Title Deeds

Terry Tzaneros and his wife, Anne, have emerged as buyers of one of this year’s most expensive houses, paying close to $40 million for the Point Piper waterfront trophy home of London-based expat lawyer Sarah Cooke.

At that level it is the highest house result outside Point Piper, where there have been three sales in recent weeks for more than $37 million.

Sources suggest he paid a little more than what the property passed in for at auction last month. Elsewhere, local bank boss head buys himself new digs in line with his new job.

There is no shortage of $20m house sales here, but it's the sort of sale usually found by the harbour and with glamorous add-ons to sweeten the price. Not this time.

The Cremorne Point house of Olympic gold medallist Freddy Lane is up for grabs for only the second time since it was built for the champion swimmer in the 1920s.

The Palm Beach trophy home Gaelforce owned by London-based jet-setters Gael and Francesco Boglione has sold two months after it was listed with a $19.5 million asking price.

Listed a week ago for $14 million, sold days later for $16 million: welcome to the eastern suburbs property market.

TITLE DEEDS: Former turf club chairman Laurie Macri is off to Perth, leaving his Coogee Castle ripe for new owners; Armando Kusuma proves a savvy first home buyer pocketing $1 million gain on his first buy, presumably with some help from dad; and David Wenkart, of the private hospital owning family, buys fugitive Harry Huang's Mosman digs.

Forget Point Piper or Bellevue Hill. The rich list families like the Triguboffs, Vicars, Moran and Molnar families are buying in Bondi’s Ben Buckler.

In a high end suburb full of apartments, this prized, stunning house will be one to watch on the market