There are weeks in Sydney property when the listings read less like real estate and more like a social register. This is one of those weeks.
Lewis Ehrlich, a Sydney dentist who describes himself as the honorary dentist to Football Australia for the Matildas, Socceroos, A-League and national youth teams, has placed his four-level trophy home in South Coogee on the market. Local sources put the price guide at $15 million, with agents James Ball and Edward Quince of Sydney Sotheby's International Realty declining to comment on the listing.
Ehrlich purchased the clifftop property from fellow dentist Fadi Yassmin in 2024, paying $15 million for the privilege of those views: an uninterrupted sweep taking in Wedding Cake Island, North Bondi and Maroubra. He would also have paid stamp duty of roughly $980,000 on the transaction, meaning a sale at the guide price would represent a financial loss in real terms.
The home appears to have been sold without renovation. The five-bedroom, five-bathroom residence comes with a 10-metre pool, outdoor kitchen, wine cellar, sauna and wellness zone, cinema and rooftop retreat. Inside, engineered oak floors, a travertine herringbone-tiled foyer and skylights feature throughout, with lift access connecting all four levels. An auction is scheduled for 9am on Saturday, 28 March.
Ehrlich's honorary role with Football Australia involves educating players, management and medical staff on maintaining oral health for performance outcomes, according to the website of the Sydney Holistic Dental Centre, the practice founded by his father Josh Ehrlich and uncle Ron.
Vaucluse record in the crosshairs
A considerably more ambitious transaction is taking shape in Vaucluse, where former Macquarie Group executive Ben Brazil and his partner Diana Saw have listed their harbourside mansion with a guide of $60 million to $66 million. A sale at the top of that range would eclipse the suburb's standing house price record of $65,250,000, set in 2017 when hotel mogul Jerry Schwartz and his wife Debbie purchased a property from Singaporean tycoon Chio Kiat Ow.
Brazil and Saw bought the site in 2007 for $16,126,000 from David Mickler, a former Yahoo! Asia director of sales. They commissioned Woodward Architects to design a bespoke new build on the approximately 885 square metre beachfront block, replacing the original Mediterranean-style home. The result is a three-level residence with an industrial aesthetic: thick concrete slabs, movable glass walls, a white palette and skylights throughout. A gas kitchen with a concealed butler's pantry and an entertainer's terrace with views across Sydney Harbour to Mosman and North Head complete the picture.
Brazil spent nearly 11 years at Macquarie Group as a debt-investment banker, earning the nickname "Brains" among colleagues. He was the firm's third-highest paid executive in 2016 with total remuneration of $15 million, including a $6.7 million bonus. He was appointed to the Crown Resorts board by James Packer in 2009 and is now a co-founder of London-based FitzWalter Capital. It is understood the couple no longer require the four-bedroom home as they are based overseas. Ken Jacobs of Forbes Global Properties declined to comment on the listing.
Brazil's deliberate distance from family wealth is, for those who follow Sydney's financial circles, a well-known story. His father Lyn Brazil, a grazier tycoon and venture capitalist, told the Australian Financial Review in 2016 that his son had asked to be excluded from a family fortune estimated at more than $300 million: "He said, 'Don't even put me in the will'. Ben says he doesn't want any of it. He is determined to be his own man."
A Kurraba Point estate and a Glenorie acreage
Further afield, foot and ankle surgeon Martin Sullivan has listed an eight-bedroom, six-bathroom estate in Kurraba Point with a price guide of around $30 million. Sullivan purchased the site in 2001 for $5.3 million from commercial property magnate Robert Christie and has since transformed it into a layered harbourside compound with three separate living zones.
The main residence is a sandstone building in the Victorian gothic style. A second dwelling on the property has a tennis court, and a third space includes a gym, sauna, kitchenette and home office overlooking the pool and spa. Anna Chen of BresicWhitney Lower North Shore described it as a "true generational home" with the "privacy, scale and luxury of a Southern Highlands estate but in an iconic harbourside location." She holds the listing alongside Guido Scatizzi.
At the more accessible end of this week's prestige market, KIIS FM radio presenter Kyle Sandilands and his wife Tegan Kynaston have listed their Glenorie property with a price guide of $5.7 million to $5.9 million. Sandilands bought the six-bedroom, five-bathroom home for $3 million in 2022 and carried out renovations last year. The Georgian-style double-storey home sits behind a circular driveway and porte-cochere, with approximately 832 square metres of internal space. Carolyn Wheatley of Belle Property Dural holds the listing.
Sydney's prestige market continues to attract both local and international interest, driven by constrained supply at the top end and persistent demand from high-net-worth buyers. Whether vendors can achieve their asking prices in a market that has shown signs of softening in some segments remains to be seen, but this week's crop of listings suggests confidence, at least among sellers, remains intact.