Jamie Durie has given an exclusive tour of his luxe waterfront home in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
The property, located in Avalon Beach, took a decade of meticulous planning and two years of construction and boasts six-bedrooms, six-bathrooms, a pool overlooking Pittwater, and an entire level dedicated to wellness featuring a yoga room, sauna and outdoor ice bath.
The selling point of the home is that it is eco-friendly and has off-grid capacity, with it’s own geothermal heating and cooling system powered by solar panels.
“It really is one of the healthiest houses in Australia,” Durie said.
The home has an open-plan main dining, living and kitchen, with 230 plants in the foyer, which they call “the lungs of the house,” as the plants are “constantly absorbing VOC’s or volatile organic compounds.”
The home has many gardens with plenty of native plants including 1000-year-old grass trees from Margaret River, Western Australia.
The outdoor pool is chlorine-free and uses a special system which makes the water “clean enough to drink,” Durie said.
Other sustainable features include carbon and silicon free benchtops, zero gas kitchen, carpets made using recycled ocean plastic from discarded fishing nets and more.
The lighting is all LED, with an automated circadian rhythm lighting system, designed to aid with regulating sleep-cycles.
“It’s a really healthy house to live in and we’ve found nothing but peace, quiet, exclusivity and privacy,” Durie said.
The multistory home, equipped with stairs and it’s own lift, is set for private auction on March 1 with a price guide of $29m.
“The house first went on the market for $33m as a guide, but we are in a hurry to move so we’ve dropped the guide to $29m and the response has been incredible,” Durie said.
The TV presenter initially acquired the property for $2.27m in 2015, when it only had a cottage.
Since building the home and documenting the process on Seven’s Growing Home with Jamie Durie, it has hosted multiple events, commercials and music videos, generating around $167,000 in one month.
“We’ve had a few celebrities look at the house, even Billie Eilish was going to rent it for the night for $25,000,” Durie said. “So the house itself actually earns quite a bit of money.”
Although no price for the build was disclosed, Durie said: “if you were to build this house again today it would be somewhere around $40m.”
Durie also added that there has been a lot of research that went into the house.
“It’s one of the only off-grid homes in Australia that has this kind of technology,” he said.
“That, I think, blended with the rooftop garden and the various choices you have in the home makes it a really special home in what I think is one of the most special locations in Australia.
“You cannot beat this view, I’ve been all around the world and I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Durie plans to relocate to their farm in Byron’s hinterland with his partner Ameka Jane and their two kids Beau and Nash.
“The plan for us is really just to spend a few quality years with the kids while they are at a young age,” Durie said.
“Nash is turning three shortly and Beau will be turning five this year so we want them to have a few of their younger years on the farm before they get tied up in heavy tertiary schooling and all of that.
“We want them to live off the land and grow their own vegetables, we’ve planted about 500 fruit trees and a beautiful vegetable garden, it’s really fun.”
Images: McGrath Pittwater-Avalon Beach/ Instagram
