No sale for Linc's Peter Bond Redfern post office offering
Peter Bond, the chief executive of gas company LINC Energy, withdrew the Redfern post office premises from its scheduled auction last night.
The Business Review Weekly rich lister bought it in mid-2011 when the former post office commercial premises at 113-119 Redfern Street were sold by spruiker Max Markson for $2,125,000.
The building, which has a clock tower and bell, last sold through agents Paul Ephron and Ben Forsyth. Markson had bought it from Sorin Dascalu & Associates in 2006 for $1.9 million.
The former Redfern Post Office, in Redfern, NSW, was built in 1882. It has a two-storey Victorian Italianate building plus a dominant four-and-half-storey corner clock tower. The post office included a telegraph office, parlour, drawing room, three bedrooms, kitchen, a servant’s room, bathroom, scullery, washhouse, fuel shed and two stall stables.
In 1880, £3000 was provided for the erection of the Redfern post office, and then the Public Works added a clock tower for an estimated extra £700.
The building has 480 square metres of internal space on its 330-square-metre Redfern Street block.
It was listed through McGrath agents James Dack and Chris Chung.