Anytime Fitness co-founder sells Balmain trophy
Anytime fitness co-founder Jacinta McDonell's Balmain home was sold at weekend auction at $3,775,000.
The philanthropic McDonell, who oversees a gym empire of 420 clubs across Australia, paid $3.3 million in 2014 for the Terry Street home.
McDonell is looking to head east for closer proximity to schools.
Set on a 348 sqm block, the reinvention of a double-fronted sandstone residence has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
A heated mineral pool adjoins a self contained guest cottage.
Cobden & Hayson agent Matthew Hayson was expecting $3.5 million.
McDonell made a recent Byron Bay hinterland purchase, spending $2.1 million for Ammamead last October.
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.