Casa Mia, the Oyama Avenue, Manly Beaux Arts-style harbourfront sells
Casa Mia, the faux Spanish harbourside pile in Manly, has been sold.
Designed by the picture theatre architect Lewis Kaberry, the roaring 1920s abode built for the Edwards family was extensively renovated in the 1950s and 1970s and ended up as flats.
It last sold at $5.65 million in 2007 and its most recent asking price through Donovan Prestige was $5 million-plus. Vince Donovan told Title Tattle he was under instructions not to reveal the selling price of the much talked about property.
The harbourfront property with slipway and boat ramp is a 823 sq m property.
Title Tattle recalls the Oyama Avenue property had traded for $520,000 in 1981 when bought by Dawn Harding and her late husband Ron, an ice-skating champion.
Greg Hancock, the events organiser, bought the imposing mansion for $4 million in 2001.
Then the lawyer Wally Meakes, who played for the rugby union premiership-winning Manly Marlins in the 1980s, and his lawyer wife, Julie bought it for about $5 million in 2005.
They sold to plastic surgeon Mark McGovern who has been trying to sell for years with approval for three luxury penthouse style apartments which featured on radicalterrace.com.au.
Manly Council has variously considered its heritage sometimes resolving for its preservation, but currently with any redevelopment restrictions.
