The South Yarra trophy home offering of celebrity chef Shannon Bennett and his actor wife Madeleine West fetched $9.78 million when it sold late last year at private auction.
They listed Barwon, an updated 1880s Cromwell Road home, last November having spent around $16 million on a Toorak mansion, a four level Lansell Road home sold by the Melbourne pub owner Mazen Tabet.
The couple bought the South Yarra home for $4,805,000 in 2012, when upgrading from Kensington.
There were $7 million to $7.7 million price indications for the home through Kay And Burton agent Ross Savas.
The five bedroom home had a Jackson Clement Burrows' renovation and extension by the prior owner.
It sold to the Crowe family of Armadale who will be upsizing from a four bedroom timber cottage.
This article was first published in The Weekend Australian.