Accenture duo take keys to Mosman’s gothic mansion Allowah
Accenture power couple Amy Pillay and her husband, Amit Bansal, have taken the keys to Mosman’s historic Allowah estate, paying $10.6 million for the neo-Gothic mansion.
Artificial intelligence expert Mr Bansal is Accenture’s global data chief and Ms Pillay heads up the health and medtech division at the consulting giant.
Amy Pillay and husband Amit Bansal paid $10.6m for Mosman’s Allowah mansion.
Settlement documents show the couple bought the five-bedroom Musgrave Street home in April, from Western Sydney Wanderers FC co-owner Glenn Duncan and his wife, Lisa. Mr Duncan has moved to Florida, where he is executive chairman of Pirtek, the family hydraulic hose supplier business.
The Duncans bought the property in 2014 from banking executive Tim Robinson and his wife, Kirstine, for $8.5 million, who had converted the building, previously a boarding house and with apartments, into a single, grand residence.
The property failed to sell at its April 4 auction, but agent Claudia Portale of The Agency North negotiated a deal 10 days later, lower than the initial $12 million hopes pinned on the estate.
With views over Mosman Bay, 1881-built Allowah is one of Mosman’s earliest homes and has a chef’s kitchen, library, French oak floors, a Paul Bangay-designed garden, a swimming pool, bath house and off-street parking for 10 cars.
The estate stands out in a suburb full of Federation-era homes, Ms Portale said, adding, “The stunning property is one of a few examples of Gothic-style architecture on the lower north shore”.
Longueville’s trophy run continues with $21m sale
Also on Sydney’s lower north shore, once low-key Longueville had a new, trophy deal in the sale of the home of airport infrastructure supplier Avionics’ boss, Nick Brumley. The sale reset the suburb’s non-waterfront record at about $21 million, its second-highest sale.
Nick Brumley’s Longueville home has reset the suburb’s non watefront sale.
Designed by Stanic Harding architects, the five-bedroom home was designed as a family compound and has views over Woodford Bay. The contemporary residence features smart home technology, a 15-metre pool and a 5 kilowatt Tesla power wall.
Mr Brumley’s house, which last changed hands for $11.88 million in 2018, sold through Belle’s Simon Harrison and Kim Walters; they declined to comment.
The new Longueville focus began in May with the $19.25 million sale of a Kenneth Street home to former gold mining boss Gervaise Heddle. Before this, the suburb record was $13.5 million.
In late August, Macquarie Group’s Phil Coffey and his wife, Kerry, offloaded their historic Longueville estate, Wigram, for an undisclosed sum between $19 million and $20 million.
In early September, Longueville locals, yachtie Rob and his wife, Maree, sold their Lucretia Avenue deep waterfront for about $18 million. And on September 20, the suburb’s record was broken anew with the sale of a three-level, Arabella Street, waterfront property by Phillip and Jean Barnard to Yi Fei Chen for some $23.5 million, a caveat on the deed shows.
Longueville’s Otahki is guiding $50 million and is expected to reset the lower north shore price record.
All eyes are now on Longueville’s designer compound listed by fintech investor Danita Lowes and financial services industry leader David Fite for about $50 million. That property, “Otahki”, is expected to reset the entire lower north shore record, and on offer through Forbes’ agent Ken Jacobs.
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