Tidemark, Mermaid Beach's trophy home offering

Tidemark, Mermaid Beach's trophy home offering
Jonathan ChancellorFebruary 6, 2021

It is looking absolutely stunning currently with its tiered frangipani-lined streetside frontage, but the former Billabong director Scott Perrin and wife Rachel are yet to sell their Mermaid Beach mansion on the Gold Coast.

It was listed for what was hoped to set a new record for Gold Coast residential property.

The current record was set when Harvey Norman executive Steve Cavalier paid $19 million on nearby Hedges Avenue, known as millionaires' row in 2006. 

The property, at 45-51 Albatross Avenue, is almost twice the land and house size of 1 Albatross Avenue, which sold for $18 million to the billionaire pub baron Bruce Mathieson.

Tidemark, the Perrin's 30-plus room home comes with separate caretaker residence, having amalgamated three blocks of beachfront land to build the multimillion-dollar "sand castle".

Ray White's Michael Willems was appointed to sell the 2833 sqm property last September.

Holidaying pedestrians stop and pick up the fallen flowers to pop them behind their ear.

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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