Kidman wants $20m for Darling Point

Actor Nicole Kidman has listed her Darling Point villa with hopes of $20 million as she seeks another Sydney home with more grass for her baby to play on.

With the baby due in July, Kidman and her husband, Keith Urban, have decided to depart the house, which has no lawn and limited hedged gardens.

Buyers have recently inspected the hillside property - with 1068sqm of space spread over three levels - that has been her Australian abode since 1995.

The Nashville-based couple want to buy again in the eastern suburbs, but have not ruled out being closer to her parents at Longueville, possibly on the Hunters Hill peninsula where actor Cate Blanchett has her $10 million riverfront.

Her house is listed through Sotheby's International in conjunction with Janne Sutcliffe's Change of Address agency. She will be joining actors Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman in fossicking amid the limited supply of luxury homes.

She has also listed her beachfront retreat on the NSW far South Coast, which was consolidated at a $4 million cost. Rosedale residents suggest Kidman has been there less than a handful of times since she bought the first of three adjoining properties in 2004.

Kidman and her then husband, Tom Cruise, spent $4.2 million in 1995 to buy half of the Darling Point villa, five years after they met on the set of Days Of Thunder. The Garry Rothwell-designed house, which she inspected on a break during the Batman Forever movie shoot, remains registered in the name of an overseas company, N.T.Inc.

In 1998, about two years before Kidman and Cruise separated, N.T.Inc added the $4.75 million other half of the duplex, making eight bedrooms.

Kidman had made only one earlier Sydney property purchase, an $81,000 Military Road, Mosman unit that was given to her younger sister, Antonia.

In December Kidman sold a Walsh Bay penthouse, which cost $4 million in 2006, for $4.65 million. The couple have bought homes for $US7 million ($7.4 million) in Los Angeles and $US3.7 million in Nashville and a $US2.4 million ranch.

Her net worth in the BRW Rich List this week is $289 million. It was $237 million last year.

(taken from: here)