Expat lists Amaroo, Ann Lewis' longtime romantic Rose Bay villa
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The former Sydney Harbour home (pictured above) of the late arts patron Ann Lewis has returned to the market.
Amaroo has been listed by its 2011 Hong Kong-based expat buyer who paid $15 million, and briefly tenanted it.
It now comes with approved new dwelling plans with a $2.9 million design by Collins & Turner. There are $18 million expectations.
Its latest marketing is through Alison Coopes, and presumably starkly empty. Its rooms last time were still covered with artworks, though a large John Olsen painting that hung in her dining room for 45 years had been donated it to the Newcastle Regional Gallery.
The 1909 residence at 8 Bayview Hill Road comes with direct access to a sandy beach and private deepwater jetty.
Ken Jacobs at Christies International in conjunction with Andrew Livingston and Brett Talbot from McGrath Estate Agents secured the last sale which was bullish especially for the harbourfront reserve location.
It has been listed by Shaun Browne from AME Group, the minerals analysis company.
It was the home of Ann Lewis for about 55 years, and was listed by her four children, Amanda Zsebik, Tony Lewis, Annalise Scanlan and Daniel Lewis, following her death in May 2011. A Mungindi grazier's daughter, Ann Livingston met building construction magnate John Lewis on the dance floor at Prunier's in Woollahra.
The sale fell short of Rose Bay's $18.2 million top sale, which was a newly built contemporary house when sold in 2006.
There has also been the nearby higher sale, but the mystery remains on the sale details given extended settlement terms.
It was the early 2013 sale by the veteran technology investor Neill Miller who sold his Rose Bay mansion for a rumoured $30 million.
There was no public marketing of the contemporary Rose Bay abode built on the harbourfront reserve location at the base of the steep cul-de-sac sandwiched between the Kambala and Kincoppal-Rose Bay schools.
The land was bought for $7.75 million in 2002 along with a $3 million acquistion in 2005 of a portion hived off from Sacred Heart convent land holdings.