Les Samba's Pomeroy Potts Point apartment sells
The Pomeroy, Potts Point, apartment of the slain Sydney racing identity Les Samba has been finally sold, some 14 months after its initial listing.
Listed for sale with $2.75 million initial hopes through Richardson & Wrench Elizabeth Bay, the Macleay Street unit fetched $2.1 million.
Its most recent list price was $2,295,000.
It cost $1.7 million when bought off the plan by Samba Group Pty Ltd in 2003 from the Winten development group, with settlement in 2004.
The Pomeroy apartment came with extensive 54-sqare-metre terrace overlooking the Yellow House on Macleay Street but went without more than one forlorn potted planting during the eight-year ownership.
It's been bought by veterinarian Raoul Wanner and his wife, Ingrid.
Samba was shot dead as he tried to flee from a gunman police believe lured him to an ambush on a busy street in Melbourne's bayside suburb of Middle Park in February last year. His unsolved murder was the subject to a recent Four Corners program.
The Sydney-based Samba, a former horse trainer, was considered an expert judge of yearlings and was a big spender at sales around the country for many years.
He and his family owned several top racehorses and had success with the 2006 Victoria Derby runner-up Gorky Park. In 1969, Samba was the strapper for Rain Lover when it won the Melbourne Cup.
