This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
AFTERPAY co-founder and FinClear chairman David Hancock and his wife, philanthropist Fee Hancock, have sold their Centennial Park mansion after a comprehensive no-expenses-spared renovation for $23 million.
They paid $8 million four years ago for 78 Lang Road, in Sydney’s inner east, a few years after they’d sold their Federation residence two doors down for $7 million and moved to Bowral property Kurkulla, in the Southern Highlands.
On the buy-side of 78 Lang Road is businessman and investor and Shark Tank’s Robert Hervajec, and his, wife, Dancing With the Stars dancer and judge Kym Johnson, realestate.com.au reports.
The pair met when they were partnered on the hit TV show.
Ashley Bierman of Ray White Double Bay managed the sale of the 835 sqm block. The circa $27,500 per sqm land rate is a suburb record, according to realestate.com.au.
Prestige residential prices in Sydney rose by 2.7% in 2023, Knight Frank data shows.
Following the Weir Phillips Architects-led transformation, the five-bedroom residence now includes an office, media room, gym, sauna, swimming pool and loggia, set in a garden by Myles Baldwin.
Curated finishes include a kitchen bench made from volcanic rock imported from France.
Hancock was an original director of buy-now, pay-later fintech Afterpay and reportedly netted $100 million from his investment.
Croatian-Canadian Herjavec founded BRAK Systems, an integrator of internet security software, which he sold to AT&T Canada in 2000 for $30.2 million.
He also founded IT and computer security firm Herjavec Group.
He first appeared as an investor on the Australian version of reality show Shark Tank in 2015.
Johnson appeared on the first three seasons of Dancing with the Stars in Australia and appeared on the US version of the show, on which she was partnered with Hervajec in 2015.
