Russell Crowe lists $2 million Sydney investment apartment
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The Potts Point investment apartment of actor Russell Crowe – bought for $1.5 million in 2001 – has been listed for sale. More than $2 million is tipped for the top-floor apartment with Harbour Bridge and Opera House views through lattice-framed balconies accessed through three french doors.
It’s in a strata-titled triplex terrace on leafy Victoria Street. There’s secure parking with the two-level apartment that has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. It’s been listed by Jason Boon at Richardson & Wrench Elizabeth Bay and Hamish Robertson at McGrath Estate Agents.
Crowe was seemingly captivated by charm of Victoria Street – with the western sunlight filtering through the plane tree-lined Parisian-style strip, which has survived despite the high-rise development further up the street. It was bought in 2001 from the theatre director Jim Sharman, who had bought it in 1984 for $310,000.
In early 2011 after a four-year search, Crowe and his wife, Danielle Spencer, spent $10 million on a Rose Bay property, Te Puke, a 1909 house updated with a 1927 Arts and Crafts-style additions. Along the way they inspected the $50 million-plus Altona on the harbour in Point Piper in 2007, as well as unsuccessfully seeking pricey inland residence Le Manoir at Bellevue Hill, which fetched $23 million in 2009. Spencer was keen to spend more, while Crowe, preferring to keep his substantial Woolloomooloo apartment as a bolthole, only wanted to spend a modest amount.
The six-bedroom Rose Bay house is set on 1,200 square metres overlooking the fairways of the Royal Sydney Golf Club. Te Puke, pronounced ''teh-pook-eh'', is Maori for hill, and last traded at $5.5 million in 2001. Crowe and Spencer snapped it up before its forthcoming auction through Ben Collier and James Dack at McGrath Estate Agents.
