'Offered for sale an opera house designer's dream on realestate.com.au'

Architect Jorn Utzon, creator of the Sydney Opera House, dreamed of building his home on the coast. He bought a plot of land in Bayview in 1962 for 4,145 pounds, with the intention of building a pavilion-style family estate. However, the local authorities rejected his proposals. At the time Utzon and his wife Lees and three children lived in a rented house in Alexandra Cres Street overlooking Lyon Island.

After Utzon left the Opera House Project in 1966 over a disagreement with the state government over cost overruns, he closed his studio in a boat shed on Palm Beach and did not return to Australia for a long time until his death in 2008.

Instead of''Jorn Utzon's envisioned home on a plot of land in Bayview has been built into an impressive residence called Villa Cara, which is for sale for the first time in nearly four decades. Marble from Italy, roof tiles from France, as well as English oak joinery and local sandstone were used to build the home.

The Cara Villa, located in Bayview, has four bedrooms and was last sold in 1986 for $625,000. McGrath Estate Agents representative James Baker is in charge of the sale of this home. The description of the residence reads, 'This is a gorgeous sun-washed residence that could easily be found on the Amalfi Coast and is a great vacation spot in any respect.''The understated luxury of the design harmonizes with the truly world-class surroundings'.

According to PropTrack data, the median price of homes in Bayview, New South Wales, is $3.215 million, up 2.9 percent over the past year.