Prestige Property: 32 Becker Place, Mount Ommaney, QLD
A capacious hilltop residence sets a new standard of luxury.
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A suspended concrete tri-level glass and stone mansion perched on the hill in Mount Ommaney, Brisbane, is one of the city’s most elevated waterfront properties.
Boasting panoramic views of Brisbane River, as well as distant mountain range views of Cunningham’s Gap, comes this 5-bedroom, 5-bathroom, 12-car parking pile spread across a secluded 2858sqm location.
Inside, a three-storey central void is reminiscent of five-star international hotels – giving an immense sense of space, further elevated by soaring panes of glass and a sweeping circular staircase. Drawing the eye in once more is a stone-clad internal lift that services all floors.
The top level – facing the river – sees the master bedroom, complete with ensuite, walk-in-robe, and nearby study or nursery. The master bedroom is surrounded by private rooftop deck.
The middle level is the core of the home, with the living, dining and kitchen space all located here. The kitchen boasts a quartz island bench and butler’s kitchen alongside a powder room. A custom-built, spacious bar – made of French Oak – which opens out onto a spacious deck is ideal for drinking in the views.
Also on the middle level is the children’s wing – featuring three bedrooms, each with individual balconies. One enjoys an ensuite, while the other two share a bathroom.
The lower level also homes a 10-seat, 3- tired French-inspired cinema, replete with a cocktail cabinet and games table area. Further, a custom-built Alpine stone bar and backs ono an enormous rumpus room with a full-sized lounge and pool table.
Also on the lower level is a bedroom which acts well as a guest room. Also here is another luxurious bathroom.
The lower level also grants access – via stacking doors – to the alfresco entertaining area complete with magnesium infinity pool, 8-seater spa and outside pool house with shower and toilet.
Located 25-minutes to Brisbane’s CBD and an hour’s drive to the Gold Coast, the grand residence enjoys the conveniences of Mount Ommaney without forgoing its relaxed lifestyle.
The listing is with NGU Real Estate Toowong’s Emil Juresic (+61 481 601 793), POA. ngurealestate.com.au
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The 25-room mansion was built for an heiress and later belonged to a socialite and architect on the Empire State Building.
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A 110-year-old Colorado estate that has hosted Frank Sinatra and Lyndon B. Johnson just slashed $10 million off its price tag.
The 12,000-square-foot manor house—with 25 rooms—and its five accessory dwelling in the alpines of Evergreen was relisted on Friday asking $16.8 million, down from its initial $26.8 million price in 2023.
The sellers, Richard and Pamela Bard, who paid $1.3 million for the “legacy property” named Greystone Estate in 1992, have shopped it around on and off for the past 20 years, according to agent Jessica Northrop at Compass Real Estate.
Richard Bard, CEO of his own private equity firm, has “hosted many corporate events and retreats where important business is discussed but they are also able to relax,” Northrop said. “Greystone has a special way of making people feel at ease.”
Bard said “it’s not a casual effort” to sell. He said it’s difficult to find a buyer with the facilities to “take care of it.”
The Bards intend to move closer to their children in Denver.
Before the Bards, Greystone Estate had several eras—as a summer house, a guest ranch and a business base—since it was built in 1915 by Genevieve Phipps, an industrialist’s daughter.
Phipps, who spent her inheritance on the land, built the 54-acre summer escape with the “elegance and feel of a fine Adirondack mansion combined with a mountain rustic style,” according to an online record of the estate’s history.
Its heyday, arguably in the 1940s to 1980s, saw Sinatra, Johnson and Groucho Marx come through its doors, when its owner William Sandifer, a socialite and one the Empire State Building’s architects, operated a guest ranch out of the place.
The Bards, who used a carriage house on the property as their company headquarters, completed Greystone’s full modernization in 1997. They also opened up the living and dining areas to receive more light, raised the ceiling on the upper level and combined several rooms to create a primary suite.
They replaced an outdoor pavilion and its helipad with something more suitable for their daughter’s wedding in 2001, according to Northrop.
The main 25-room manor includes a wine cellar, bar, gym and library.
The additional structures, which include a cottage, a log cabin, a pool house, a carriage house and a pavilion and guest house, surround the pool area and overlook acres of aspen groves and mountains.
It’s being sold by a Chinese billionaire who’s accumulated a handsome portfolio of lavish real estate in the U.S.
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