As 2024 limps to an inglorious end, vodka baron Julian Moss knows better than most just how the market is faring compared with those heady days of early 2022. Almost three years after Moss listed his luxury Hawkesbury River property Lambourne Estate with hopes of $14 million to $15 million it has sold for more than $7.5 million.
The Lambourne Estate at Lower Portland on the Hawkesbury River was on offer for $14 million to $15 million. Credit: Presumably, that’s not quite how the campaign was meant to pan out, but the more than $7 million discount off the guide did at least get the deal done. Willu Property’s Beth O’Brien said gag orders prevented her disclosing the result, but did concede it sold at the upper end of her latest $7 million to $8 million guide.
It went unsaid if the buyer was also meant to be kept a secret, but thankfully a caveat let that out of the bag too, so congratulations to Birchgrove-based lawyer Richard Villari and his wife Evelyn on their good buy. ASM Liquor co-founder Julian Moss with his former wife, singer Harper Mead. Credit: Steve Lunam Moss is a former IT recruitment businessman who co-founded liquor producer Artisan Spirit Merchant in 2011, and which launched its vodka label VDKA 6100 a decade ago amid much fanfare, thanks to help from Hollywood superstar Robert De Niro in terms of design and branding, and financial backing from local lad James Packer .
Moss won’t be doing too badly from his Lower Portland property. He bought it in 1996.
