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Racehorse owner and high-profile businessman Lloyd Williams celebrates after Rekindling\u2019s win at the 2017 Melbourne Cup. Picture: Stuart McEvoy.<\/p>\n
Seven-time Melbourne Cup winning owner Lloyd Williams has farewelled his luxury city penthouse for $17.7m.<\/p>\n
Mr Williams holds the record as the horse owner to have won the most Melbourne Cups, including with Twilight Payment in 2020.<\/p>\n
His other thoroughbreds also galloped to victory in the race that stops a nation in 1981, 1985, 2007, 2012, 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n
RELATED: Grand Geelong mansion linked to 10 Melbourne Cup winners hits market<\/a><\/p>\n Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Anthony Freedman puts Merricks North acreage up for sale<\/a><\/p>\n Brunswick West: Art Deco house where you can watch horse racing from the balcony <\/a><\/p>\n In 1994, the billionaire businessman established Crown Casino.<\/p>\n He later sold the majority of his interests in the site to his friend, the late media tycoon Kerry Packer and his son James Packer.<\/p>\n Mr Williams put his one-and-a-half-floor Melbourne residence featuring marble floors and custom-made panelled walls on the market with a $20m-$22m range in March.<\/a><\/p>\n Public records show the property in an Albert Rd complex nicknamed the \u201cTower of Power\u201d, due the number of richlisters and business bigwigs who have called it home, fetched a sum just below $18m.<\/p>\n The penthouse offers views across Melbourne.<\/p>\n Lloyd Williams, his grandson Frank, strapper MJ Doran and trainer Joseph O\u2019Brien pose with Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling at Werribee Racecourse in 2017. Picture: Scott Barbour\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n Kay & Burton chairman Gerald Delany, who had the listing alongside colleague Oliver Booth, declined to comment on the owner or purchaser.<\/p>\n But Mr Delany said the 1280sq m penthouse boasting a main bedroom with a two walk-in wardrobes and an ensuite, a wine storage area and views across Melbourne, had attracted inquiries from both local and overseas buyers.<\/p>\n \u201cI had broad interest, the campaign wasn\u2019t very long,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cTo have an apartment like this is a rarity, a penthouse that\u2019s at the top \u2013 or among the top one-and-a-half floors of a building, and that\u2019s why I had the interest I did \u2013 there\u2019s probably only two or three others like it in Melbourne.\u201d<\/p>\n The property\u2019s lower level has its own balcony as well as a granite-fitted kitchenette and wine storage.<\/p>\n There\u2019s plenty of space to store clothing and accessories in the walk-in wardrobe.<\/p>\n The new owner, who is based internationally, flew in to Australia to inspect the abode.<\/p>\n Mr Delany said many of the potential buyers were amazed by the residence\u2019s views which take in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Albert Park Lake and Port Phillip Bay.<\/p>\n He added Melbourne\u2019s prestige market was starting to warm up as spring approached.<\/p>\n \u201cThe top end of the market is seeing good strength in buying demand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Sign up to the Herald Sun Weekly Real Estate Update. Click here<\/a> to get the latest Victorian property market news delivered direct to your inbox.<\/p>\n MORE: Inside Melbourne\u2019s elite homes: What the young and rich want<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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