Expat Matthew Csidei sells Watsons Bay home
James Packer’s right hand man Matthew Csidei has sold his Watsons Bay home.
The asking price was around $8 million for the four-bedroom home with Blainey North interiors and a 20 metre lap pool.
It has been suggested around $7 million was secured.
Its original incarnation was as a Masonic Lodge.
It was marketed as expertly rebuilt from a shell in 2008 as a luxurious classical Beaux-Arts inspired contemporary home with what was arguably Sydney's biggest living room and possibly the largest master bedroom suite in an exclusive harbourside/oceanside village pocket.
It was listed with James McCowan of Sydney Sotheby’s International Realty and William Manning of Ballard Property, who also have James Packer's Bondi Beach home for sale.
Csidei and his wife Lauren Roscoe are now based in London with their two children.
They retain a Mittagong property, Kennerton Green.
Once known as the 'Minister of Fun', because he looks after James Packer's toys, "Ched" secured the former Masonic Temple in a derelict state in 2005 for $2.7 million.
Its parquetry floors are from an 18th century chateaux in France's Loire Valley.