[4] William C. Greville bought 8 hectares (20 acres), which included the whole bay frontage, for 40 pounds in 1834.

Samuel Bennett, who owned Australian Town and Country Journal, one of the most influential newspapers of the day, bought the property and made further grand additions.

[citation needed] The Mundarrah Towers estate occupied the land around Burnie Street overlooking the western end of Clovelly Bay.

Between Coogee and Clovelly, on the shores of Gordon's Bay, stood Cliffbrook, the home built for John Thompson.

By the early twentieth century the first governor of the Commonwealth Bank owned this grand mansion which was substantially demolished in 1976.

[citation needed] Some of the buildings of the Cliffbrook estate survive today at the corner of Beach and Battery streets.

The largest is at the corner of Fern St and Clovelly where there are (amongst other businesses) a post office, community bank, chemist, newsagent and bottle shop.

There is one beachside hotel, the Clovelly Hotel, built on some of the land once occupied by the Mundarrah Towers estate and the Clovelly Bowling Club, with coastal views and located on leased public land bordering the Waverley Cemetery.