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Windsor Castle Hotel owners who sold for $27m buy $14m artist pad

A couple who sold a former popular pub for a suburb record-breaking price have bought a well-known artist’s long-time home for $14m. Former Goldman Sachs exec David Nolan and his wife, Anita, sold the ex Windsor Castle Hotel at 72 Windsor St, Paddington, now a luxury five-bedroom residence, for $26.85m last month via McGrath agents Luke Hogan and William Manning last month. The result smashed the Paddington record by nearly $7m. Now it’s emerged that the Nolans have bought the longtime home of the respected artist Mary Shakman at 96-104 Glenmore Rd, Paddington, for $14m. Buyers of $85m Boomerang list $75m Akuna Described as a five-bedroom historic 1835 gem with original features and copper roof, the property sold last Wednesday via Clint Ballard of Sotheby’s in conjunction with Alan Fettes and Ashley Bierman of Ray White Double Bay. Records show that Shakman, once a textile designer with clients that included Carla Zampatti and Sportsgirl who became and award-winning painter, had bought the historic 1835 gem for $550k in 1992. The Nolans are no doubt intending to renovate. Their former Windsor St home had already been converted from the 1880s pub into a residence by Sydney studio X.PACE four years before their 2016 purchase for $11.85m, which had matched the suburb’s previous housing record. But they did make further improvements. The Glenmore Rd residence, built over three levels with an attic, four bathrooms and a three-car garage, is described as being “one of the original orchard houses”. It also features a separate, street-facing building “for retail ventures”. The property had also been on the market in January but it failed to sell. Ian Thorpe lists Woollahra apartment