Actress Susan Hannaford's Balgowlah Heights harbourfront fetches $3.15 million
Actress and dressmaker Susan Hannaford paid $717,500 three decades ago for her house at Forty Baskets Beach.
It was sold by her financiers for $3.15 million on the weekend.
The Forty Baskets Beach property was bought when she was affectionately known as Kitty in the television series The Sullivans.
Mark Novak at the Novak Agency marketed the house at 30A Beatty Street, Balgowlah Heights as "still dressed in its 1970's attire."
Dramatically set over two levels with extensive harbour views, it has a very 1970s sunken lounge area.
It has five bedrooms plus two more in the teenagers' retreat located on the bottom level of the property.
The agency declined to comment last month at all on the listing after a query from Title Tattle, but A Current Affair later reported it was selling under Commonwealth Bank instructions.
The prominent Sydney estate agents Robert and Leonie Klaric who recently established an independent property advisory service were among those who took contracts for the listing on behalf of an undisclosed client.
Title Tattle recalls the house had been on and off the market since 1991.
"It didn't matter which decade we were in it was always a couple million worth more ...when it was worth $1 million she wanted $3 million, if it was $2 million she wanted $5 million, if it was $3 million she wanted $6 million," Klaric told ACA.
"It was just the way she did her maths," he said.
