The Hemsworths have been drawn into the marketing hype for a neighbour’s listing because their animals are escape artists. Picture: Instagram.
The Hemsworth clan have been drawn into the marketing hype surrounding the listing of the Byron district’s priciest retreat, Ohana.
Not because Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky will necessarily be interested in buying the Broken Head offering, but it seems there is a cosy barnyard friendship shared between the neighbouring families.
If you’re neighbours with Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky, vendors have said, “sometimes their donkeys get loose.” Source: Instagram
“Sometimes their donkeys get loose,” advised the Ohana vendor Russell Staley.
“And sometimes their puppies come down and say hello,” he added.
The nine-hectare Staley offering sits between the Hemsworth’s compound and Seven Mile Beach.
The property features a Virginia Kerridge-designed series of lowset, interconnected pavilions constructed by Bellevarde for the former chairman of deep-water oil-drilling business Benthic Geotech and his wife Jennifer.
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Ohana House, on Seven Mile Beach at Byron Bay. The property adjoins the Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky family estate.
The property can sleep 28 people.
Nestled behind bush and dunes, the pavilions were apparently inspired by the Palm Springs Kaufmann Desert House designed by architect Richard Neutra in 1946.
The grounds comes a resort-style pool, tennis court, basketball court and skateboard half-pipe.
The Collaroy Beach-based couple are off to Jindabyne having commissioned Peter Stutchbury to design their next weekender.
Ohana is expected to set a new Byron region record.
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Ohana is expected to set a new Byron region record which is currently held by the $33.65m paid for Emma and Tom Lane’s The Range acreage in Coopers Shoot last year by a trust associated with tech entrepreneur Ben Bray. The Lanes have also recently listed another luxury ranch, Bangalow’s Copperstone, with a $37m guide.
The grounds comes a resort-style pool, tennis court, basketball court and skateboard half-pipe.
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Casbar, the $26m Suffolk Park acreage record set in 2022 by Clare Mulham of the billionaire Nutrimetics Roche family has recently returned to the market with undisclosed expectations.
Ohana, a former banana plantation last traded in 2011 at $6.3m when bought from Melbourne’s Smorgon family who’d paid $5.02m in 2005. It had traded in 1983 when bought by actor Paul Hogan and his long-time colleagues, John Cornell and Allan Johnston for $265,000.
The Hemsworths set a Broken Head record paying $7m in 2014 for a 4.2-hectare holding on the shared dirt road that leads to both properties.
The nine-hectare Staley offering sits between the Hemsworth’s compound and Seven Mile Beach.
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