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Fintech investor Danita Lowes has bought into the Sydney 1920s apartment block The Astor. 

It’s the apartment recently sold by UK-based theatrical couple Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton.

Their little-used bolthole had $12 million hopes through Christie’s International agent Ken Jacobs.

Originally three apartments, the two-storey Macquarie Street abode was once home to entertainer Barry Humphries and then mortgage broker Mark Bouris.

Lower heads Euclid Capital Partners.

She owns at Longueville with husband David Fite.

The Astor is the 12-storey, 1920s company title block that once dominated not only the city skyline but Sydney society when Circular Quay was quaintly industrial and the Harbour Bridge yet to be built.

All of the apartments featured Jarrah timber flooring, high ceilings, large windows along with Queensland maple interiors by the controversial Francis de Groot.

Completed in 1923, the Astor was the idea of entrepreneurs John and Cicely O'Brien.

The building was designed by architects Stuart Mould and Donald Esplin with a rooftop garden and basement restaurant.

Back then there were butlers and maids provided by the house manager.

Despite being the city's oldest apartment complex - and facing serious competition from many nearby new developments – it continues to attract buyers, especially when a modernised Astor apartment comes with parking nearby.
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Fintech investor Danita Lowes has bought into the Sydney 1920s apartment block The Astor

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Fintech investor Danita Lowes buys Cate Blanchett's Macquarie Street, Sydney apartment

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The theatrical couple Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton are abandoning Sydney, selling their little-used Sydney CBD bolthole as they now prefer the English countryside.
Their 1920s Astor apartment had $12 million hopes.
Originally three apartments, the two-storey Macquarie Street was once home to entertainer Barry Humphries and mortgage broker Mark Bouris (photo below) who concluded the combination of the apartments.
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It's best known for when occupied by entertainer Barry Humphries, before it sold for $800,000 in 1987, and then extended with the addition of another apartment.
It comes with sweeping semi-spiral staircase to the upper level.
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It has been reported Blanchett and her husband, playwright and ­director Andrew Upton, bought in the company title block <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/nsw/20209-bouris" target="_blank">from Bouris</a> for $8 million in 2015.
With more than 400 sqm space, it has views over the Domain to the Opera House.
Having been listed through <a href="https://www.prestigehomes.com.au/property/1P0252/sold/" target="_blank">Christe's International</a>, it was reported as sold on the weekend.
It was bought after their Hunters Hill home, Bulwarra, was sold for $18 million in 2017. They also sold their Berowra Waters weekender.
The Astor is the 12-storey complex that once dominated not only the city skyline but Sydney society.
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge engineer Lawrence Ennis would look through his telescope to check on the progress of the bridge's construction from his rental.
The Astor was Sydney's highest residential building from 1923 until 1960. Over the years its has been home to former Treasury secretary John Fraser, adman Harold Mitchell, the late Pioneer founder Sir Tristan Antico and style-setters, ad man John Nankervis and his then wife Amanda.
The Astor was Sydney's highest residential building from 1923 until 1960.
Its off-the-plan prices ranged from 1500 pounds to 2700 pounds.
The Blanchett-Upton's retain an investment apartment on the Elizabeth Bay harbourfront, but reside at Highwell House, near Crowborough in the East Sussex countryside.
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Cate Blanchett sells Astor apartment on Sydney's high society Macquarie Street

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Actor Cate Blanchett and her playwright husband Andrew Upton have sold their Hunters Hill trophy home Bulwarra.
It was the second time the A-list couple have done so as an earlier sale of the historic 1877-built residence failed to proceed to settlement.
Bulwarra sold in 2015 for $19.8 million to a buyer from China.
There was no price disclosure on the latest sale by Ken Jacobs, of Christie’s International whose $20 million asking price remained unchanged throughout the latest campaign that began last August.
Blanchett was in New York when the latest sale took place, after her Broadway debut in the Sydney Theatre Company’s The Present.  
Blanchett and Upton purchased the 3642-square-metre estate for $10 million in 2005 from veteran merchant banker Jim Dominguez and his wife Suzanne.
Architects Nadine Alwill and Stephen Lesiuk were commissioned to undertake a large-scale extension that took three years and cost more than $8 million.
The 2015 <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/56942-cate-blanchett-s-20-million-buyer-opts-out-of-the-hunters-hill-purchase" target="_blank">sale of the home collapsed</a>. 
The home was first listed with <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/45035-cate-blanchett-lists-hunters-hill-trophy-home" target="_blank">$20 million hopes</a>. 
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