Instagram food blogger Stephanie Conley-Buhre’s $60m renovation project turned down

The street side – bienvenue chez nous, welcome to our home – doormat remained out the front of Villa Madelon, the Beaulieu-sur-Mer retreat of Bellevue Hill cookery blogger Stephanie Conley-Buhre and her ­entrepreneurial husband Oskar Buhre.

The villa was the recent setting for several Instagram recipe presentations including ​​Tian de legumes, “a rustic Provencale dish that celebrates the simplicity of cooking vegetables”.

But as the sun officially set on the 2025 European summer, the property flipper extraordinaire was not in residence in the south of France village.

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Stephanie Conley Buhre. Picture: Instagram.

Perhaps the heiress had been drawn back to Sydney by a battle over a stymied $15m Darling Point property project.

The Land & Environment Court considered the family’s application last week for their expansive hillside holding comprising three Art Deco apartment complexes and vacant land on which they wish to add a six-storey apartment block.

The S34 conciliation hearing was terminated after no agreement could be reached, with a directions hearing scheduled for October.

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The expansive hillside holding.

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The 2385sq m holding, that runs between Mona Rd and Loftus St, is held by Broken Hill Investments, with the beneficial shareholding split between sisters Stephanie and Annie.

The site consolidation was started in 1987 by their late father, philanthropist John Conley.

The sisters briefly sought Double Bay agents Ashley Bierman and Craig Pontey to find a buyer in 2022 at $45m.

“The Hill is an outstanding and rare opportunity to secure a development opportunity in one of the most tightly-held real estate locations in the world,” Bierman said at the time.

The blocks, known as The Hill, offered 12 existing apartments which had been zoned for medium density apartments.

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Stephanie Conley-Buhre sold this home for $80m last year.

Inside the $80m home. Picture: Supplied

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Of course, Stephanie secured her own $80m sale windfall atop Bellevue Hill in mid-2024, in what ranks as the most out-of-line bullish sale of the post pandemic era after she restored the four-level 1930s Spanish mission mansion, Alcooringa, which she’d bought for $28.5m in 2021.

Ray White Double Bay’s Ashley Bierman has confirmed he sold the “extraordinary” Victoria Rd Spanish Mission-style residence, Alcooringa, in a hush-hush off-market deal in June.

It was reported more than $20m was spent on the lavish reno, which includes an internal swimming pool and three kitchens in the 2000sqm home on a 1560sqm block, but even if that’s the case, she’s still made a handsome $30m profit.

+ Additional reporting: James MacSmith

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