Surry Hills $7.5 million warehouse trophy home with heart-shaped pool
A Surry Hills warehouse residence has been listed with $7.5 million plus hopes.
It was one of Sydney's earliest residential industrial conversions.
Title Tattle recalls the 1970s conversion undertaken by Gordon Youett and Kerry Yates was used as fashion company Espirit's headquarters for many years.
It still has its heart-shaped, blue-tiled swimming pool.
In 1987 it attracted the eye of fashion designer Stuart Membery who bought it in 1987 for $750,000.
It sold 16 months later for $1.16 million to Membery's ex-business partner Michael Watson. It was notable as Membery signalled his mother to tell the auctioneer to ask Watson to leave.
"I'm not leaving because I'm going to buy this house," said Watson to the Andrew Gibbons estate agency auctioneer.
It sold again in 1998 for $1.25 million to Tim Evangelinidis, who resold it 20 months later for $1.92 million to Michael Robinson.
The warehouse last sold in 2004 at $2.5 million to Michael Hayes. The record stands at $5.71 million when businessman Neville Miles and his wife Beryl sold their Surry Hills warehouse to artist Melinda Marshman and her husband Dr David Marshman in 2012.
"As warehouse homes go, this could be Sydney's pinnacle," the recent BresicWhitney marketing says.
Given the pool shape, Jackie Collins chose it as the location to launch her blockbuster book Hollywood Wives in the early 1980s.
Facing north over surrounding rooftops, it has 52 solar panels that generate up to $6,000 per annum.