By A. James For Daily Mail Australia
02:20 25 Jan 2024, updated 02:33 25 Jan 2024
A glorious retro-style home in Sydney‘s eastern suburbs owned by top Channel Seven executive Bruce McWilliam is set to go under the hammer next month.
Located in the sought after ‘Paris’ end of Paddington, 5kms from the CBD, the luxurious pad has been listed with an eye-watering price guide of $14.5million.
McWilliam bought the spacious three-bedroom, three-bathroom two-storey home as an investment property in 2002 for $2,735,000 reports The Wentworth Courier.
Since then McWilliam, who is Seven’s Commercial Director, has renovated the original house into a chic ‘European’ style dwelling.
Features include timber flooring, French doors, and two private covered balcony’s – known as Loggia – which open out from the bedrooms on the upper floor.
Meanwhile, the large kitchen boasts a walk-in pantry, generous breakfast island and plenty of bench space.
There’s also an al fresco entertainment deck downstairs that opens onto a spacious ‘family room’.
Other features include a separate ‘sitting room’, formal dining room and lounge room.
Highlights also include a large sculptured garden and a private office that can be converted into a fourth bedroom.
According to the report McWilliam’s hopes for a big pay day on the sale are well founded since the five-bedroom pad next door went under the hammer in November for a staggering $17.5million.
In 2021 the Daily Mail Australia reported that McWilliam is estimated to own around $100million worth of residential property in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, as well as commercial property in Double Bay.
That year the high-flying executive laid off a Spanish-style investment property in Bellevue Hill for $9million.
The five-bedroom home was listed with an $8.5million price guide, but is believed to have ‘sold well above’ that.
He bought the Bellevue Hill home in his wife, Nicole McWilliam’s name back in 2007 for $4.72million, and was renting it out for $4000 per week.
McWilliam lives in a property in Point Piper, close to his good friend and former business partner, Malcolm Turnbull.
