Strong offer made for Toorak mansion Sark

There's a very strong offer on the table for Sark, the Toorak mansion owned by the retailing guru Mark McInnes and wife Lisa Kelly.

The Premier Investments chief executive only listed the 1930 English style home late last month.

And it was bought for $9.25 million only last May.

Interest from $10 million was quoted by Marshall White agents Marcus Chiminello and Nicole French.

Set on the exclusive Hopetoun Road, the six bedroom, three bathroom home is framed by a deep established garden with pool and spa on its 2023 sqm.

There's also a self-contained two storey cottage.

McInnes still maintains his three apartment North Bondi amalgamation that cost him a combined $7.1 million in 2007.

McInnes was made head of Premier Investments by the Melbourne billionaire Solomon Lew in 2011, having previously run David Jones in Sydney for seven years.

This article first appeared in The Weekend Australian's Mansions Australia section.