Rob Gray of celebrity developer, Graya, has sold his epic Gold Coast mansion for a Burleigh Heads record of $11m to an online fitness coach and influencer after a chance meeting in a hotel pool.
Rob and his wife, Meghan, have only just moved in to the home called ‘Dune’, but Adam (Cunnie) Sullivan of Evidence Based Training made them an offer that was too good to refuse.
“We first met at The Calile (hotel) in the pool,” Mr Gray, 34, said. “He’d had his eye on (the house) for a while. I gave in!”
Rob and Meghan Gray have sold their Burleigh Heads mansion ‘Dune’ for $11 million. Image supplied.
The design was inspired by Morocco. Image supplied.
Despite recent requests to lease the house for up to $20,000 a day — including interest from a pop star he would not name, Mr Gray said he had not been talking to any other prospective buyers.
Mr Sullivan, whose online training and nutrition program has 649,000 followers on Instagram alone, said he had asked advisors to reach out to Mr Gray about the house, but without success, so he plucked up the courage when he saw him that day.
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“I thought; ‘You know what, I’ll just do it myself,” Mr Sullivan said. “I think he thought I was joking!”
“I built a house in 2020 and it was inspired by The Calile and Graya.”
Rob and Meghan Gray with their two-year-old son, Hayes. Image supplied.
The view from the master bedroom! Image supplied.
The previous sale price record achieved for a residential property in Burleigh Heads was $9.7 million for a property at 10-12 Elanora Drive.
Rob and Meghan bought the 531 sqm block with an existing house on it on Burleigh Hill for $2.78 million in June 2022, when they decided to expand Graya’s apartment development business into the Gold Coast.
Graya’s team of architects designed the five-bedroom, Moroccan-inspired home featuring a rooftop pool as a statement project.
Fitness entrepreneur and founder of Evidence Based Fitness, Adam Sullivan. Image: Instagram.
The rooftop pool at ‘Dune’. Image supplied.
The design was inspired by Morocco. Image supplied.
Mr Gray said the offer to sell came at the right time for he and his wife, Meghan, and their two-year-old son, Hayes, but they saw their future on the Gold Coast.
“We’re hunting for somewhere else on the Gold Coast, preferably on Burleigh Hill, and we’ve enrolled Hayes in The Southport School, so long-term we see our future on the Gold Coast,” he said.
“The Gold Coast arm of the business is very much looking after itself now and we have more Brisbane projects than Gold Coast projects coming online.”
Inside ‘Dune’, a Morrocan-style mansion on Burleigh Hill that has sold for $11m. Image supplied.
What a house! Image supplied.
It comes as a new breed of cashed-up young buyers start to dominate Queensland’s prestige property market.
“It’s really hard to pick who’s got money at the moment,” Mr Gray said.
“The Graya product, particularly, has become a collector’s item because the brand has become so strong. Adam had Graya houses on his vision board many years ago.”
Tennis superstar Ash Barty recently bought an apartment for a reported $4 million in Graya’s Palm Beach project, Kloud, which is due for completion late next year.
The kitchen and living area of ‘Dune’, Burleigh Heads. Image supplied.
Rob and Meghan Gray have sold their Burleigh Heads mansion ‘Dune’ for $11 million. Image supplied.
Mr Gray said he had three new Gold Coast apartment projects coming up in Mermaid Beach, Broadbeach, and Tugun, and two more to launch in New Farm and Teneriffe.
“The market’s turned in our favour massively in the last four years,” he said. “Units have become more sought after in Queensland and with construction prices getting hard and builders leaving the industry, being able to do design, development and construction (of our projects) has made us a lot more rounded.”
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