Packer’s ex’s Watsons Bay hideaway gets makeover

New-improved 13 Cove St, Watsons Bay is set for February 11 auction.

Swimwear model-turned-fashion designer Jodhi Meares, who has moved to Byron Bay, has given her Watsons Bay hideway a makeover in order to sell it.

She’s also called in new agents, Raine and Horne Double Bay agents Christophe Serrao and principal Ric Serrao.

It still has the same guide of $4.8m as when listed last year elsewhere, but Christophe says she’s now a motivated seller.

“She really wants to sell it this time round,” he says.

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Fashion designer, Jodhi Meares. Source – https://www.instagram.com/jodhimeares/

An aerial view of the property, which is close by Camp Cove.

“We’ve done a lot of work to the property, totally repainted and some fresh landscaping and much better brand new photography/video.

“She’s moved to Byron Bay and no longer living and residing in the eastern suburbs.”

The heritage-listed double-storey 1880s two-bedder at 13 Cove St is set to go to auction on Tuesday, February 11.

She’d bought it for $2.75m in 2017 as her local bolthole as she split her time between Sydney and the US.

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There’s also fresh landscaping.

The realestate.com.au ad describes it as a “stylishly transformed north-east facing cottage in an exclusive coastal pocket” and popular Camp Cove, Watsons Bay ferry, the pub and Doyles restaurant and Gap walk are all within metres of the front door.

The founder of Tigerlily swimwear has now bought a four-bedroom, three-bathroom property for $4.1m, 15 minutes from the beach at Brooklet, inland from Byron.

The modernist-style designer home comes with an avacado, citrus, banana and papaw orchard.

It also has an arts studio.

Brooklet has fewer than 100 houses and a population of 250 people.