Television executive Jeff Browne sells Bondi Beach apartment
The former Network Nine boss Jeff Browne has sold his Bondi Beach triplex apartment located opposite the Bondi Icebergs for around $4 million.
A New Zealand buyer flew into Sydney last month exchanging the same day through Paul Langsam, of Raine & Horne Bondi Beach.
The apartment in the Graham Humphrey-designed triplex on Notts Avenue failed to sell when listed last October.
It cost $3.2 million in 2011.
The north-facing apartment with ocean views was developed in 2004 by the Elterman family.
The block's penthouse set a Bondi Beach apartment record when bought in 2006 for $9 million by Spencer Young, founder and until recently chairman of hedge fund holding firm HFA.
Brown, who was Eddie McGuire's right-hand man in the brief stint at the Nine Network, is a former AFL lawyer and passionate Collingwood Magpies fan. He retains a base in Melbourne at his South Yarra sub-penthouse.
In late 2010 he paid $5 million for a luxury apartment within Fridcorp's South Yarra complex on the north-west corner of 709 Chapel Street, near the southern end of the Church Street Bridge.
Tresor, a curvaceous and distinctive Elenberg Fraser-designed glass tower with 99 apartments, was approved despite concerns it would overshadow the abutting Melbourne High School and increase traffic to the already-busy Chapel Street and Church Street, Richmond, retail strips.
Browne is returning to Nine to run its AFL and NRL broadcasting right negotiations, according to the Australian media diary columnist Sharri Markson.