Most expensive house in Australia
06 August 2015 by News Desk
If you think houses are expensive in London, New York or Tokyo, think again, as the most expensive house in Australia has just been sold for… $70 million.
Australian billionaire James Packer has just sold his home in Perth for around $70m, the highest price ever paid for a property in Australia. The six-floor mansion-style house was built by Packer and completed in 2013 and has six bedrooms, a gymnasium, a 20 car garage and a 20-seat cinema. In 2009 Packer paid $30m to buy three properties that were later joined together, and a further $40m on extensions and improvements. The property has been sold following Packer’s recent divorce. His ex-wife was not a fan of the plush pad, saying that living in the mansion was like ‘living in a shopping mall’.
The previous Australian property record is $57.5 million, set in 2009 for a Perth riverside estate sold by mining heiress Angela Bennett. The record in Sydney, of $52m, was set in 2013 when a Chinese businessman bought a Point Piper waterfront property called Altona.
