Great for writing or taking your pants off!
Have you ever thought about giving up? Just walking out of your job, walking out of your automobile lease, walking out of your home/apartment and starting over in Australia’s bucolic Byron Bay? Of course you have. Byron Bay is home to many sexy things like koalas and eucalyptus trees and men who don’t wear pants.
It is also home to Wade Goodall’s ex-home and you YOU can use your automobile lease money and forgotten mortgage/rent payment and slide right in there. Let us read about it.
Professional surfer Wade Goodall and wife Jane are selling their Byron Bay hinterland home.
But they’re not venturing far from their current Bangalow base.
The couple, who have two daughters Violet and Jane, have recently secured a larger block just nearby where they are going to a build a new house.
McGrath Ballina agents Braden and Andrea Walters have a guide of between $1,075,000 to $1.15 million for its August 4 auction.
Wade, who was born in Bangalow, began surfing after watching VHS videos of his father.
He was signed to Billabong when he was 11, spending over 15 years with the popular surf label before he broke both his legs in quick succession.
He has been an ambassador with fashion label Vans.
The couple previously had a 1980s beach house at Moffat Beach.
When moving down from the Sunshine Coast to Bangalow, Goodall said “I’m surrounded by the most beautiful green hills and there’s waves every day”.
Back in 2003 they spent $300,000 on a 690 square metre Palm-Lily Crescent land parcel, set some 13 kilometres inland from the Byron Bay coast.
Their home was built in the classic Queenslander style, set behind a white picket fence.
The modern family home with timber floors and white decor features a rear and front verandah.
It has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a stone bench kitchen and a study nook.
Bangalow house prices have ranged from $700,000 up to $1,695,000 this year.
A tightly-held original Bangalow farmhouse, built around 1910 for the Fowler family, sold last weekend at $1.23 million through Elders agent Duncan Lorimer.
The cottage on a 9133 square metre Fowlers Lane holding came with a $950,000 to $1,045,000 price guide.
Steven Dover set the $4,575,000 record price in 2011.
That was lots too much information but guess what I did today? After podcasting with David Lee Scales I had lunch, at Moto Deli in Leucadia, with Jamie Brisick! He has been one of my writing heroes for years and years and years but I had never met him until today. He not only lived up to my lofty expectations…he far exceeded them.
Who needs Byron when you have Jamie?
Oh. Wait. It looks soothing.
His wife Jane. Does that make her the monkey lady?
“The boom is going to get boomier!” Bertie Ahern 2006
Is Byron Bay now a cosmopolitan major city , or is a pied a terre now defined as a holiday house not even by the sea ?
It was a very clumsy use of “pied-a-terre”. I liked the way it looked in a headline.
Poetic License . Sorry for being over zealous .
All my real estate reports say rent as the bottom is falling out globally….buy back at the bottom… but he’ll like a renter you never own it…. just a Tennant on paper… don’t pay the taxes..the man takes it back.
Chemtrails in the sky are not pleasing to buyers!
Did Wade ever win a contest? All I remember is him ripping and breaking leg and then ripping and breaking his leg.
And then he broke the first leg again, right?
No. He has 3 legs.
That’s awesome they’re building a new place. Wade, break a leg my guy!
I was gonna say ‘something something, putting the pie in pied-a-terre’ but then I realised I had the wrong Wade. Story of my life
You had the right Wade, all Wades eat pies
Move to Chula Vista?
I’m contemplating Tijuana. Carlsbad is like Irvine Jr. but we have Terramar….
Fuckikng bangahole.
I love it when you occasionally drop all literary pretension and just talk like a garden-variety bus driver.
Fucken boomers
Sounds really expensive, or is it not? How much then for the same kind of house closer to the beach?
Australia has approx 1 km squared for every inhabitant but unfortunately all 20million of them/us want to live in the same street overlooking the sea .Having a chant of jimmy blacksmith moment,not sure if I still belong to any tribe or nation .
I can relate.
Hey James, for the same price, you’ll find a great “pied à terre” in the Medoc or around the Bassin. You’ve spent enough time around here to be considered a local! Any person ready to spend more than a year in Bordeaux deserve the south west citizenship from my point of view!
Getting to old for the cold but thanks for the invite .
Ah, I understand that! “Too old for the cold” sounds like a great title for the blues tune I’ll feel like playing come november…
La Toussaint Blues .ps Must be warmer at Todos Santos , dia de muertos ?
Goddamn, realtors are horny for HDR photos. Even more than rappers on instagram.
jeez, 13 km from the beach. Expecting around a mill.
Fark, you don’t get a lot for your money.
I guess that’s the market – but fuckn hell …
Too rich for me !
edit: Now I think about it, where’s my fukkn garage ?
If I’m paying a mill to live in Banga there ain’t no way I’m leaving my pridenjoy out on the street. No way. Man cave or no deal for a mill, the market can go kiss my hairy arse.
You’d be lucky to get a stand-alone garage (without even a house) in Sydney for a mil!
Some cunt recently sold his garage for nearly $900,000.
… and my wife wants us to go closer to that shithole… fuck.
All very well if you bought a house 20 years ago or are a millionaire.
But.. Study “nook”
Big day!