Lara Goodridge is well known as an acclaimed singer and violinist, but her property savvy has gone unremarked, until now.
Thanks to the sale of her Victorian terrace, Goodridge can now add to her list of accomplishments the sale of Newtown's most expensive house.
A bullish $3.8 million was paid for the house on popular Watkin Street, with records showing the result set a record for the hipster heartland.
The suburb's previous record was held, only briefly, by a Victorian terrace overlooking nearby Hollis Park at $3.76 million set last August.
Newtown's median property values have risen 2.1 per cent this year, on the back of last year's rise of 7.3 per cent, taking the suburb median to a high of $1,347,500, according to Domain Group data.
Goodridge's three-bedroom house was listed in April with a $3 million guide through Ray White Surry Hills' Ercan Ersan, but sold before its scheduled May auction. Ersan declined to comment on either the buyer or the vendor.
???Thanks to strong competition, the result more than doubled the $1,783,000 Goodridge paid for it in 2009, when it was sold by lawyer David Blackburn and his wife Gillian.
The house was already renovated when it sold, but has scored a new terrace and swimming pool since then, according to council records.
Goodridge is best known as half of the chanteuse duo Baby et Lulu with Abby Dobson, and is a member of the indie rock band FourPlay String Quartet alongside Shenzo Gregorio and brothers Tim and Peter Hollo.
Records show Goodridge hasn't gone far, having already traded over to a converted warehouse at the other end of the suburb for $1.25 million in 2013.
The garden on Watkin Street Photo: Supplied.
