Jamie Durie is set to take home a serious payday as his Avalon Beach mega-mansion goes under the hammer.
The six-bedroom, six-bathroom residence in Sydney’s Northern Beaches is heading to auction in March with a price guide of between $27 million and $29 million.
Durie and his fiancée Ameka Jane spent 10 years planning and building their luxury waterside family home with their two children.
The celebrity gardener, 55, who purchased the home for $2.27 million in 2015, previously received a private offer of more than $30 million on the property, The Daily Telegraph reported last year.
‘We’ve spent 10 years planning and building our family home and we love it,’ Durie said.
‘We received an unexpected offer in the mid $30million and are now warming to the idea of spending some time on our hobby farm with the kids while they are young.’
Jamie Durie (pictured at home) is set to take home a serious payday as his Avalon Beach mega-mansion goes under the hammer
The six-bedroom, six-bathroom residence in Sydney’s Northern Beaches is heading to auction in March with a price guide of between $27 million and $29 million
Durie said the family sank $3 million and 10 years into building the sustainable forever home.
Despite the hurdles along the way, Durie forged ahead, determined to create a lavish multi-level mansion for his family with sustainability as its bedrock.
Durie, Jane and their two children, Beau, four, and Nash, two, moved into the home last November.
The TV star also shares a third child Taylor, 26, from a prior relationship, who lives elsewhere.
The million-dollar design saw the original 1960s four-bedroom cottage pulled down and replaced with a sprawling six-bedroom mansion.
The lavish home, which Durie described as ‘innovative, sympathetic and responsive to the topography of the site’, boasts a pool, gym and media room.
Durie chronicled the three-year build of his Avalon Beach home, following several years of design, in his new show Growing Home.
The documentary-style program shows all the little details that went into bringing Durie’s sustainable dream to life, creating a home which ‘maximised everything we wanted out of a house without compromise’ all while treading lightly on the planet.
Durie and his fiancée Ameka Jane spent 10 years planning and building their luxury waterside family home with their two children
The celebrity gardener, 55, who purchased the home for $2.27 million in 2015, previously received a private offer of more than $30 million on the property
The million-dollar design saw the original 1960s four-bedroom cottage pulled down and replaced with a sprawling six-bedroom mansion
‘I’ve always wanted to make a show that focuses on sustainable building, not just in the home but in gardens,’ he told Daily Mail at the time.
‘For me, if we were going to make a show about sustainable building, then we should practice what we preach and show our house first. So that’s what we did.’
But the build, which he dubs the ‘Trojan horse of sustainability’, has not been without a few hiccups for Durie along the way.
The landscaping guru was granted approval in April 2022 by the Northern Beaches Council for his development application (DA) for the waterfront property, despite receiving more than 50 objections from angry locals.
Durie admitted to Woman’s Day he was ‘sorry’ for the stress the gargantuan build had caused his partner and their children.
‘It’s been the toughest project I have ever taken on in my whole life,’ Durie said.
‘I’m sorry for the stress this has put on our family.’
Durie later purchased his Byron Bay hinterland ‘hobby farm’ in 2023 for $3.6 million.
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