Former Carlton & United Breweries boss Ari Mervis buys Bondi block

Former Carlton & United Breweries boss Ari Mervis has bought a block of flats on Bondi’s Ben Buckler, paying $9.09 million for a modernised art deco block of five units on the dress circle Ramsgate Avenue.

The 1930s block was renovated by architect Brian Meyerson of MHN Design Union with interiors by Jo Lawless.

Ray White secured the sale in conjunction with Phillips Pantzer Donnelley agent Alexander Phillips.

The five apartments comprise two-bedroom garden apartments, two-bedroom middle level units and a three-bedroom penthouse.

The block isn’t far from Mervis’s penthouse-style apartment in the Pacific Bondi on Campbell Parade, which he bought for $3,897,000 in 2016, and where he lives with wife Jo-anne.

Buying whole Bondi Beach apartment blocks has been a trend this year.

Marnie Lewis-Millar and her husband Bruce Millar, managing director of real estate consultancy group Millar Financial, have spent $8.65 million on a North Bondi block of 12 units.

And film director turned property developer Rebel Penfold Russell has her new project, having spent $4.8 million on a block of four apartments, also on Ramsgate Avenue.

This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph.