Media power couple: Spotify boss selling stylish $5m inner west house
Built in circa 1910, Kaleena has been beautifully updated, while retaining its original craftsmanship and ornate features.
Set on 1286 square metres, the five-bedroom, two-bathroom home has multiple outdoor entertaining zones, pool and poolside terrace, gym, studio and basketball court.
It is selling through Chris Nunn of BresicWhitney, who declined to comment. The home is scheduled to go under the hammer on 13 September.
The media power couple, who met in the Daily Mail Australia chapter of their careers, only purchased the grand inner-west Federation bungalow for $4.75 million in 2021.
Lancaster was general manager of Daily Mail and Britt was Channel Nine's head of digital division (then known as Mi9) when the two media organisations entered a joint venture in 2014. That corporate partnership broke up two years later, but not the lovebirds. Nine is the owner of this masthead.
They've moved onto bigger and better things, professionally and in the property world. Lancaster has since become Spotify Australia's managing director, while Britt went on to head up streaming service iflix. Former media executive Britt has since co-founded AI-driven preventative health platform TMRW.
In that time, the couple bought and sold their Clareville home on the northern beaches, almost doubling their money in about five years. After that $10.25 million sale, they took the keys to their $9.5 million holiday home in Byron Bay. The 10-hectare getaway in Federal, known as Amileka, starred as the backdrop to last year's reality TV show Love Island Australia.
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