Tourism chief Geoff Dixon sells Rocks penthouse

Tourism chief Geoff Dixon sells Rocks penthouse
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020

Lawyer John Rollason and his wife, antique dealer Lilian Barclay, have emerged as the $7.45 million buyers of former Qantas chief Geoff Dixon's penthouse at The Rocks. 

The two-storey penthouse in the heritage 1912 Metcalfe Bond building sold earlier this year through McGrath agent James Dack.

It has quintessential Sydney postcard views across Campbells Cove to the Opera House and up towards the Harbour Bridge. 

The Tourism Australia chairman paid $7.75 million in 2010.

The Hickson Road apartment had previously traded at $10 million in 2007 when sold by the late McDonald's chief Charlie Bell, who was its first buyer, spending $8,525,000 in 2003 after its refurbishment by Nettleton Tribe Architects for Tjeerd la Grouw's Amstal Property Group.

The three-bedroom penthouse has a total area of 328 square metres.

Its body corporate administration fee is $8,892 a quarter, or $35,568 annually, plus a quarterly sinking fund at $1,824 ($7,296 annually).

Lilian Barclay recently sold their Potts Point landmark mansion, Rockwall House (pictured above) through Blacket and Glasgow's Peter Blacket for $10.175 million to Phi Phi (Qui) Turner, wife of mining executive, Stephen Turner.

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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