Siimon Reynolds sells Double Bay apartment for $1.56 million
Los Angeles self-betterment entrepreneur Siimon Reynolds has secured $1.56 for his Double Bay bachelor pad.
Last traded for $788,000 in 1997, the two-bedroom 1930s apartment had undergone an extensive renovation by BKH architect Ian Halliday in collaboration with architect and feng shui master Howard Choy.
It has a bath as big as a room given his predilection to read during lengthy baths and just the aeroplane galley kitchen given Reynolds typically ate out during his bachelorhood.
His late mother, Jennifer, had spent years house-hunting with her numerical disciple son indulging his quest to find the perfect property with the right "lucky" number: apartment 3, number 1.
Title Tattle recalled the then Nationwide Realty auction in 1997.
The Wiston Gardens, Double Bay abode sold through BHR agents Daniel Baran and Reece Coleman, who expected more than $1.5 million at last night's auction by Cooley Auctions. The auctioneer Andrew Cooley took 29 bids from the four registered bidders after the initial $1.4 million opening offer. Andrew Cooley had instructions to sell after the bidding got to $1,495,000.
Reynolds, who married the writer, pop culture commentator and television presenter Kathryn Eisman in a ceremony at Palm Springs in the US last year, came to fame at 21 when appointed creative director at Grey Advertising in 1986.
