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The NSW state government is believed to have bought the Fernhill trophy estate Mulgoa, on the outskirts of Sydney, for $27.25 million.
The 384 hectare property was initially listed for $30 million in 2016, with a <a href="https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/expected%20to%20be%20close%20to%20that%20figure." target="_blank">sale last year</a> expected to be close to that figure.
It was set to become a cemetery, although Fernhill never changed hands after local objections put an end to the sale, which saw Sydney's Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Trust<a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/77487-angas-loses-another-fernhill-mulgoa-buyer" target="_blank"> walk away.</a>
The state government are yet to announce what they intend to do with the property.
The property, the former home of property tycoon Warren Anderson, was sold by struggling debenture company Angas Securities after its deal with Simon Tripp failed to proceed to  final implementation.
Christie's International agent Ken Jacobs had the listing of the Georgian mansion.
 
 
 
 
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Mulgoa estate Fernhill sold to the NSW Government for over $27 million

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The debenture company Angas Securities hopes it is close to securing the sale of the Fernhill Estate at Mulgoa on the outskirts of Sydney.
The intending buyer is undisclosed.
“I expect to be meeting with this party and solicitors next week to finalise negotiations surrounding a small number of contractual issues,” Angas chairman Andrew Luckhurst-Smith told The Australian.
Sydney's Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Trust walked away from plans to buy Fernhill last November for close to $30 million amid plans to expand.
The listing agent Ken Jacobs, of Christie's International, was then dealing with parties who had expressed interest in the property should the sale not proceed.
Fernhill, the Georgian mansion in Mulgoa on the outskirts of Sydney, was the former home of bankrupt property tycoon Warren Anderson.
It was then under the control of SimonTripp who had substantially upgraded the estate.
But Tripp quit the seven bedroom sandstone home and the subdivision partnership in 2016.
The Australian advised the struggling debenture group told its investors that it had agreed terms with an Australian buyer.
It for the section known as central Fernhill, not the eastern portion of the estate.
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Hopes held by Angas that Fernhill at Mulgoa is close to being sold again

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Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Trust (RGCRT) is conducting due diligence as it explores the option of purchasing the central parcel of the historic Fernhill Estate at Mulgoa being sold by Adelaide-based finance house Angas ­Securities for about $30 million.
“Our objective is to maintain the homestead and heritage landscape, ensuring it is conserved for future generations. To support this initiative we would in turn utilise the undeveloped and non bio-banked sections of the property as a predominantly lawn style cemetery,” the trust says on its website.
The trust is organising meetings from May 16 to May 31 with the Mulgoa community on its plans to use undeveloped areas of the property as a heritage cemetery.
The trust plans to preserve the homestead and heritage landscape and would create a buffer of more than 25 ha around the Georgian mansion and another 220 ha of bio-banked land on the site at Mulgoa in far western Sydney.
The rest of the property would become a predominantly lawn-style cemetery.
The Rookwood trust is buying the estate as cemeteries across Sydney are expected to be full in the next 20-30 years.
“We pride ourselves as heritage custodians and we welcome the opportunity to conserve Fernhill in the same way that we conserve Rookwood,” RGCRT chief executive George Simpson said.
The trust, which manages more than two-thirds of Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery, said it was determined that facility would ­always be available for burials, but said developing a heritage cemetery at Mulgoa “will provide the community with another option (for) a dignified and historically significant final resting place”.
“We are committed to implementing strategies that will enable us to meet the needs of our vast multicultural communities well into the future. One of our longer term solutions in this area is the acquisition of new land,” Simpson said.
Angas last month revealed plans to carve up parts of Fernhill Estate in efforts likely to reap about $60 million in total, including proceeds from smaller land sales and bio-banking deals, according to a report in The Australian.
Fernhill, the former home of bankrupt property tycoon Warren Anderson, was until last year controlled by a venture between Angas and businessman Simon Tripp, and will now be subject to a six-month period of due diligence.
Agent Ken Jacobs of Christie’s International declined to comment to The Australian but the vendor last month confirmed interest from a purchaser.
The Mulgoa Progress Association is opposes turning the historic Fernhill Estate into a general cemetery.
The association’s president Wally Cox was cited by The Daily Telegraph as saying that a lawn cemetery on a heritage site would be destructive.
An eight-bedroom mansion and outbuildings, constructed over four years, are on the portion of the property the trust is eying.
The 1830s heritage listed homestead is complete with a 16-seat dining room, ballroom, 12 sandstone fireplaces and a horse racing track and stables that, over the centuries, have been home to two Melbourne Cup winners.
“RGCRT confirms that a sale has not yet occurred, but it has entered into a six-month exclusivity period which will allow the trust to conduct the required due diligence process, commencing with a period of community consultation,” the trust’s spokeswoman told the Penrith Press.
Fernhill was built by 20 Irish stonemasons following a land grant by Gocernor Macquarie to Colonial Magistrate William Cox in 1810.
Penrith Cemetery has “at least 40 more years till it reaches capacity”, Penrith Council’s spokesman previously told the Press.
“There are approximately 10,500 interred at Penrith, either buried or ashes placement,” he said. 
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Trust CEO George Simpson said Rookwood has been exploring options outside Lidcombe “for many years now”, particularly “larger undeveloped areas in the west”.
He said Fernhill was zoned for cemeteries.
In response to the concerns voiced by the Mulgoa Progress Association, Simpson said Rookwood Cemetery, which has been operating since 1867, is a heritage site too with many buildings within the site dating back to the 1870s.
“We pride ourselves as heritage custodians and we welcome the opportunity to conserve Fernhill in the same way that we conserve Rookwood.”
Fernhill <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/52992-fernhill-at-mulgoa-boomerangs-back-onto-market" target="_blank">has a great thoroughbred history</a>, as one of the greatest racehorses that ever trod the Australian turf, Yattendon died at Fernhill in 1880.
Winner of the Sydney Cup in 1866, Yattendon produced Melbourne Cup winners Chester (1877) and Grand Flaneur (1880).
Fernhill was built by William Cox, an engineer who oversaw the road that passed over the Blue Mountains, for his son Edward.
It remained in the ownership of the Cox family until 1896, when it sold to the Wright family, of Wright, Heaton and Co, who billed their firm as the most extensive carrying firm in the colony.
The Bachelor filmed the finale at Fernhill Estate when Bachelor Sam Wood chose his leading lady Snezana Markoski.
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Rookwood Cemetery set to buy historic Fernhill Estate, Mulgoa

