Andrew Robb buys at Palm Beach

Andrew Robb buys at Palm Beach
Title TattleDecember 7, 2020

The former Australian trade minister Andrew Robb and wife Maureen have bought at Palm Beach as they return to Sydney from Melbourne.

They paid $3,735,000 for Indigo, a luxury hill top trophy home, snapping it up a week before its recent auction.

It's just across the road from the home of their daughter, Pip who has run the nearby The Boathouse at Palm Beach with her Andrew Goldsmith for many years.

"We just want to see more of the grandchildren," he said. 

The recent acquisition comes with central alfresco courtyard. There's three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a study and an ocean facing entertaining terrace with swimming pool.

The home, last traded for $3.1 million in 2011, was marketed as having one of the best northly views in Palm Beach.

Robb's legacy as Minister for Trade and Investment in the Abbott government was having carriage of the final negotiations that resulted in several Free Trade Agreements. 

Robb, who represented the Brighton-based Goldstein electorate in Melbourne between 2004 and 2016, now travels the world piecing together international trade deals.

His most recent success was securing a deal for Gina Rinehart's burgeoning cattle business. The agreement with a Chinese joint venture company will give it a beef supply chain stretching from the Australian paddock to the Chinese plate through a feed-lot and processing centre on Jintang Island in north-eastern China.

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