Ocean Grove trophy home sale at $1.7 million
The five bedroom Ocean Grove trophy home at 40 Westview Grove has been sold.
It sold at $1.7 million through Hugh McKewan at Hayden Ocean Grove with two buyers competing.
It was the most prestigious home on the Ocean Grove market and fetched one of the highest prices in recent times.
It had been listed with $1.5 million plus hopes.
The block in the Greater Geelong municipality was bought in 2010 for $500,000.
It is on 1.87 hectares overlooking scenic Lake Connewarre, just moments to the beach and town.
CoreLogic RP Data put the median house price currently at around $500,000.
The agency's top recorded sale was $3.3 million in 2012 for a house designed by architect John Lochhead on a 2,600sqm to with panoramic views over the ocean and the Barwon Heads bluff.
The garden (below) has been designed by Jim Sinatra with interiors by Rina Cohen.
