Aussie celebrities of all stripes – from sport stars to Hollywood actors – have tried huge strikes within the property market this 12 months, usually with combined outcomes.
Those that walked away with wins from property gross sales included actor Isla Fisher, singer Sophie Monk, former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns and billionaire Atlassian founder Scott Farquhar.
However different celebrities loved their fair proportion of setbacks, with the wealthy and well-known not often being resistant to a basic slowdown in housing market circumstances within the final 4 months.
Celebrities who look prone to end 2024 with out securing consumers for his or her luxurious residence gross sales included actor Russell Crowe and swimming legend Ian Thorpe.
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Others, like actor Insurgent Wilson, pulled the plug on deliberate gross sales, whereas Prime Minister Anthony Albanese needed to slash the worth of a property in Sydney’s interior west and wait three months to get a purchaser.
Notable superstar strikes over the 12 months included:
RUSSELL CROWE
Oscar profitable actor Russell Crowe appears to be like prone to end 2024 nonetheless in search of a purchaser for his luxurious Woolloomooloo residence.
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Crowe set a then condo value report when he purchased the Woolloomooloo unit in 2003.
The actor has alledgedly informed brokers he’ll promote the house if the “value is correct”. Image: Getty Photographs
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It’s understood the 1,000 sqm condo with a marina berth and parking for seven automobiles shouldn’t be publicly listed on the market, however the actor has expressed willingness to let it go if will get $42m-$45m.
Native sources revealed seeing a number of visits to the Finger Wharf residence by luxurious actual property agent Will Manning of McGrath Double Bay.
Manning and enterprise accomplice Luke Hogan had been reported to be dealing with the off market sale however neither would remark.
Crowe snapped up the condo for $14.35m again in 2003 – setting a then report value for a unit sale.
REBEL WILSON
The Pitch Good actor listed a former Balmain residence turned funding property with a $2.3m information however rescheduled the deliberate June public sale to July earlier than pulling the unit from the market.
Hollywood actor Insurgent Wilson pulled the plug on the sale of an funding property in Balmain.
Wilson had lived within the unit whereas she had her former Birchgrove residence renovated. Image: Getty Photographs
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Public sale clearance charges within the space on the time had been under the 50 per cent mark, an indicator of a weakening market, though it isn’t clear how a lot curiosity her prime ground condo attracted.
The house in an condo constructing as soon as used as a cleaning soap manufacturing unit was listed for lease at $1,200 every week a few month after the itemizing was scuppered. Wilson paid $1.88m for the house in 2015.
Wilson stayed within the unit whereas renovating her former residence in Birchgrove which she offered in 2022 for $9.5m.
IAN THORPE
5-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe this 12 months relisted a Woollahra condo he had tried to promote final 12 months. The house had handed in at public sale final 12 months on a vendor bid of $3.95m.
Thorpe had the four-bedroom, three-bathroom residence scheduled for November public sale with a information of $3.5m.
The Woollahra condo is in a boutique block.
The information was later dropped to $3m however the residence didn’t promote and the itemizing was later pulled from the market. Trade sources declare the swimming legend might try and promote the house once more subsequent 12 months. Information indicated he paid $2.75m for the house in 2017.
ANTHONY ALBANESE
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took three months and a value minimize of $150,000 to promote a Dulwich Hill funding property.
The property modified fingers in late November for $1.75m after being listed in September with a information of $1.9m. Albanese purchased the property for $1.175m.
The Prime Minister purchased a Central Coast residence for $350,000 under the 2021 value.
However needed to minimize $150,000 off the worth of an funding property in an effort to promote. Image: Max Mason-Hubers
He concluded the sale shortly after shopping for a luxurious residence in Central Coast suburb Copacabana for $4.3m, a value about $350,000 under the worth the clifftop residence had beforehand offered for in 2021.
It has since been listed for lease for about $1,900 but it surely’s understood the Prime Minister and fiance Jodie Haydon plan to dwell within the property in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
LLEYTON AND BEC HEWITT
Tennis ace Lleyton Hewitt and actress spouse Bec tried to promote their coastal mansion this 12 months but it surely stays up on the market.
Lleyton Hewitt and Bec Hewitt are nonetheless attempting to promote a Gold Coast property.
