Nothing dire about Point Piper as John Illsley snappily sells Point Piper apartment
Jonathan ChancellorFebruary 12, 2013
It's taken just a fortnight for the legendary Dire Straits bass guitarist John Illsley to sell his Point Piper apartment.
The three-bedroom Wolseley Road apartment came with $3 million-plus hopes, with its selling agents Sally Hampshire of Laing+Simmons Double Bay and McGrath agent Bethwyn Richards now sworn to secrecy.
It cost $690,000 shortly after Dire Straits' 1986 tour of Australia.
The stylishly reinvented 241-square-metre apartment is atop a Wolseley Road block of seven called Harbour Gate.
There's also a private boat shed on title with access to Seven Shillings Beach.
These days the English-born Illsley, who lives in Hampshire, paints, having promised himself to pursue that passion when the time came in 1993 for Dire Straits to finish its touring. The band broke up in 1995.Jonathan Chancellor
Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.
