Cremorne Point trophy home Mia Mia sold
The trophy home, Mia Mia in Cremorne Point has been sold for $8.7 million to a Chinese buyer with Australian residency.
Selling agent McGrath Limited's Michael Coombs, who had the listing with Piers van Hamburg, calculates it as the highest price in three years.
It topped the list of prestige recent sales released in CoreLogic RP Data's top 10 weekly sales.
Lifestyle Village Services director Jytte Logan had renovated the 1915 home since buying it in 2008 from expat telco executive John Houston and his wife Frances for $7.84 million.
When it last sold the Regency-style villa in parterre gardens came with a Robert Carrier-designed kitchen featuring double ovens and limed American oak cabinetry.
The residence was redesigned by John Brogan many decades ago in the Regency style.
The Houston's had bought it from IVF specialist Geoffrey Driscoll and his wife, Janette, who had paid $2.9 million in 1998 to interior designer Jackie White and her husband, David.