And swoops on knockdown for $2.2 million on giant almost beachfront hunk of dirt.
Kieren Perrow has always been regarded, and correctly so in my opinion, as the owner of surfing’s best and most determined mind.
Hardly a natural talent, although almost without peer in big surf, KP once told me that he “felt like I had something to prove in surfing. No one thought I could qualify. I was never a stand-out. I was never being touted as the Next Big Thing. It didn’t upset me but part of me wanted to say, Fuck you, I did it.”
His first year on tour? Seventh. Rookie of the year.
KP would finish a career with two event wins, Margarets and Pipe, and a job as “commissioner” of the WSL.
His smarts have become apparent, again, lately, with the sale of the Byron Bay-adjacent house he bought in 2002 for $525,000, sold for a bullish $2.8 million.
The old nineties brick house, which had undergone a significant renovation but still featured KP’s Gerry Lopez Pipe Masters single-fin trophy affixed to the wall, as well as framed prints of Hugh Holland’s vintage skate photos, proved a hot item last December when it was listed.
Here’s a taste.
The listing agent, I’m told, even pointed out to prospective buyers the spot under the mature Pandanus tree where KP buried the ring he got for his twenty-first birthday and the very spot in the yard where he married his wife Danielle.
Living in Byron Bay has suddenly become a rite of passage for middle-to-upper-class Sydney bankers, freed from the strictures of office work, to live the sub-tropical dream.
A hedge fun manager’s Morning of the Earth epoch.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLJKAJBhucF/
Perrow’s latest joint, bought for $2.2 million last September, squats just one street back from the beach. It features an unlovely and brooding brown brick house begging to be demolished.
Another smart play. Sub-div the land, build a couple of adobe-style coastal retreats and oowee etc.
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Stringless bikini bottom.
I’d built two circular pools in the front and a new pathway to the beach. Here’s a fancy 3d rendering for better visualization.
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Was there ever any follow-up on whether the sale of the two Volcom houses was legit? If so, where are their team-riders staying next year?
OK, since the Great J Lo, err Jerry Lopez was mentioned in this article. Time to throw this out there. When is he going to get bus chucked for signing his name to this abomination of a product, that now replaces the Wavestorm at Costco. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Stop thinking, just slurp up the marketing for this and you’ll see how cool it is. I mean its GOT HIS NAME on it. Must be good.
From Costco: ‘8ft. soft top surfboard designed by Gerry Lopez, aka Mr. Pipeline, world renowned surfer from Honolulu, Hawaii. Gerry was once widely recognized as the best tube rider in the world. Gerry not only shaped the blank for this surfboard, he’s put his name on it as well, ensuring a great all-around performance in multiple surf conditions’.
Wiiiillllllbbbuuuurrrr – you are the man! I now see the light. Heading down shortly to pick one up. BTW – can someone show me which direction the fins point?
Shit I only ride surf mats, what are fins??
He lost me when I saw pics of him at G land in a speedo.
He’s been run over by the bus already!
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2.8 mil for a renoed house with no view?
The interior reminds of of a good Mexican restaurant I used to go to.
I sure hope the new joint has an adequate pool room for all his trophies
I didnt know bgrit was a brag platform for our portfolios. This is pre-bubble profiteering, and hes not some smart pioneer. But good on him
LGR will rent him the lanai.
$2.8 million and it doesn’t even have a lock up garage – just a single carport. Worlds’ fucked.
keep it and offer free accommodation to homeless, drifters and downtrodden. then buy the neighbouring properties for a “steal” after prices stagnate. then boot vagrants, wait 12 months and bobs your uncle.
edit
scrap first idea, open a wellness centre offering crystals, botox, crochet bikinis, Charlie and bolt ons.
the CBCBCB centre
CB, you want new gig? you can still run the laundry out of the back shed if you want and wiggs needs to be kept on a short leash.
Kinda like wall street bets in reverse
cunting the cunts
whats the go with burying the ring?
A ‘friend of mine’ just sold a bare land 1/4 acre section 10ish miles from the coast for $340k that he’d paid $28k for in 2004 after being paid $1k a day to help another bloke harvest and manicure his ‘herbs’ for a month.
Faaaaar better odds !
Though I guess wOsl administration types aren’t known for any sensible anything of any kind (especially investments…)
P.S.
Apparently ‘my friend’ is gonna spend it on building a model railway (of the area where he’s planning a bank vault robbery), and/or going surfing in Indo for the next 10 years…
A truly odious business.
Man lives in house for twenty years and then sells for profit. Busy day eh boys?
I hate rich capitalist bastards stinking up the Neighbourhood.
But I sure hope one buys my beachfront pad one day.
Don’t. Sell.
Any beach front property in a safe stable country is pure gold. Hang on to it.
Any beachfront property anywhere is at risk of tsunami.
If you have any, sell it.
The wise men live a quarter of a mile inland on hills over looking the coastal flood plains…
I bought my beach house in Nov 2019 for 180k. It’s already valued at $250k in one year. 5 min drive from my door to the beach. Best decision we ever made. Theres no home inventory left on our island anymore and almost no buildable land left either. Can’t wait to sell this place and move to Chile permanently.
The land of the lefts. Seems like one of the few places on the planet still not destroyed and overrun.
This post was strangely prophetic (and im not even sure how i ended up back on some three year old article)
I look forward to
Every fuck wit on Earth
Moving to Byron
Because if they’re there
They can’t spread their shit down here
Just like quarantine
I love Lyall Bay
For exactly that reason
A wanker black hole
My good friend lives there!
Got some lefts off the runway
And good espresso 🙂
Lyall Bay kooks galore
In the water but good cooks
For post surf feed
2 bots o’ San Pelli! Corny DHD fish with inlay!
Nice1 Property Stager
at least it wasn’t a hypto crypto. stagers board of choice
“Living in Byron Bay has suddenly become a rite of passage for middle-to-upper-class Sydney wankers.”
TFTFY Dez !
Cheers, mate