The Hewitts’ Gold Coast property.
The couple listed their Gold Coast residence for public sale, three years after shopping for it for about $4.3m. The Burleigh Heads property didn’t promote at public sale and stays available on the market.
ISLA FISHER
Now You See Me star Isla Fisher, who introduced her separation from comic Sacha Baron Cohen earlier this 12 months, pocketed $930,000 from the sale of her condo in Woollahra.
Isla Fisher offered up a unit she purchased within the Nineteen Nineties.
She had purchased the Woollahra unit for $171,500. Image: Max Mason-Hubers
She had bought the two-bedroom unit for $171,500 in 1995 when she was simply 19, having just lately landed the position of Shannon Reed on soapie House and Away.
The Thirties condo had been listed with a $1m information, however pulled from its September public sale. Fisher had rented the condo out in recent times. It offered in November to an area solicitor.
DANIEL JOHNS
Silverchair guitarist Daniel Johns offered a four-bedroom home he purchased whereas nonetheless a youngster.
Daniel Johns performing in 2015. Image: Getty Photographs
Johns purchased the property quickly after the discharge of Silverchair’s debut album.
Johns had snapped up the home close to Merewether Seaside in Newcastle for $360,000 in 1996 – a few 12 months after the discharge of the band’s debut album Frogstomp.
The house resold in July for $2.75m after initially being scheduled for public sale with a $2.9m information. Johns had rented the house out to tenants.
LIAM HEMSWORTH
Starvation Video games star Liam Hemsworth lodged a improvement utility to construct a brand new two-storey pavilion-style residence on the 37 hectare Byron hinterland property he purchased in 2021 for $6.8m.
The estimated constructing prices lodged to council had been $14.6m. The plan is for open plan residing areas to encompass an inner courtyard, a cabana and a terrace resulting in a circa 18m pool.
Liam Hemsworth submitted plans for a brand new home construct. Image: Getty Photographs
The construct for the five-bedroom home will see Hemsworth observe within the footsteps of older brother Chris, who constructed a multimillion-dollar compound within the close by Damaged Head space just a few years in the past.
JENNIFER HAWKINS
Mannequin Jennifer Hawkins offered a Lake Macquarie funding, one of many final properties in her as soon as intensive funding portfolio.
Hawkins offered the Minmi residence off the again of earlier gross sales in Sydney’s northern seashores.
Jennifer Hawkins in 2017. Image: Scott Barbour/Getty Photographs
Hawkins offloaded the 664sqm Minmi property for $840,000, according to the worth information.
Hawkins paid $345,000 for the three-bedroom, single degree home in 2008, a 12 months after she signed her reputed $4m take care of Myer.
The deal was the most recent amongst a latest spate of gross sales from the highest mannequin. She had in earlier years offered properties in Curl Curl, Whale Seaside, Newport and Newcastle suburb Merewether.
RAY HADLEY
Retiring 2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley offered a Gold Coast bolthole for $2.05m forward of asserting this 12 months can be his final as a radio host.
He had purchased the house with a pool, spa, sauna, gymnasium and tennis court docket for simply over $1.22m in 2017.
The Gold Coast residence has water views.
The talkback host had made some key strikes within the property market over latest years. Final 12 months he and spouse Sophie snapped up a Central Coast weekender for an undisclosed sum.
He offered his long-time Dural residence in 2021 for $7.6m, a value roughly $5m greater than what he paid within the Nineteen Nineties.
SOPHIE MONK
Aussie TV presenter Sophie Monk offered a riverfront funding property positioned within the Gold Coast suburb the place she attended main college.
Sophie Monk offered an funding property. Image: Adam Head
Monk’s former Waterfront property.
The deal got here a month after the Love Island Australia host listed the five-bedroom, three-bathroom Helensvale residence.
Property data present the 4,018 sqm parcel within the tightly held Riverdowns Property modified fingers for $1.76m.
SCOTT FARQUHAR
Billionaire Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar offered a Double Bay mansion referred to as Elaine for $130m. Farquhar had bought the house for $71m in 2017.
Farquhar’s $130m sale was the best value paid for an Aussie home this 12 months. Image: Damian Shaw
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