Ex-Rugby League star sells Point Piper beachfront for $37m

3A Buckhurst Ave, Point Piper is right on Seven Shillings Beach.

A former rugby league player who bought a Double Bay designer penthouse off the plan two years ago has just sold his Point Piper waterfront house — but he had to lower his initial price hopes by $23m to do it.

Bill Roney, who played for Eastern Suburbs and Parramatta in the 1950s and 1960s and later became a surgeon, and his wife Sara, first listed 3A Buckhurst Ave about two years ago with Highland Double Bay Malouf’s Bill Malouf, in conjunction with Brad Pillinger of Pillinger, in October, 2023.

No price guide was given at the time, but comparables were offered in the $60m range, including nearby Akuna which had just sold for $60m. That was unrenovated, so surely this newly built house would sell for more than that. But every property was different, and would-be buyers were apparently discouraged by Buckhurst Ave’s difficult access.

The sold sticker first went up on the listing on the Highland website this morning and soon after realestate.com.au. Malouf had no comment when contacted. Pillinger also declined to comment.

Separate sources revealed the home sold for $37m.

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The Roneys bought an old house on the 961 sqm block for $10.15m in 2011.

They rebuilt the following year.

The buyer saw the property only recently, but it had been for sale for more than two years.

They say the purchaser has only recently looked at the property.

Other sources say that the offers were all in the $40m range when the property was first offered to the market.

Back then, sources had advised that the Roneys’ motivation for selling the Point Piper beachfront was to buy into the new landmark Luigi Rosselli-designed Ode development in Double Bay, which settles soon.

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Bill Roney, back row, far right, played in the Eastern Suburbs 1960 Grand Final side. Picture: Sydney Roosters

The couple paid $21.7m through Ist City’s Brad Caldwell-Eyles and Julian Hasemer for the 262 sqm three-bedroom, three-bathroom (plus study and TV room) spread in the exclusive circular section on the sixth floor, with north-easterly views of the harbour, that includes a private rooftop terrace with plunge pool.

It was a huge price for the apartment, equating to a whopping $96,000 per sq m.

In Point Piper, the Roneys had bought an old home on the 961 sqm beachfront block in Buckhurst Ave for $10.15m in 2011 and rebuilt.

The two-storey ultra-modern mansion, to a design by Jamie Grounds of Jamisa Architects, was completed the following year with views of the Harbour Bridge.

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