Kathryn Welling, Property journalist
Updated 5 Apr 2024, 9:47am
First published 5 Apr 2024, 9:46am
A very pretty profit.
The Clontarf house where mother and daughter authors Barbara and Anna Fienberg wrote the successful children’s series Tashi has sold in just five weeks for more than $4.5m.
The late Barbara Fienberg, a teacher librarian who had the idea of an elfin character with magical shoes having adventures bought the landmark house with her husband Len in Peronne Ave for $115,000 in 1979. That scored the sellers an incredible 3813 per cent profit.
Inside the Modernist house.
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The Modernist house was designed by Peter Swan in the 1950s and updated by renowned architect Bruce Rickard who was engaged by the Fienberg family. The house has been little touched since.
Mother and daughter worked together on the award-winning books and they had sold more than million copies worldwide.
It’s hardly been touched since it last changes hands five decades agon.
One of the home’s three bedrooms.
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The three-bedroom, three-bathroom house sits lightly on its 910 sqm block, is an easy walk down to Sandy Bay and has water views.
Interestingly the internationally acclaimed architect Glenn Murcutt’s family lived next door and young Glenn admired the Fienberg house and sought to work under Peter Swan without success.
It’s just minutes to this.
Tashi authors Anna (left) and Barbara Fienberg at a book launch in 2008.
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However the Murcutt family did regenerate the native forest nearby and a number of the towering angophoras around the Fienberg house were grown from seed collected by the Murcutt children.
According to PropTrack, the median house price in Clontarf, on Sydney’s Northern Beaches is $5.2m. That’s up 5.9 per cent over the past 12 months.
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