Jennifer Hawkins and Jake Walls’ Whale Beach estate is nearing completion, already sold to a buyer

The stunning Whale Beach mansion built by former queen Jennifer Hawkins and her architect husband, Jake Wall, is nearing completion, nearly five years in the making.

Locals think it’s the most expensive building ever on Sydney’s northern beaches, calling it the ‘Taj Mahal of Whale Beach’.

One agent estimates it will have a final price of $45m.

Given the impressive construction work the celebrity couple is known for, the luxury residence has been sold to a mystery buyer.

Hawkins was the last Australian to win the Miss Universe title back in 2004. Photo: Jake Nowakowski

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It’s four levels, like the other neighbors in the Rayner Rd dress circle, but oh-so-wider than 50 meters given the double block.

On a clear day new residents will be able to see the Central Coast and its growing One Nation devotees.

Hawkins is from the north, in Newcastle, and his first smart property purchase was in Merewether on the coast for $469,000 in 2006.

It came two years after she was given her Miss Universe title by pageant owner Donald Trump in 2004, the last Australian to win the title.

The luxury couple, who have now only posted to their 836,000 Instagram followers, are booking a property in Erina on the central coast worth $3.7m in 2022.

At the time, the couple had advised agents to look for a home on the Central Coast that would put daughter, Frankie, and son, Hendrix, near their grandparents based in the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie region.

The Whale Beach project is the crowning glory of their architectural endeavors, a modern home, under its roof with stone panels and solar panels.

Jennifer Hawkins and Jake Wall have two children, Frankie and Hendrix.

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It comes with five bedrooms, a gym, a yoga room, a sauna, a theater, a bowling alley, a home office, a mud room, a wine room, an indoor elevator and a five-car covered garage. Its facilities come with an outdoor bar, infinity pool, and spa and a sunken shell-shaped lounge.

There will be half a basketball court.

The couple bought the 3073sq m property and demolished what had long been known as Rocca Bella, a four-bedroom, 1950s-style residence with a tennis court that was home to opera legend Dame Joan Sutherland for nearly four decades.

A portion of the Whale Beach property that the couple acquired in 2020. Photo: David Swift

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Wall and Hawkins paid $6.95m in July 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning to upset the property market.

The couple bought the property from Museum of Contemporary Art chairman Lorraine Tarabay for $6.9m in 2015, five years after the death of the soprano, La Stupenda who called Montreux, Switzerland, home.

The world’s twice-blocked value is given as $9.64m as of July 2022 and currently sits at $11.9m.

The initial 2020 development application cost just $3m, with approval due in 2021. This project, along with the next one, was done by Wall’s luxury design and construction firm, J Group Projects.

The couple originally intended to live in the property only then, but a pre-Christmas 2021 warning in the title revealed the home was being sold with a put and call option to a mystery buyer, named for $30m.

The buyer is now one of two registered financiers for the project.

Their previous most profitable flip came in 2020 when Atlassian founder Mike Cannon-Brookes bought Newport’s new-build Casa Paloma, for $24.5m, a record for the northern beaches at the time.

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