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1814/780 Bourke St, Redfern has open-plan living areas leading to a balcony with city skyline views.
Aussie icon Ita Buttrose has listed her inner-Sydney apartment, which has city skyline views, for sale with an attractive asking price suggesting she wants a quick deal.
The now wheelchair-bound 82-year-old journalist, editor and businesswoman, who stepped down as ABC chair in March, has it on realestate.com.au for $1.69m.
That looks a good deal, since the 18th-floor two-bedroom two-bathroom apartment, described as “inner-city living at its best”, is up near the top of the Dowling high-rise in the Moore Park Gardens, Redfern complex.
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Ita Buttrose, AC OBE, with Savva Savas at a special live audience recording of podcast Three Food Memories in November.
But she’d picked it up for a bargain $1.55m when purchased from her long-time friends, Franco and Rita Napoli, only last April, records show.
It’s six floors higher than a two-bedder on level 12 that fetched $1.65m in July.
Buttrose, spotted having breakfast with friends on Saturday morning in the Gentle Breeze cafe at the Allen, Jack and Cottier-designed Moore Park Gardens block, is much loved within the complex and been a resident there for many years.
She’d been renting the apartment from the Napolis prior to last year’s purchase, which followed the snappy $1.4m sale of her house at Mittagong in the Southern Highlands that February.
The apartment has an attractive $1.69m asking price.
It’s only a few years back that Buttrose, AO, OBE, could be regularly seen walking her beloved Groodle, Cleo (now deceased) — named after the hugely popular women’s magazine she founded in 1972 — in nearby Moore Park.
But while she’s adored the views and northerly aspect of her apartment, the former Australian of the Year has recently been overheard grumbling about its two levels of stairs.
Beyond the front door she’s faced with seven steps going up into the bedroom level and then another seven steps to the open-plan living areas.
Buttrose has been a resident of the popular Moore Park Gardens complex for many years.
The advert for the apartment makes reference to a “convenient stair lift”, but it’s likely that Buttrose, who was the first woman to serve as editor in chief (1981-84) of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, would now be happier in a single-level residence.
She’s understood to be looking for a new home closer to her daughter, Kate McDonald, thought to live in Maroubra.
The Redfern apartment is listed with Florence Wong of Progress Real Estate, who recently sold the nearby Kepos St terrace owned by Lord Mayor Clover Moore, another Moore Park Gardens resident, for $4m.
