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Watsons Bay is having its moment. Usually there are very few homes for sale in the tightly held seaside village.
But downsizing, deceased estates and new opportunities mean there’s a clutch of beautiful homes on offer this spring from cute weatherboard cottages right through to the mansion previously owned by fashion designer Collette Dinnigan.
RELATED: Former home of Collette Dinnigan has $15m guide
Hooked on a fisherman’s cottage
Justin and Dominique Hind, who co-founded the advertising agency With Collective, bought their five-bedroom, five-bathroom with double garage at 8 Gap Rd from Dinnigan three years ago for $9 million.
And after a $5 million lavish transformation by the acclaimed Weir Phillips Architects, it’s now on the market with a $15 million guide with Gavin Rubinstein of Ray White TRG.
Mr Hind said: “The renovation was significant and grew beyond the original expectation because we wanted to pay respect to the original building, which led us to do more than initially planned.”
They’re a little sad to be moving on. “It’s just a wonderful community … we see a lot of the other local residents at Camp Cove in summer and we’ve found it to be really friendly.”
Mr Rubinstein, with colleague Oliver Lavers, is also selling the transformed cottage at 15 Cliff St of Gough Recruitment CEO Joel Barbuto and his husband, Shayne, with a $4 million guide.
Among the other fresh listings in the enclave, where famous residents include film director George Miller and Westfield’s co-chief executive, Steven Lowy and wife Judy, is one of Watsons Bay’s prized, signature weatherboard cottages
The four-bedroom, three-bathroom home at 1 Pacific St, which has a double garage, owned by the late Tony Coote AM, of the famous Angus & Coote jeweller family, and his wife, Toni.
This was the Sydney bolthole for Mr Coote, who died a year ago bequeathing his Mulloon Creek Natural Farm at Bungendore near Canberra to his Mulloon Institute where research is continuing into drought relief strategies.
Richardson and Wrench Double Bay’s Marion Marion Badenoch and Michael Dunn have a guide of $3.7 million ahead of a September 18 auction.
“I think it will appeal to a retiring couple or even a young family who like the proximity to Camp Cove beach and the ferry ride commute into the city,” Ms Badenoch said.
Then there’s the upcoming listing of the freestanding 1924 cottage Kirkdale on two titles, at 23 Cliff St and 33 Cove St.
It was built 95 years ago by John Stinson Carroll, who was married to May, but he was to spend only a few short years at the home before his death in the Greycliffe ferry disaster of November 3, 1927.
The Royal Mail steamer Tahiti sliced through the wooden Watson’s Bay ferry just off Bradleys Head, killing 40 people and injuring dozens more.
The property has been held by the Carroll family for three generations, with Lee Carroll and his wife Jan now selling.
“My clearest memory is learning to swim at Watsons Bay,” Mr Carroll said. “Growing up in Watsons Bay, we spent every day at the beach, in the water, or fishing … the little village has so many fond memories.”
Paul Rich of Rich’s Double Bay has a guide of $7 million to $8 million.
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