Dirty Deeds Elizabeth Bay trophy home for August 1 auction

Dirty Deeds Elizabeth Bay trophy home for August 1 auction
Jonathan ChancellorJune 25, 2013

The Dirty Deeds filmmaker Deborah Balderstone and her husband, John, an investment manager, have relisted their 1890s Elizabeth Bay villa. Its listed for August 1 auction.

It initially had price hopes of more than $12.5 million last year through Richardson & Wrench Elizabeth Bay agents Jason Boon and Geoff Cox, who now have it inconjunction with Michael Finger and Diane Wilson at Ray White Double Bay. The latest campaign comes with $12 million plus hopes.

Hidden from the street by a high wall within gardens designed by William Dangar, it's on Billyard Avenue non-waterfront block, although it comes with shared jetty access.

There's been a William Smart redesign to the five-bedroom house in Elizabeth Bay.

The Balderstones bought the property for $6.8 million in 2003 from property entrepreneur Barry Wain.

It was unrenovated when sold by the veteran mining speculator Boris Ganke to Wain.

Title Tattle recalls the house was sold off by the Sydney City Council in 1971 for $133,000 to Boris Ganke after plans for a park were abandoned.

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.

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