Nick Tobias Bellevue Hill trophy bungalow gets $10.5 million asking price
Architect Nick Tobias and his author wife, Miranda Darling are still seeking buyers for their Professor Leslie Wilkinson-designed Bellevue Hill home.
A $10.5 million price has been posted for the late 1920s residence trophy home which Ashley Bierman and Elliott Placks, of Ray White Double Bay, had scheduled for auction on 5 March.
The couple bought the 1,070 square metre Victoria Road property in 2006 for $6,765,250 from headhunter Daniel Gauchat and his wife Helen.
The 1929 bungalow renovated to have a lower ground level is known as the Godsall House. It was in 1906 when Edward Harris built a house, Kamilaroi, on the north-eastern side of Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill. In 1917, the property was purchased by Una Godsall with Leslie Wilkinson commissioned in 1929 to design alterations and additions to the house.
In 1950, the ownership of the property was transferred to Elizabeth Ryrie, daughter of Dr Robert and Mrs Una Godsall, who had married James Ryrie in 1940.
Title Tattle recalls it was the Ryrie family who had lived at Micalago in the Monaro region of New South Wales since 1850.
In 1945, Wilkinson was commissioned by Elizabeth Ryrie to make some alterations and improvements to Micalago Homestead.
In 1950 the Godsall family sold the property.
The Tobias couple's listing follows last year's purchase at North Bondi reportedly for more than $7.5 million.
It's not far from the $6.5 million purchase last year of Greg and Kathy Shand at North Bondi.