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The Warrawee home of miner Jerry Ren, who was once dubbed the Northern Territory’s only billionaire, is whispered to have been sold.
Bremon, which cost $11.5 million in 2010, is an imposing house on a 6400 square metre Chilton Parade holding.
There are suggestions the Chinese-born Australian Wilson Hui Xiong Xue, the self-described shoe king of China who dabbles in mining, may have an interest in its acquisition.
Xue owns the former Balmoral Slopes home of Richard and Jane Freudenstein that cost $23,733,800.
Ren has been bankrupted and is separated from his wife Xia Kong. 
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.
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Jerry Ren's Warrawee home rumoured to have been sold

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Last spring's trophy listing on the upper north shore, Kooyong at Warrawee sold with the settlement price showing at $7.85 million through Christies International agent Darren Curtis.
Kooyong (pictured above) is the historic Warrawee mansion on 9,000 square metres that last traded for $6.35 million in late 2008 when bought by the chief financial officer of Sirius Minerals, Jason Murray, and his wife, Danni.
It has been bought by the Hitchcock-Gransier family who sold through LJ Hooker's Robert Ward for $4.1 million in Lindfield late last year, but who still own at Dee Why. It's Francois Hitchcock and Jackie Gransier.
Kooyong is estimated as still ranking as the area's largest estates, and unquestionably one of its most historically significant properties given<a href="https://radicalterrace.com/post/30809445267/kooyong-55-hastings-road-warrawee-sulman" target="_blank"> the 1895 mansion was designed by architect Sir John Sulman</a>. Kooyong, originally named Upton Grey, was built for the prominent flour milling industrialist Gillespie family, who lived there until 1917 when the property sold to William Henry Locke, the general manager of Royal Exchange Assurance of London, who renamed it Kooyong.
The sale is not however a suburb record which has stood as $11.5 million since 2010 when mining magnate Jerry Ren bought Bremon, the mansion once known as Pantugeul. Ren is the controlling shareholder in the privately owned Australian Oil and Gas, which has mining rights over close to 300,000 square kilometres - nearly a fifth of the Northern Territory. 
But Title Tattle is now aware there has apparently been a new suburb record in neighbouring Wahroonga of about $9.2 million. It's a house that likewise has had a name change over the years.
It's <a href="https://www.ourestates.com.au/properties.php?id=9394153" target="_blank">Wairimu the 1927 five-bedroom, 3228-square-metre Water Street home</a> (pictured below) with tennis court and pool. It was sold by the veteran expatriate television executive Steve Askew and his wife, Cressida after being listed for two years with $11 million hopes presumably on top of it having an amazing - and befitting - home cinema.
Our Estates agent Adam Regan secured the sale of the six-bedroom property with the buyer being a senior executive from an accounting firm in China.
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The Wahroonga estate previously had traded in 2007 for $5.2 million, when it was bought some 18 months after its listing by the hotelier Courtney-O'Connor family.
It had traded in 1991 when the Courtney-O'Connor family bought it for $2.5 million.
Property Observer columnist Margie Blok says she knew the property originally as the Penman Residence, designed by Hugh Venables Vernon. It's also been known as Broadlands. And the Wairimu name stems from "wai" meaning "by the water" in Maori and rimu is a New Zealand tree.
The veteran television executive Askew was chief operating officer for News Corp Star TV in Asia, then turning his craft to co-producing movies with Jackie Chan and Andy Lau. The latest Wahroonga sale bettered a late 2013 spring sale on Burns Road through Christies agent Darren Curtis which briefly held the suburb record at $7.5 million.
In 1928, Locke sold Kooyong to barrister Horace Markell, QC, who owned it until the late 1940s when the Australian federal government bought it for the Department of Social Services as a rehabilitation centre.
In 1978, Kooyong was transferred to the CSIRO.
In 1986, shortly after the NSW government imposed an interim conservation order, the property sold for $2.3 million to Knox Grammar School.
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Title Tattle recalls in 2001 Knox Grammar abandoned plans to develop it into a boarding school. There were sheep that grazed on the then prestigious 12,500 square metre property which Knox had been using in agricultural study classes.
For more than 10 years residents of Hastings Road and Pibrac Avenue led by Ian Londish had objected to any development, and while the school eventually won development approval in 1997, it decided after a spending priorities review that the boarding facilities could be provided elsewhere at a significantly lower cost.
When Knox sold the Hastings Road property to the Cahill family for $5.7 million in 2002 the grand house and its outbuildings were in a state of extreme disrepair.
Subsequently, two blocks of land were subdivided from the estate.
In December 2008, the Cahills then sold Kooyong for $6.35 million to Jason Murray, who is the chief financial officer of Sirius Minerals, and his interior designer wife, Danni.
The Murrays renovated even adding a private pub in one of the three outbuildings. 
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Warrawee and Wahroonga in upper north shore trophy home name change sales see-saw

