — it includes a placing inexperienced, basketball courtroom, pool, gymnasium and sauna.
They don’t have any plans to promote it, sources say.
They’re definitely shrewd property patrons and sellers, since that 350sqm property, subsequent door to the previous dwelling of the late actor Heath Ledger, set a brand new per-square-metre document on the time.
And the Victoria Rd, Bellevue Hill “architectural mansion” — with placing inexperienced, basketball courtroom, pool, gymnasium and sauna — can be price significantly greater than the $23.5m they purchased it for in Might, 2021.
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It’s not clear if the couple intend to make use of the three-level Bronte property as their beachhouse or on-sell it.
With a 14m frontage, it gives uninterrupted grandstand views of Bronte Seaside and the Pacific Ocean.
Easy entertaining is on the forefront of the design, with a leisure decrease degree full with a cocktail bar, cinema and walk-in wine cellar.
There’s a resort-like north-facing backyard with pavilion and mineral pool, leisure pavilion and outside kitchen.