2 Etham Ave, Darling Point has sold. The most recent guide was $14m-$14.8m.

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Billionaire chicken heiress Sue Ingham has sold her “private sanctuary” in Darling Point after dropping the price guide by $4m.

The sold sticker went up on the five-bedroom home at 2 Etham Ave this morning — it had most recently been listed with a $14m-$14.8m guide via Highland Double Bay Malouf director David Malouf and colleague Harry Schier.

There’d been $18m hopes with other agents when first listed in May.

Malouf wouldn’t be drawn on the sale price this morning, citing a non-disclosure agreement. But other sources speculated it must have been close to the most recent guide.

It had been $16m in August.

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Sue Ingham loves colour, and her reno reflects this.

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It was “love at first” when Ingham saw it 15 years ago with daughter Jess.

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The realestate.com.au listing said of the glamorous residence: “Positioned at the very tip of the Darling Point peninsular, this awe-inspiring manor has been conceived as a private sanctuary in one of Sydney’s most tightly held pockets of real estate.”

It faces north and has views over the harbour to Manly and The Heads from the upper level.

For a Wentworth Courier feature in May, Ingham, daughter of the late chicken farming magnate Jack Ingham, told Kirsten Craze it had been love at first sight when house hunting with her daughter, Jess, 15 years ago.

“We pulled up out the front and saw the lovely gate house,” Ingham said.

She’d bought it for $7.8m in 2009.

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The are five bedrooms in total.

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Chicken billionaires Bob and Jack Ingham with former PM Bob Hawke in 1989.

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“My daughter looked at me, and I looked at her and I said ‘This is my house’.

“It was love at first sight — there was such a good feeling and we hadn’t even walked inside.”

Records show she bought the property for $7.8m in 2009.

Since then, Ingham collaborated with Bourkeshire Interiors to put her personal touches on the five-bedroom three-level period home in one of the Darling Point’s most coveted streets.

“I didn’t feel anything on the outside needed changing, but I’ve done some cosmetic changes inside,” she said.

“I just love colour and I really love my house, so does my daughter, my grandchildren and my dogs.

“The only reason I’m selling is because I’m downsizing.”