Climate change warrior Mike Canon-Brookes has invested hundreds of millions in sea front properties; will raise his family in a sea front property worth in excess of $ 100 Million, wants everyone else to believe that global warming and rising sea level will submerge the east coast
Atlassian’s Australian billionaire co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes is among a group of global business and political leaders set to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.
Hosted by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the major conference on Monday will see leaders from across 60 countries demonstrate “concrete” plans to reduce carbon emissions and help the world’s most vulnerable cope with the fallout from global warming.
Australian Mr Cannon-Brookes said he has headed to New York to attend the UN event “because we have a responsibly to act"
Meanwhile, in the property pages:
The sale of the Point Piper estate, Fairwater, smashed all Australian property records when it sold last year for $100 million. Photo: Mark Merton/Sydneyimages.com
Australia’s most expensive house, Point Piper estate Fairwater, sold to techie Mike Cannon-Brookes
Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and his wife Annie have bought Australia’s most expensive house, Fairwater, ending more than a century of Fairfax family ownership.
“We are delighted with the purchase of Fairwater for our young family and look forward to continuing the legacy of this beautiful Sydney home,” Cannon-Brookes said in an exclusive statement to Domain on Thursday morning.
“We love the idea of raising our four young children in this historic property, filling the house and gardens with love and laughter through the years.
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Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes buys $9.1 million beachside semi in Double Bay
Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has added a $9.1 million beachside semi in Double Bay to his fast-growing portfolio, which now totals more than $45 million worth of homes snapped up in the past six years.
Cannon-Brookes’ interest in real estate lining the Double Bay beachfront has become an open secret since he and his fashion designer wife Annie moved to the neighbourhood a year ago given its easy access to nearby schools for their four children.
The co-founder of software giant Atlassian bought the three-bedroom, three-bathroom house after a recent redesign by TKD Architects on behalf of former owner, London-based philanthropist and fund manager Peter Hall.
Mike Cannon-Brookes has developed a penchant for Double Bay in recent years. Photo: Louie Douvis
The other half of the two-storey semi is set on the beachfront and was sold by Ken Weiss – brother of fashion industry veteran Peter Weiss – for $13.3 million to property investor Martin Border and his wife Rozanne last year.
The purchase takes Cannon-Brookes’ property interests to $45.5 million, headed by the $12 million trophy home Braelin he bought in Centennial Park in 2015.
The semi is set behind its beachfront neighbour, which sold for $13.3 million last year.
Last year the co-founder of software giant Atlassian bought the Mediterranean-style villa known as Sea Dragon for $7.05 million while work was undertaken on the Centennial Park family home.
In March, Cannon-Brookes, 38, reportedly bought the 44-hectare property Rosehill Farm in Kangaloon, at the Southern Highlands, for $5.35 million.
It comes less than 18 months after the couple bought a 390-hectare property at Joadja in the Southern Highlands for $3.3 million.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom semi is expected to be an investment for Cannon-Brookes.
The couple also owns a beachfront house in Palm Beach they bought in 2013 for $8.7 million from luxury car importer Neville Crichton.
For now, Cannon-Brookes’ property interests have proved somewhat humble compared with his Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar, who paid a national house price record of $71 million in April two years ago for the Point Piper beachfront estate Elaine.
The duo have become the darlings of Australia’s tech industry since they founded Atlassian in 2002 using credit card debt of $10,000. The company was floated on the US Nasdaq in 2015 and the founders ranked Australia’s 17th and 18th richest people on last year’s Financial Review Rich List worth $2.51 billion each.
Cannon-Brookes reportedly bought Rosehill Farm in Kangaloon earlier this year. Photo: domain.com
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