The recently settled sale is No. 6 on the top 20 home sales list around the country for this year<\/a>, as revealed on Wednesday by News Corp.<\/p>\n The land she\u2019s snapped up was owned by hardware tsar the late Graham Nock, of the Nock & Kirby family.<\/p>\n
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Could this bright pink mansion, adjacent to her newly expanded property, be next in Gretel\u2019s sights? Source: Million Dollar Listing, Sydney.<\/p>\n
Nock had been approached many times by agents wanting to sell the huge property before his death in May at the age of 96. <\/p>\n
His wife, Pamela, had died in 2022.<\/p>\n
The $59m deal consisted of the 1960s house with pool on a 1442sq m block and the 1189sq m block next door. <\/p>\n
Ken Jacobs of Forbes Global Properties was behind the off-market deal, though he\u2019s not commenting on it.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear why the Packer heiress wanted the extra space, though being a billionaire, she doesn\u2019t really need a reason. It\u2019s likely the ugly old house will soon go.<\/p>\n
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An image of Packer heir apparent Clyde, Kerry\u2019s older brother, blowing out birthday candles at his 4th birthday party on July 22nd 1939 at \u201cCairnton\u201d, the Packer family home in Bellevue Hill. Picture: Francis Packer Instagram<\/p>\n
To be a large veggie patch, perhaps? With some cows beyond that to keep the grass down?<\/p>\n
Neighbours recall the vacant lot was previously green grass, so perhaps this recent shot indicates she\u2019s planning an orchard or some canola crops?<\/p>\n
The reason for the purchse could be as simple as preventing someone else from purchasing it and having another large home built there overlooking her property.<\/p>\n
Or maybe she wanted to avoid the construction noise of a new residence being built by pesky new neighbours.<\/p>\n
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James and Kerry Packer in an undated photo.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve got to wonder what other adjoining properties Gretel has in her sights, and some are wondering if the adjacent bright pink home could be a future target.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s owned by Edward Fairfax Simpson, grandson of the late media proprietor Sir Warwick Fairfax.<\/p>\n
If that 1902sq m property ever became available, she could potentially own a massive 7000sqm compound, which experts advise would be worth more than $200m.<\/p>\n
She\u2019d bought Winston, designed by Edwardian architect John Manson, in 2000 for $11.25m.<\/p>\n
But Gretel still has a way to go to expand her boundaries to the extent of her brother, James, whose nearby Cairnton estate occupies 1.1ha.<\/p>\n
That was amassed over three generations of Packer family ownership since Sir Frank Packer first bought land there in 1935.<\/p>\n
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Sir Frank Packer started buying up land in Sydney\u2019s east in 1935. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n
Cairnton is one of the biggest private compounds in Sydney\u2019s east.<\/p>\n
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