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The richly decorated 1890's home, Glenleigh, positioned on the banks of the Nepean River at Mulgoa, has been mostly hidden for the past three decades from the outside world.
But its intact glory will soon captivate potential buyers after the having been listed for sale.
It was a Scottish Baronial-style country retreat built for the Edinburgh-born shipping merchant, and Ranelagh, Darling Point resident, James Ewan.
It was built with ballast bricks, constructed in triple brick on sandstone so the house would be around for several hundred years.
It last traded when bought by the Grotto family for $1.05 million in 1984.
Collier's agents Richard Royle and Deborah Cullen are seeking expressions of interest, reluctant to suggest a price given they want private home owners to compete with major housing subdivision companies.
The <a href="https://www.colliers.com.au/22103/#.Vv22A-nvhUF" target="_blank">Mulgoa Road, Regentville</a> property has only been occupied by a handful of owners since first sold in 1917, three years after Ewan's widow, Marion, mother of eight, died.
It was the Layt turf farming family who had heritage architects Clive Lucas and Ian Stapleton undertake its restoration in the late 1970s retaining the design by the eminent architect W.W Wardell.
For almost four decades it was owned by interpreter Dr Charles Monticone, who Shirley Hazzard immortalised in her novel, The Transit of Venus. During the years it has been an Aboriginal girls' mission, ostrich farm and Queenwood School World War II retreat. 
The property features impressive Belgium marble fireplaces and Lyon &amp; Cottier stain glass windows, one with the Celsus (1st century AD) maxim, Cito, tuto et jucunde (quickly, safely and pleasantly. 
There's also some of the finest surviving painted interior ceiling frezies in any house in Australia after two Italian artists were brought out to Sydney.
Stag, partridges, eel, hare and game birds feature stencilled on the dining room ceiling. Imagery of musicians and opera singers in the music room and writers decorate the library. Mozart, Haydn and Mendlessohn gaze down from garlanded, gold-leafed frames; while Shakespeare, Milton, Scott and Burns suggest Ewan's literary taste.
The kitchen still retains the original set of servants bells for each room, the smaller the bell the less important the room.
The bell tone alerted the servants as to which room he or she had to attend.
The estate comes with a tennis court with pavilion, and two separate cottages on its 34 hectare parcel, one of the largest private homes in the Sydney basin.
The old horse stables/coach house has been converted in to a wholesale plant nursery which grows Bucks, Conifer's and Gardenia as an approved supplier to Bunnings.
Mulgoa's Fern Hill, another richman's colonial Georgian estate, ranks as the suburb's last big opportunity which was sold in a complicated 2012 acquisition by the entreprenuer Simon Tripp and his wife, Brenda with a housing subdivision intended. 
It was Irish stonemasons who worked on the Greek Revival temple-style sandstone Fern Hill residence built for Edward Cox, the sixth and youngest son of pioneer William Cox, who oversaw the building of the first road over the Blue Mountains in 1814.
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