It comes as the eastern suburbs beaches enjoys a slew of record high sales results, most pertinently in Tamarama of $15.75 million last year when Annie Conley sold her beachside house and more recently in Bronte when green energy entrepreneur Carl Prins and his wife Kate bought for a high of $17.9 million.

First to hit the market in the hope of cashing in on the buyer activity was former Rubicon director Matthew Cooper, whose architect Madeleine Blanchfield-designed residence, Headland House, was listed in late June for more than $15 million.

Last month former Travelogic founder Craig Smith and his wife Kate listed their Thompson Street home that they bought as a knockdown-rebuild in 2017 for $12.5 million amid hopes of topping that result thanks to a new development approval for a Madeleine Blanchfield-designed residence.

And a few doors away, Nadia Jacob and Peter Scutt, founder of online home care platform Mable, have $14 million to $15 million expectations on their recently renovated house.

If only YouTube gamer Elliott Watkins, aka Muselk, hadn’t already snapped up the beachside house across the road from the Rex family for $9.28 million this month.

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