Simon Mordant sells in Point Piper to downsize into Thomas Hamel flat

The interior designer Thomas Hamel has sold his flat in the Sydney CBD block, Broughton House to financier Simon Mordant and his wife Catriona.

The expansive 240 square metre space was bought fully furnished through Christies International.

It is a one-bedroom apartment with three separate formal living rooms on the top floor of the 19th century converted wool store.

Christie's agents Ken Jacobs and Darren Curtis were asking more than $2.5 million with suggestions around $3 million was secured.

Title Tattle gleans Mordant has also snappily sold his beachfront Point Piper apartment, apparently to the underbidder when he bought it in 2011.

The arts philanthropist Simon Mordant, AM, and wife Catriona paid $10.8 million for the garden apartment in the luxury boutique building designed by POPOVbass architects.

The harbourside Buckhurst Avenue block of six apartments was built by ELK Developments - a company associated with the El Khoury family - who engaged Bill Malouf of LJ Hooker Double Bay and Ken Jacobs of Christie's to find the initial batch of buyers.

The ELK development group secured $68 million in sales of the six harbourfront Buckhurst Avenue apartments. The whole-floor units were designed by architect Alex Popov, with interiors by Ruth Levine Designs, following two years of construction.

Simon and Catriona Mordant had previously been living in Darling Point for 24 years.

Simon Mordant recently returned to the boutique advisory scene, establishing Luminis Partners with Ron Malek and Jamie Garis. Their previous outfit was Caliburn, which became Greenhill Caliburn then Greenhill Australia.