Rebel Wilson has made a name for herself as a comedian across the globe and she is now cashing in elsewhere big time. Picture: Instagram
Actor Rebel Wilson, who celebrated her first wedding anniversary to fashion and jewellery designer Ramona Agruma midweek, ️has sold her Balmain investment property.
It sold for an undisclosed price ahead of its scheduled weekend auction through her estate agent younger sister, Anna Wilson.
The price guidance was $2m, which was down on the $2.3m expectations when the top-floor two-bedroom Reynolds St space was initially listed in May last year.
The property was withdrawn from marketing in July last year and then rented at $1200 a week.
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Rebel Wilson has sold her Balmain investment property.
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It was marketed as a house-like apartment by the CobdenHayson estate agent. After stamp duty, marketing, sales commission and conveyancing fees, there will not be much profit, as the Pitch Perfect star paid $1.8m off the plan in 2015 and then gave the 130sq m space a high-end renovation.
The kitchen features Carrara quartz stone, Miele appliances, an induction hob, an integrated Liebherr fridge and a breakfast bar.
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The kitchen features Carrara quartz stone, Miele appliances, an induction hob, an integrated Liebherr fridge and a breakfast bar. Picture: realestate.com.au
Set in the Lever Brothers Sunlight soap factory heritage-conversion project, the apartment features views over the city skyline and Anzac Bridge.
It comes with a Tesla EV charging station in the double garage.
Wilson lived in the apartment while renovating her former three-level Birchgrove waterfront property overlooking the Parramatta River, which was sold in 2022 for $9.5m.
Fetching $500,000 more than its $9m price guidance, Wilson had paid $3.76m for the Louisa Rd property in 2015, followed by a redesign by architect Paul Connor.
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Wilson sold her Birchgrove waterfront home in 2022.
It was snapped up for $9.5m.
Wilson had paid $3.76m for the Louisa Rd property in 2015
She still retains a nearby Birchgrove property after her investment company, Camp Sugar Productions, paid $3.6m in 2022 for the four-bedroom home.
Wilson used the local oval as a setting in her first directorial movie, the musical The Deb, which has yet to have its release.
Her mother, Sue Bownds, who was cast as an extra, also owns at Birchgrove, having paid $1.6m in 2020 after selling at Kellyville for $1,318,000. She lives with her estate agent husband Pete Lock.
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Rebel Wilson and Ramona Agruma celebrated on year of marriage with fireworks at a private event. Picture: Instagram.
Bownds proudly noted on Instagram during The Deb’s 2023 production that the filming had been “all over Sydney including Bondi, Birchgrove, Schofields and Bella Vista”.
Wilson has long had a penchant for property, especially on the Balmain peninsula, with her family also owning there over the decades.
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The apartment features views over the city skyline and Anzac Bridge. Picture: realestate.com.au
The Hollywood actor published insights in her 2024 memoir, Rebel Rising, detailing the circumstances of their departure from Balmain after her premature birth in March 1980.
Her schoolteacher mother and her late father, bank officer Warwick, had bought for $52,000 in 1978 on Montague St, but they sold up for $95,000 in September 1980 after concerns about the walls having peeling paint that contained lead that had poisoned their beagle.
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Rebel Wilson. Picture: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images
It sold for an undisclosed price ahead of its scheduled weekend auction through her estate agent younger sister, Anna Wilson.
The price guidance was $2m, which was down on the $2.3m expectations when the top-floor two-bedroom Reynolds St space was initially listed in May last year.
The property was withdrawn from marketing in July last year and then rented at $1200 a week.
And in October last year, Wilson sold her Los Angeles ‘social media content house’ for $5.6m just weeks after her wedding, after itr sat on the market for four months with original price hopes of $6.2m.
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Rebel Wilson’s ‘social media content’ house. Picture: Realtor
She sold it a year ago. Picture: Realtor
It went for $5.6m. Picture: Realtor
She reportedly decided to sell the property to “streamline” her life, she told the Wall Street Journal.
“It’s such a good house,” said Wilson, who used the home as an office, meeting space, and social media content creation site.
The actor explained that she was planning to downsize to another property, or perhaps even find a more conventional office space.
Despite the reduction, the Pitch Perfect star still a near million-dollar upside on the property, which she picked up in 2016 for around $4.4m (US$2,95m).
All up it brings Wilson’s current financial gains from her properties to more than $20m.
Before that Wilson owned a home in the Hollywood Hills she bought for US$2.2m in 2014.
+ Additional reporting: Brendan Casey
Rebel Wilson bought this home in the Hollywood Hills in 2014 for $US2.2 million
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