The couple have suggested they intend to head to the Central Coast.
It was sold by Ken Jacobs at Christie’s International, in the first $20 million-plus deal outside of Palm Beach on Sydney’s northern beaches, with Finisterre on Avalon’s Stokes Point selling for close to $20 million to the Oatley family in 2002.
Hawkins and Wall bought their adjoining blocks in March 2014 for $4 million.
Sydney’s financial year top home sale was $40 million in Point Piper last September when Westpac director Steve Harker sold his harbour-front to entrepreneur Gabriel Jakob and his wife, Alexandra, on extended settlement terms, with demolition plans emerging last month for a family triplex.
There is mystery surrounding the two most recent prestige sales as both were off-market.
The highest is believed to have been $33 million for Berthong on Elizabeth Bay. Then last month Alex Thorp and Shay Lewis-Thorp, sold in Bellevue Hill for a reported $30 million to neighbour Louise Christie through Pillinger Real Estate.
