Jamie Durie has slashed $5 million off the price tag of his Avalon mansion on Sydney’s Northern Beaches after it failed to sell at auction earlier this year.
The six-bedroom, six-bathroom waterfront property, which was originally priced at $33 million, is now up for grabs for $28 million, according to Domain.
Durie and his fiancée Ameka Jane spent 10 years planning and building their luxury family home with their two children.
The celebrity gardener, 56, who purchased the home for $2.27 million in 2015, previously told The Daily Telegraph last year that he received a private offer of more than $30 million on the property.
‘We’ve spent 10 years planning and building our family home and we love it,’ Durie said at the time.
‘We received an unexpected offer in the mid-$30 million and are now warming to the idea of spending some time on our hobby farm with the kids while they are young.’
Jamie Durie has slashed $5 million off the price tag of his Avalon mansion on Sydney ’s Northern Beaches after it failed to sell at auction earlier this year. Pictured with his fiancée Ameka Jane
The six-bedroom, six-bathroom waterfront property, which was originally priced at $33 million, is now up for grabs for $28 million
Durie said the family sank $3 million and 10 years into building the sustainable home.
Despite the hurdles along the way, he 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, five, and Nash, three, moved into the home in November 2024.
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 showed 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.
‘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.
The celebrity gardener, 56, who purchased the home for $2.27 million in 2015, previously told The Daily Telegraph last year that he received a private offer of more than $30 million on the property
The lavish home, which Durie described as ‘innovative, sympathetic and responsive to the topography of the site’, boasts a pool, gym and media room
‘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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