HOME BUYER TO THE STARS
BY BRONWEN GORA
The Sunday Telegraph, 23 August 2009
Janne Sutcliffe may not be a celebrity but she definitely knows how to live like a star.
That's because the Sydney buyer's agent has bought homes for Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward. Toni Collette, actor brothers Joel and Nash Edgerton, and Baz Luhrmann, among others.
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness paid Ms Sutcliffe to show them around eastern suburbs mansions when they were house hunting. Collette Dinnigan asked her to oversee her Paddington renovation and author Kathy Lette has her buy an apartment sight unseen.
'They trust me,' Ms Sutcliffe said. 'I take a specific brief and work with the purchaser.' And as a result Ms Sutcliffe knows exactly what the stars want, even if they don't.
'[Furness] fell in love with Tahiti [a harbourside Vaucluse mansion that last sold for $29.5m in 2007],' Ms Sutcliffe said. 'That was her dream house, the way it went down to the water.'