Aussie celebrities of all stripes – from sport stars to Hollywood actors – have tried huge strikes within the property market this yr, usually with blended 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 justifiable share of setbacks, with the wealthy and well-known hardly ever being resistant to a normal slowdown in housing market situations within the final 4 months.
Celebrities who look prone to end 2024 with out securing consumers for his or her dwelling 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 value of a property in Sydney’s interior west and wait three months to get a purchaser.
Notable celeb strikes over the yr included:
RUSSELL CROWE
Oscar profitable actor Russell Crowe seems to be prone to end 2024 nonetheless searching for a purchaser for his luxurious Woolloomooloo dwelling.
Crowe set a then condominium value file when he purchased the Woolloomooloo unit in 2003.
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The actor has alledgedly informed brokers he’ll promote the house if the “value is true”. Image: Getty Photographs
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It’s understood the 1,000 sqm condominium 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 dwelling by luxurious actual property agent Will Manning of McGrath Double Bay.
Manning and enterprise companion Luke Hogan have been reported to be dealing with the off market sale however neither would remark.
Crowe snapped up the condominium for $14.35m again in 2003 – setting a then file 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 dwelling renovated. Image: Getty Photographs
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Public sale clearance charges within the space on the time have been beneath the 50 per cent mark, an indicator of a weakening market, though it isn’t clear how a lot curiosity her prime ground condominium attracted.
The house in an condominium constructing as soon as used as a cleaning soap manufacturing unit was listed for hire at $1,200 per week a couple of month after the itemizing was scuppered. Wilson paid $1.88m for the house in 2015.
Wilson stayed within the unit whereas renovating her former dwelling in Birchgrove which she bought in 2022 for $9.5m.
IAN THORPE
5-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe this yr relisted a Woollahra condominium he had tried to promote final yr. The house had handed in at public sale final yr on a vendor bid of $3.95m.
Thorpe had the four-bedroom, three-bathroom dwelling scheduled for November public sale with a information of $3.5m.
The Woollahra condominium is in a boutique block.
The information was later dropped to $3m however the dwelling didn’t promote and the itemizing was later pulled from the market. Trade sources declare the swimming legend could try to promote the house once more subsequent yr. Data indicated he paid $2.75m for the house in 2017.
ANTHONY ALBANESE
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took three months and a value reduce of $150,000 to promote a Dulwich Hill funding property.
The property modified arms 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 dwelling for $350,000 beneath the 2021 value.
However needed to reduce $150,000 off the value of an funding property in an effort to promote. Image: Max Mason-Hubers
He concluded the sale shortly after shopping for a luxurious dwelling in Central Coast suburb Copacabana for $4.3m, a value about $350,000 beneath the value the clifftop dwelling had beforehand bought for in 2021.
It has since been listed for hire for about $1,900 nevertheless it’s understood the Prime Minister and fiance Jodie Haydon plan to reside within the property sooner or later sooner or later.
LLEYTON AND BEC HEWITT
Tennis ace Lleyton Hewitt and actress spouse Bec tried to promote their coastal mansion this yr nevertheless it stays up on the market.
Lleyton Hewitt and Bec Hewitt are nonetheless making an attempt to promote a Gold Coast property.
The Hewitts’ Gold Coast property.
The couple listed their Gold Coast dwelling 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 yr, pocketed $930,000 from the sale of her condominium in Woollahra.
Isla Fisher bought 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 function of Shannon Reed on soapie Residence and Away.
The Nineteen Thirties condominium had been listed with a $1m information, however pulled from its September public sale. Fisher had rented the condominium out lately. It bought in November to an area solicitor.
DANIEL JOHNS
Silverchair guitarist Daniel Johns bought 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 Seashore in Newcastle for $360,000 in 1996 – a couple of yr 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 have been $14.6m. The plan is for open plan residing areas to encompass an inside 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 bought a Lake Macquarie funding, one of many final houses in her as soon as intensive funding portfolio.
Hawkins bought the Minmi dwelling 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 value information.
Hawkins paid $345,000 for the three-bedroom, single degree home in 2008, a yr after she signed her reputed $4m take care of Myer.
The deal was the most recent amongst a current spate of gross sales from the highest mannequin. She had in earlier years bought properties in Curl Curl, Whale Seashore, Newport and Newcastle suburb Merewether.
RAY HADLEY
Retiring 2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley bought a Gold Coast bolthole for $2.05m forward of saying this yr could be his final as a radio host.
He had purchased the house with a pool, spa, sauna, health club and tennis courtroom for simply over $1.22m in 2017.
The Gold Coast dwelling has water views.
The talkback host had made some key strikes within the property market over current years. Final yr he and spouse Sophie snapped up a Central Coast weekender for an undisclosed sum.
He bought his long-time Dural dwelling in 2021 for $7.6m, a value roughly $5m increased than what he paid within the Nineteen Nineties.
SOPHIE MONK
Aussie TV presenter Sophie Monk bought a riverfront funding property situated within the Gold Coast suburb the place she attended major faculty.
Sophie Monk bought 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 dwelling.
Property data present the 4,018 sqm parcel within the tightly held Riverdowns Property modified arms for $1.76m.
SCOTT FARQUHAR
Billionaire Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar bought a Double Bay mansion often called 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 yr. Image: Damian Shaw
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