Shane Warne secured $10.85 million in Kilkerran sale, so no Brighton record
Retired spin bowler Shane Warne Brighton house sale price has been registered.
The historic four bedroom house, Kilkerran, which sits on a 2,202 square metre estate, fetched $10.85 million.
Property Observer previously reported Warne sought $18 million with early and repeated offers around $13 million. Fairfax Media had put the sale price at around $15 million in ensuing reports.
The Brighton prestige market has been subdued for some three years or so.
The Warne sale narrowly topped the suburb's 2013 sales, just eclipsing the $10.8 million sale of Kinane to the Esposito family, which had been speculated as $10 million.
Another big sale last year being $9.25 million when the retired cricket captain Ricky Ponting bought his Melbourne abode, also through JP Dixon.
Selling in Sydney's Sutherland Shire, Ponting and his wife, Rianna bought the Shandford Estate, a 1920s Edwardian seven-bedroom house on 1890 square metres with tennis court and a private laneway to the nearby Brighton beach.
When Warne's William Street property was first unofficially listed in August 2012, Sportsbet.com.au briefly took bets on what the property would fetch.
It had $10 million to $12 million as the favourite price bracket, with the odds at $2.60.
The Brighton property record remains $15.6 million, set in 2009 on Glyndon Avenue. The sale will sit as the suburb's eighth above $10 million since 2005.
Caveat title documents published last November indicated Kilkerran was being bought by the Bellesis family of Brighton. Its paperwork leads to Maria Bellesis, the wife of Ross Bellesis, CEO and owner of the automotive parts company, Socobell.
Warne paid $8.55 million for the heritage listed home in 2009, which he shared with partner Simone Callaghan and their three children before the couple split in 2010.
The Warne's prior home in Brighton included one on nearby Middle Crescent which was bought for about $3.5 million in 2000 and sold for about $8.75 million seven years later.