Cookbook queen Donna Hay passes in Paddington terrace from weekend auction: Title Tattle
Cookbook queen Donna Hay and her butcher husband, Bill Wilson, have put a $2.4 million asking price on their Paddington terrace after a $2.3 million vendor bid at its weekend auction.
The Windsor Street terrace – which comes in Tabbereresque all-white – was bought for $1.42 million in 2003 as an investment.
The couple also own a $3.85 million Watsons Bay residence. They retain another investment property in Holdsworth Street, Woollahra, which was bought for $1,615,000 in 2008 for Hay’s homewares shop.
The asking price came as there were two registered parties who did not bid along with two other parties whose finance wasn't locked in and they weren't ready to commit in the lead-up to its proposed weekend auction listing with $2.4 million hopes through McGrath agent James Dack.
Elsewhere in Paddington the food editor and cookery writer, Loukie Werle, sold her Bent Street terrace before its scheduled auction through Debbie Donnelley of goodyerDonnelley Real Estate. It last traded for $202,500 in 1985. The three level terrace - marketed as having a spectacular kitchen - sold at an undisclosed price, but understood to be well over its $2 million plus hopes.
