Sydney property: Peter Placek sells Point Piper house for about $30 million
Peter Placek arrived in Australia in the 1960s with virtually nothing. He’s not done too badly since.
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Peter Placek arrived in Australia in the 1960s with virtually nothing. He’s not done too badly since.
Designer water entrepreneurs Stephanie and Garrett Jandegian look to be having a good time financially, given their purchase in the prestigious Sydney suburb.
Share The keys to Balmain’s most expensive house have finally been handed over to the buyer who paid $11 million, revealed on title records to be the daughter of gold mining magnate Xu Hanjing. Cathy Xiao Xu, 33, is only the fourth owner of the historic waterfront house since it was built in the 1880s by Charles Yeend, the son of prominent innkeeper James Yeend, and follows 60 years of Cloughessy family ownership after they bought it for £3350 in 1960 from the liquidators for Mort’s Dock and Engineering Company. Cathy’s identity has been a closely guarded secret by Cobden & Hayson’s ...