Boyarsky family in $12.6 million Double Bay beachfront buy
The Double Bay trophy home sale of the Pockley family’s beachfront has settled after its 12 month delayed settlement deal.
It was for sale in October last year for the first time since the 1940s.
The 1,090 square metre level cul-de-sac block with two-storey, five bedroom residence plus boat shed has been bought by the Boyarsky family.
The international development company Anka Property head, Andrew was the buyer. The company was founded by his father Alex in 1968, having Sydney projects including the Liberty Grove development in Homebush and more recently Union Balmain in Rozelle. The family matriarch Vera, who recently sold in Bellevue Hill for $8.3 million, has a $7.8 million apartment above Double Bay's Cosmopolitian.
Overlooking the bay, it was in 1939 when the late Dr Francis John Antill Pockley and his English born wife Diana returned to live in Australia after they met at Guy’s Hospital in London where they both worked.
Initially the couple rented the Double Bay residence, and later they purchased the property.
After Dr Pockley’s death in 1991, Diana remained living at the Double Bay house until 2009 when shed died, aged 98 years.
It was sold through Michael Dunn of Richardson & Wrench Double Bay.
Other sales on the Double Bay beachfront include a Castra Place residence on a 525 square metre block bought for $10.35 million in 2011 by the Lowy family.
There was also a townhouse which businessman David Dunworth purchased for $9.35 million in late 2010.
There are $14 million-plus hopes for the beachfront of venture capitalist Richard Woods and his wife Vickki McFadden, the non-executive chairman of labour hire firm Skilled and since March last year president of the federal government's Takeovers Panel.
The couple rebuilt after they bought in 1998 for $2.49 million.
It has been listed through McGrath agents Ben Collier and James Agostini for November 29 auction.
They own the duplex next door, having bought the first half in 1999 for $1,825,000 and then outlaying $5 million in 2012.
Back from the harbour, Judit Korner, the matriarch behind the Madame Korner beauty empire, sold her long-held Bay Street, Byron Bay home for $7.2 million at auction.
The Paddington couple, lawyer Annabel Crookes and GPT Group analyst Tim Koroknay, secured the double block offering through Richardson & Wrench agent Robynne Arnouts and Michael Dunn.
