Bond, who died on Friday aged 77, owned some of the showiest trophy homes in the West.

He rode the 1970s Poseidon nickel boom and funnelled the cash into property, making risky manoeuvres.

Alan Bond's former home 89 Watkins, Dalkeith sold for $39 million in 2011.

Luxury addresses connected to Bond, from London to his home town of Perth, were frequently entangled in probes and investigations related to his complicated and colourful business transactions.

Bond once owned a Dalkeith bolthole, which was so lavish that it sold in 2011 for $39 million, the second highest price paid for a property in Western Australia.

Alan Bond with his first wife, Eileen, at their daughter's wedding in 1993.

He is understood to have offered the mansion on Watkins Road overlooking the Swan River for a singles party in the 1990s, following his split from his wife, Eileen "Red" Bond.

In WA, it's topped only by the Mosman Park goliath bought for $57 million by mining magnate Chris Ellison in 2009.

Sold: this Mosman Park home set the record for Australia's highest price sale ever. 

Ellison set an Australian price record with that eye-watering sum - his chequebook would have had barely enough room for all the zeros.

But for all the razzle-dazzle and excess linked to his former Dalkeith home, Bond's other famous property -  a mansion in Cottesloe - has a haunting past.

Alan Bond and Diana Bliss at their wedding in 1995.

Bond's wife Diana Bliss, a theatre producer, was found dead in the swimming pool of the Cottesloe house in January 2012, following treatment for depression.