Australia’s top agent, Alexander Phillips, sold $1.1 billion of property last year, drives a Porsche, and likes $300 bottles of wine.
There I was, at Justin Hemmes’ Hotel Centennial in Woollahra, talking about Toni Collette’s last property trade over a $290 burgundy with Alexander Phillips, who may be the greatest real estate agent in this property-obsessed city.
Asked to respond to Phillips’ claim to be the city’s top agent, Collier says: “I’m surprised he stopped at Sydney. I thought he has always claimed to be the best agent in the universe.” “Everyone was sitting around with nothing to do,” he says. “Last year, I would not have been sitting here with you. Last year, I didn’t do lunches.”
Good agents become well known in their district. In the eastern suburbs, they’re now appearing on a reality TV show. Property porn, catty competition and personal drama has turned the three leads of Amazon’s, D’Leanne Lewis, Gavin Rubinstein and Simon Cohen, into celebrities far beyond the enclave they work in.
The Phillips family lived on the Woolwich waterfront. His father sold European cars on Parramatta Road, including Jaguars and Aston Martins. Each day, Phillips piloted a small aluminium boat to NSW’s leading Catholic boys’ school, St Ignatius, Riverview. The relativity of their wealth emerged during holidays, when the Phillipses went to the Gold Coast and their neighbours to the US.After finishing year 12, Phillips enrolled in a Macleay College real estate course.
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