Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin - Property
Price like no other
This Surfers Paradise mega penthouse has exchanged hands for an eye-watering $9.5 million
IT’S one of the country’s best penthouses with a huge 21 car spaces and now it holds the Gold Coast penthouse record.
This week, property development company owner Ron Bakir sold his palatial Surfers Paradise apartment for $9.5 million.
The sale of the apartment tops the city’s previous penthouse high of $9.2 million, set six years ago when Melbourne builder Peter Devitt bought the apartment that crowns Main Beach’s Liberty Panorama tower.
The luxurious multi-floor skyhome at the Towers of Chevron Renaissance sits along one of the most popular tourist strips in the country and took two years to create.
The buyer of the Bakir penthouse, created on a floor originally intended to house six apartments but which became the offices of the Raptis Group, is an undisclosed Gold Coast resident.
With four bedrooms and five bathrooms, and just about every luxury a multimillionaire can think of, the penthouse spans the 39th and 40th floors at 3250/23 Ferny Ave, Surfers Paradise.
The penthouse was originally put on the market at $12.5 million in 2016, with the price later cut to $9.95 million.
Mr Bakir bought the ex-Raptis offices from receivers to a company linked to failed sharetrading firm chief “Aussie Rob” Wilson for $1.2 million in 2014.
He then spent several million dollars turning the space into a penthouse with a “‘wow” factor, aided by design tips from Sunland Group chairman Soheil Abedian.
Kollosche Prestige Agents principal Michael Kollosche marketed the penthouse in tandem with Prestige Property’s Harry Kakavas.