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One of the Northern Territory's richest oil and gas magnates Jerry Ren, has listed his huge Warrawee mansion, Pantagruel.
Ren paid a suburb record $11.5 million in 2010 for the massive nine bedroom, 11 bathroom home that spans over 2000 sqm.
Architect Espie Dodds designed the home in the 1980s for oil magnate Pat Burke, drawing inspiration from the colonial era's Elizabeth Bay House.
It first sold incomplete in 1999 for $3 million to entrepreneur Simon and Brenda Tripp.
The home with stately formal lounge and banquet style dining room has a theatre, full sized billiard room, home bar, 3,000 bottle wine cellar and home office.
There's a pool and championship tennis court on the large 6,405 sqm private estate which Luschwitz Real Estate Pymble agent Stephen Sales listed this week.
There are $15 million expectations.
Locals have long referred to it as the Chilton Hilton given its nine bedrooms and 11 bathrooms.
This article first appeared in the Daily Telegraph.
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Magnate Jerry Ren lists Warrawee mansion Pantagruel

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The former Star City chief executive David Banks and his wife, Jackie, have settled on Wichita, the Warrawee trophy home.
Banks, who sits on the board of Aristocrat, paid $5.25 million for the <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-warrawee-124708826" target="_blank">historic residence</a> that was built in 1928.
It was owned by author Penelope Janu, wife of WorleyParsons’ general counsel Peter Janu.
Designed by renowned architect Emil Sodersten, the Tudor-style home featured in The Australian Home Beautiful magazine in 1930.
It sits in Peter Fudge designed gardens and has five bedrooms, four bathrooms and an infinity edge pool.
Chadwick Real Estate agent Lynette Malcolm sold the home.
Banks was previously based in the James Orwin, Georgian-style designed Pymble home Ballinlough, which he sold to former chief justice of the High Court Murray Gleeson and his wife Robyn.
Gleeson <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/64214-murray-gleeson-sells-pymble-trophy-home-sandon" target="_blank">sold Sandon</a>, his home on the same road, just before the purchase.
 
 
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David Banks buys Wichita at Warrawee

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International award-winning aged care developer Mark Moran Group are teaming up with a number of industry leaders to create a new batch of residential apartments on Sydney's upper north shore.
The Warrawee apartments dubbed 'Embrace' will be created by architect Benson McCormack, interior designer Evette Moran and landscape architect Charlie Albone.
The project at 1496 Pacific Highway will comprise 52 one, two and three bedroom apartments over two buildings. 
Mark Moran Group founders Mark and Evette Moran decided that the time was right to share their expertise, according to Mark Moran Group property director David Bacon.
“Our development philosophy is to consistently design with integrity and innovation… maintaining a specific focus on user delight and life quality," Bacon said.
"We develop, own and successfully operate a varied property portfolio across seniors, residential, tourism and hospitality sectors… a collaboration with residential apartments is the next exciting step for the Mark Moran Group.
Bacon said Mark Moran Group have assembled an exceptional project team to deliver a unique and wonderful setting.
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Savills are marketing the campaign lead by the director of residential projects Peter Coulton.
“Evette Moran is regarded as one of the most innovative interior designers around," Coulton said. 
In 2016 she was awarded Industry Changemaker for innovation for all of Australia and Asia.
“The architects, Benson McCormack Architecture, have worked with landscape architect Charlie Albone from the hit television programme, Selling Houses Australia, to create a beautiful communal courtyard downstairs between the two buildings," Coulton said.
A rooftop garden will feature BBQs and shading, providing living space extensions and space for a true community to foster.
There will be citrus trees and a herb garden within the central communal courtyard.
The development overlooks a nature reserve at the rear, while existing native trees on the site have been included in the landscape plans.
For more information <a href="http://www.embracewarrawee.com.au/" target="_blank">click here.</a>
 
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Mark Moran Group diversify into residential development 

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A Warrawee five bedroom house designed by architect Augustus Aley has been sold.
It was offered by Carl Ferris and Donna Ferris from McConnell Bourn, without public price guidance.
<a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-warrawee-128677922" target="_blank">Located at 8 Yosefa Avenue</a>, the 1920s Spanish Mission villa has been transformed into a laid back style, sophistication and contemporary family living.
The first level of the house comes with the monochrome kitchen with ample bench space, formal and relaxed living rooms, and lounge with fireplace.
The second floor features parent retreat with own balcony and additional fifth bedroom. 
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Additional extras include selected fixtures and fittings throughout the home, including rich hardwood floors, large light filling windows, plantation shutters, high patterned ceilings plus an array of pendant lighting.
The outdoor features landscaped backyard, paved alfresco terrace, gourmet veggie garden and tranquil water fountain as well as grassy lawns.
It is within walking distance to Warrawee Station and Knox Grammar, and also minutes from village shops, local eateries, buses plus local reserves.
The suburb's median house price sits at <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/3609-warrawee-nsw" target="_blank">$2,576,000</a>, according to CoreLogic.
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