Jimmy Barnes reduces Southern Highlands retreat asking price
Rock legend Jimmy Barnes and his wife, Jane, have adjusted the asking price of their NSW Southern Highlands riverfront weekender, Riverbend.
The Berrima property hit the market in July last year with $2.5 million hopes, but they recently revised their expectations to $2.25 million.
The Barneses, who live in a Botany warehouse compound, just don’t make enough use of the sandstone house on 2,758 square metres.
The Berrima house cost the Cold Chisel frontman $1.85 million in 2008.
Gwen Meredith, the scriptwriter for Australia's longest-running and much-loved radio serial Blue Hills, once owned the property on the Wingecarribee River, a retreat from her Seaforth home, Braybrook.
It is located in a quiet setting just a short stroll from the historic village.
Listing agent Drew Lindsay at Drew Lindsay Bowral describes it as three solid sandstone pavilions linked by long covered verandas that jut over the river.
It is most notably missing any recording studio, a feature in Barnes' current Botany property and his earlier Southern Highlands retreat. They had quit the highlands in 1994 when their Mittagong house was bought for $1.4 million by property developer and muso Andrew Richardson.
