Harry Seidler-designed Balmain trophy home sold pre-auction

A Harry Seidler-designed home - with cathedral-like vertical spaces - in Sydney’s Balmain has been sold pre-auction through Belle Property agent Monique Dower.

It was marketed as seeking $5 million plus, selling as the Queen's birthday weekend highest result.

No sale price was given, but it easily bettered a $3.5 million Blakehurst sale.

Title Tattle recalls the Balmain property was listed for 2013 auction with an unsuccessful price guide of $6 million.

Located at 22 White Street, the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home was built in 1995.

It was first sold in 1999 a $2.5 million by University of Sydney professor of psychiatry Russell Meares and wife Sue through Double Bay agent Sally Hampshire.

Named the 'Sydney Seidler', it was one of the last residential properties Seidler created before his death in 2006.

The home boasts Seidler’s signature curved walls and roof and triple-height ceilings set on a 798-square-metre waterfront block.

The main living areas offer views over the water.

It also comes with pool, boatshed and slipway.

The property last sold in October 2001 for $3.41 million, which Danny Cobden, director of Cobden and Hayson noted at the time, was a record auction price sale of a home in Balmain.

Set on the corner of White Street and Tilba Avenue, and opposite Elkington Park, the split-level house has even been listed on the Stayz website for rent at $1100 a night with a five-night minimum stay.