Russell crowe buys £6 million sydney heritage home

Upon my command, unleash my residence. That's right, after a four-year search, Russell Crowe and his wife, Danielle Spencer, have spent A$10 million (£6 million) on a Rose Bay property.

The purchase of Te Puke, a 1909 house updated with a 1927 Arts and Crafts-styled second floor, ends the entertainment industry couple's search for a family home for their two children, now aged seven and four. Along the way they inspected the A$50 million-plus Altona on the harbour in Point Piper in 2007, as well as unsuccessfully seeking pricey inland residence Le Manoir at Bellevue Hill, which fetched $23 million in 2009.

Spencer was keen to spend more, while Crowe, preferring to keep his Woolloomooloo apartment as a bolthole, only wanted to spend a modest amount. 

The six-bedroom house is set on 1200 square metres overlooking the fairways of the Royal Sydney Golf Club. Te Puke, pronounced ''teh-pook-eh'', is Maori for hill, and last traded at A$5.5 million in 2001. Crowe also has a luxury apartment in Sydney and a 320-hectare rural property near Coffs Harbour, NSW.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald