The online real estate company’s chief and his wife Liesl paid $7.25 million in 2008 for the two-storey English-style residence, which they bought off ABC board member Joe Gersh.
The home on Albany Road, in Toorak’s billionaires row, was owned by Hains and his wife Helen for 55 years, and was previously home to Sir Keith Murdoch.
The hedge fund manager, who died in January, purchased the Georgian-style home for $108,000 in 1968 with his late wife, Helen. Previous owners included Sir Keith Murdoch.
The home on Albany Road, in Toorak’s billionaires row, was owned by Hains and his wife Helen for 55 years, and was previously home to Sir Keith Murdoch.
A circa $30 million sale in Toorak shows the strength of the top end, a $27.5 million clifftop estate hits the market in Melbourne’s playground of Sorrento and WA’s Yallingup clocks record sale.