Celebrity landscaper Jamie Durie’s Avalon Beach trophy home listing now has Ray White as a conjunctional selling agency, having been originally listed with $33m hopes last June through the McGrath Pittwater office.
The revised $27m to $29m guidance issued for its intended March McGrath auction remains intact, with the out-of-area agent Adam Reichman from Ray White Double Bay advising a $28m expressions of interest guide.
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Jamie Durie.
“With no direct comparables as such, our assessment has come from the replacement cost, land value, uniqueness of the architecture, quality of the build and of course its eco design,” Reichman has told fresh prospective buyers.
However, he did reference the still-to-settle $27m sale of the nearby 4300sq m Kanangra estate last December.
Durie’s incredible Avalon Beach home.
Durie and his fiancee, singer-songwriter Ameka Jane, are quitting the six-bedroom, six-bathroom house for the Byron Bay hinterland, a 28ha farm, with their two young children.
With Site Design + Studios plans, they secured planning permission last year for their intended $2.7m off-grid home.
The Nashua property cost $3,625,000 in early 2023.
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Jamie Durie’s planned Nashua farm house.
The ‘hobby farm’.
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Facing west over Pittwater, Belah House was designed by architecture firm Silvester Fuller.
Dubbed by Durie as the “hanging gardens of Avalon”, it is a nine-level home with Railius inclinator from street to shore.
He acquired the 1010sq m Riverview Rd waterfront site for $2,275,000 in 2015 and replaced the humble 1960s cottage after facing strong neighbourhood opposition.
The view from the pool deck of the Avalon Beach home.
Inside the home.
Durie said he had been offered $30m
The price guide is now $27m to $29m
Durie told Sydney Confidential last June that he had been offered more than $30m for the Avalon property, despite at the time not actively seeking a buyer.
“We received an unexpected offer in the mid-$30m range and are now warming to the idea of spending some time on our hobby farm with the kids while they are young,” he said.
Jamie Durie and Ameka Jane. Picture: Supplied
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