Belle

Marine themed

Dress circle views of Sydney Harbour. A national park next door. The meditative sounds of a nearby beach rippling in with the tide. When it comes to locations of this sort you’d expect a “love at first sight” story, but love was the last thing on Dominique Hird’s mind the day she inspected this three-level eastern suburbs residence. “There was absolutely no way,” she recalls telling her accountant on the drive over, “that she would move to Watsons Bay.”

Dominique, husband Justin and their children, Layton and Halley, were living in Mosman with their

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