Entertainment superstars Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have been spotted everywhere at the 2024 Olympics and it might have been their savvy real estate investments that have helped they to afford the best seats at numerous events in Paris.
Over the past decade Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have spent over $25 million on property. The power couple, who are worth a staggering $282 million, have been married since 2006 and in that time have acquired an extensive global property portfolio.
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Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban and children are seen during the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Team Final on day four of the Olympic Games in Paris. Picture: Getty
From the rolling hills of the Australian countryside to the glitz and glam of the United States, the Oscar winning actress and Grammy award-winning musician have been buying expensive homes across the two countries they consider home.
Here are the properties that we know about:
Australian Properties
Milsons Point
Despite being based in the United States country music capital Nashville, Kidman and her husband Keith Urban now claim half a dozen apartments in Harbourside Milsons Point, taking her tally in the one building to more than $27.5 million.
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Mirvac’s Latitude by Leighton apartment complex. Pictures; Joel Barbita, D-Max Photography.
Earlier this year, the superstar couple purchased a three-bedroom spread on level 15 of the landmark Latitude building in Sydney’s north side for $7.725 million.
The Kurbans first bought into Latitude in 2009 picking up a penthouse for $6m.
Mirvac’s Latitude by Leighton apartment complex. Pictures; Joel Barbita, D-Max Photography.
They then continued their spree paying $2.68m for a unit lower down the block. Three more apartments followed, for $7m, $2.78m and last year they paid $1.35m for a one-bedder on level four, believed to be used as a private gym.
The building has sweeping views over the western side of the harbour and is one of the most sought after properties in the postcode — so it’s no surprise Australia’s most famous Hollywood couple snapped it up. Image credit: RealEstate.com.au
The block started life as a commercial building in the 1970s but was repurposed in 2005 by Mirvac to accommodate 120 residential apartments. The block also has a swimming pool, spa, sauna, and gym for residents to use. Clark Park and Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden is next door.
There are no other units to buy in Latitude currently, but you can rent a one-bedroom unit on the fourth floor for $750 a week through Di Jones Lower North Shore.
Nicole Kidman watching the women’s skateboarding at the Paris Olympics. Picture: Instagram
Southern Highlands
Although Kidman was born in the US and Urban hails from New Zealand, both stars call Australia home and return regularly, staying at their country homestead an hour and a half from Sydney.
Bunya Hill at Suttons Forest. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s residence in the Southern Highlands two hours south of Sydney. Picture: Guy Finlay.
Bunya Hill estate in the Southern Highlands’ sleepy hollow of Sutton Forest cost the pair $6.5 million in 2008, the same year the epic Baz Luhrmann film Australia was released with Kidman in one of the lead roles.
Their 45ha black Angus cattle stud was once home to Lord Augustus Loftus, governor of NSW from 1879 to 1885, but the ‘Kurbans’ purchased the home from Peter Coad, head of global markets at NAB.
Nicole Kidman answers questions for Vogue at her southern highlands home, Australia.
In addition to plenty of bovines (and alpacas), the property has a 1878 Georgian mansion on site with traditional wide sandstone verandas, pressed metal ceilings, a grand carved cedar staircase and 10 original marble fireplaces.
There is also a stand alone guest cottage on site.
Shortly after acquiring the sprawling estate, Kidman and Urban put in an 18m swimming pool, new gym, full sized tennis court and 250m grass mounds around the perimeter to block out the pesky paparazzi.
With views of green rolling hills, manicured lawns and gardens it’s not hard to see why the grand mansion made the NSW top homes of 2023 list.
Darling Point
During her marriage to Tom Cruise, Kidman owned a three-storey, eight-bedroom Darling Point home on a sizeable 1068sq m Harbourside plot.
Nicole Kidman’s mansion in Darling Point, which she sold in 2009.
She sold the Yarranabba Rd home in 2009 for “about” $13.2 million after listing originally in 2008 for $20 million.
Cruise and Kidman had paid $4.2 million in 1995 for one half of the villa, then three years later they spent another $4.75 million to own the whole property.
Rosedale
It had seemed like a good idea at the time, but Kidman’s dream beach house on the NSW South Coast never materialised.
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The private property in Rosedale that Kidman sold in 2013.
She had envisaged building a $2.5 million compound on a coastal pile, but was turned off by the lack of privacy.
In 2009 she reportedly called the local police requesting an escort after claiming harassment from the paparazzi while driving to the Rosedale property.
Land measuring more than 1000sq m with 21m of waterfront south of Batemans Bay had been acquired for a total of $4 million in 2004.
She sold for a loss after offloading two lots for $3 million in 2011 and the last was parcel settled in 2013 for just $665,000 despite originally being listed in 2008 for $1.2 million.
US properties
Nashville
“I was like, oh … I so hope he asks me to marry him so I can live here!”
Known as the Queen of Northumberland, the 20-room Nashville mansion is on a 1115sq m estate and cost the couple $US3.47 million ($AUD4.89 million). The property includes a family home with seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a tennis court, swimming pool, home theatre and a “hobby room”.
Los Angeles
It makes sense that the couple have a home in Los Angeles.
The backyard of Kidman and Urban’s LA home. Picture: HookedOnHomes
They bought their contemporary Beverly Hills house in 2008 for almost $US4.8 million ($AUD6.77 million) according to local reports.
Modern with exposed concrete walls, the Californian home is on 644sq m and has five bedrooms and five bathrooms.
Inside Kidman and Urban’s LA home. Picture: HookedOnHomes
Records show that the stars in the neighbourhood include Adele, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, Jennifer Lawrence, Katy Perry and Cameron Diaz.
New York
Kidman and Urban bought a designer duplex in the cool hood of Chelsea in 2010 for more than $US9.6 million ($AUD$13.53 million).
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Kidman and Urban bought a designer duplex in the cool hood of Chelsea in 2010 for more than $US9.6 million ($AUD$13.53 million).
Purchased off the plan, the townhouse is in the highly talked about stainless steel tower at 200 Eleventh Ave building, famous for its “ensuite sky garage” and celebrity residents such as Robert J Hurst the former chief of Goldman Sachs who paid $US14 million ($AUD$19.74 million) on the penthouse.
Inside one of the duplex apartments in the Eleventh Ave building in Chelsea.
Unfortunately the building was also in the news as it was the address where Mick Jagger’s fashion designer girlfriend L’Wren Scott was found dead in 2014.
As well as a car elevator to allow for ultimate privacy, the couple’s Manhattan home has Hudson River views, three bedrooms, two terraces and a double height great room.
Tennessee
After more than two years on the market, Kidman and Urban sold a 473sq m four-bedroom rustic barn style house on 14ha, just minutes from their main Nashville spread.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban sold their Tennessee home in 2018.
The charming country spread had been used by Urban as an elaborate manacle and a place to write music away from home.
Inside the Tennessee home.
They pocketed $US3.8 million ($AUD 5.36 million) in 2018, despite listing it a year earlier for $US4.8 million ($AUD 6.77 million).
The property had been bought in two separate 2007 transactions totalling $2.45 million ($AUD3.45 million).
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