$30m+: Ex-Channel 7 boss’ home to break Bondi records

North Bondi’s freshest trophy-home listing is expected to set price records.

North Bondi’s freshest trophy-home listing, the recently completed project of Bruce McWilliam, the former commercial director at Channel 7, means the Ben Buckler peninsula will prise back the record price title from the opposite Bondi headland.

The Point Piper-based McWilliam, who is even more devoted to his property projects since stepping down as Kerry Stokes’s right-hand man in April last year, has the Brighton Blvd home listed through Raine & Horne agents Ric Serrao and Alex Lyons. They expect the oceanfront offering will eclipse the coastal strip’s priciest house sale, which was when fashion mogul Simone Zimmermann spent $30m on the other side of the world-famous beach near Marks Park in August 2023.

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Bruce McWilliam has listed his North Bondi spec home, which has six bedrooms, five bathrooms and five-car parking.

The Fletcher St, Bondi sale, in need of a renovation, but topped the coastal precinct’s previous house price records.

North Bondi’s priciest sale was for $22m on Ramsgate Ave in 2021, when CSA Architects director Alex Smith and his wife Michaella sold to Lenka Dransfield. The house sat on a 376sq m non-waterfront block.

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The house has a panoramic seascape to the north, south and east.

McWilliam’s six-bedroom, five-bathroom house with an 18m pool sits on a 449sq m holding with a panoramic seascape to the north, south and east.

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Bruce McWilliam. Picture: Renee Nowytarger/The Australian

The home spans three levels with an internal lift. It comes with a sculptural curved staircase in a skylit double-height void.

Freestanding houses are a neighbourhood rarity – most of the other dwellings are apartments – and newly constructed homes tend to be retained by the likes of Nick Molnar, Monica Saunders-Weinberg, Will Vicars, Michael Darling and Manuela Darling-Gansser. The priciest ever coastal apartment sale is the $24m paid by Andrew Roberts in 2022 on Notts Ave.

An off-the-plan purchase by Goodman Australia chief and former Wallaby Jason Little was at $23m for the penthouse in the Hall & Campbell development, bought as a gutted shell in June last year.

The sub-penthouse in the development being developed by Allen Linz and Eduard Litver sold quietly last week for $21.5m.

The clifftop pool.

One of the six bedrooms.

Beachy kitchen vibes.

Perfect view for sunrise.

Of course, father-and-son Central Element developers Wayne and Nathan Chivas currently have $20m to $30m hopes for their seven Pearl project offerings.

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