Sixty-one Hillcrest Avenue, Mona Vale, is a lovingly rebuilt wooden house from the thirties with elevated views of the surf that will never disappear.
The just-turned eighty-year-old inventor of the sheepskin Ugg boot and enduring swordsman, Shane Stedman, has sold his iconic Mona Vale beach house for $5,306,000.
The figure, as impressive as it is, was a little undercooked I think given the recent sale of a relatively unimpressive garden apartment a few clicks from the beach for three point seven mill. ‘
Sixty-one Hillcrest Avenue, Mona Vale, is a lovingly rebuilt wooden house from the thirties, squatting at the end of a cul-de-sac with elevated views of the surf that will never disappear.
Five beds, three bathrooms, almost seven thousand square feet of dirt.
Shane’s son, Luke, a former world number eleven whom Dirty Water visited one month ago, occupied a studio at the bottom of the house, a private dwelling where the lanky Lothario was able to exercise his own womb scraping.
Stedman, whose real first name is Anthony but who changed it after watching the 1953 western Shane, plans to use the cash to build a multi-generational compound at Tintenbar, just behind Lennox Head and only a short drive to the thirty-million dollar home of Chris Hemsworth.
“Buying some land, throwing a couple of shacks on it and moving dad up the coast so he can watch the grandkids and we can keep an eye on the old grommet,” Luke told BeachGrit.
A house at Crescent Head, near Vaughan Blakey’s Medellín-style spread, which Shane has spent years and gallons of sweat building, will be available for holiday rentals.
On Facebook, Shane asked for pals to recall their fondest memory from the house, the most telling a post from SurfStitch founder Lex Pedersen who wrote,
“When getting shown the upstairs room ‘Fellas, if you’re real quiet, you can hear the panties hit the floor'”.
Glory days etc.
I’m definitely jealous but how the fuck can Blakey afford a gaff like that??
If you really wanted to do core Lords a favor, you’d spin yarn on the advantages of real estate purchases in Australia’s interior.
Medellin doesnt look like that. For starters its about 2000m above sea level. The medellin look is crappy red brick and concrete. Looks just like the favelas in Rio. Foxy putas galore but let’s say the architecture is “rustic”.
I remember a law suit maybe 10 years ago to determine who invented ugg boots. There were things called “ugh” boots before ugg boots. Good luck the the guy if he won I suppose.
I saw an interview and he sold the company to Americans …. for a tidy sum , enough to send the kids to private school etc …. but he explained he wanted to stay and surf on the Northern Beaches and would have had to move to the States if He wanted to make a fortune with it … or so he said .
Thats one tough, really impressive looking big toe he has on his right foot.
I bet it doesn’t even have a toenail
Toe-tally.
Toe-tally-home-stead-man …..
It might trouble Shane , Popout of his UGG boot unexpectedly while he saunters around his home-stead man ?
When’s the best time to sell real estate?–never.
Thats a $89 kitchen tap.
what’s the three rules of buying real estate? Location. Location. Location.
you guys get cheap shit from china too? I thought only American’s were allowed.
Don’t buy yr faucets (or any plumbing shit) from Home Depot…. Kholer, Moen, etc. make a different version for their sales. But yr plumbing stuff from plumbing supply…..
no doubt. when I was building houses in my past life, i remember them starting to change and the plumbers saying “I will not install that shit”. It made for a great time moderating between the plumber and the home buyer.
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My dad told our builders the same thing!!!! He might be pissed at me if he sees this little exchange
Still $5.3 goes a long way at the nursing home.
seriously what do you need at a nursing home? the latest playstation and some nappies and a bottle of viagra every now again. that is it! that does not cost much.
Maybe it’s just me, but not a single fuck is given about people selling way overpriced seven figure real estate. I’ve lived in California all of my life, and seen some truly impressive houses. Still and all, I’d guess that aspiring real estate agents would find this interesting, but the average surfer really couldn’t care less.
It looks like a dream house. Fuck my worthless existence in this damp fibro piece of shit house. Prices are fucked at the moment. Shane’s house is only worth about 3 times my joint when it should be worth 50 times more. Can the bikies start a war with the Indian grocers or something to drop the house prices. Put the interest rates back up. Fuck sake.
I could never live somewhere I couldn’t walk to the shops or the surf.
Unless you wanna spend a fair bit of coin around Juc….. Torquay caravan park is pretty much the only joint offering those amenities haha. Fuck
It’s fucken crazy – who’s got that sorta money ? I mean normal cunts.
And even if the super wealthy can afford it – there’s a finite amount of those.
There you are with 750,000 and you gotta borrow 3.25 mill to buy a 4 mill property and you’re gonna pay around 14,000 a month ?
That’s insane.
This is a house of cards just waiting for a squall. No shit.
And think around the world how many of those houses that are out there being bought and sold every day… that is a lot of 1% as they call it, or is it a lot of wanna be 1%’ers… cards are really high now.
70 million,
one percenters
Too fucking many too.. they all have redone land rovers with mid lengths.. cunts
You can always move to warralilly with all the aspirationals. Thanks to bomber Thompson and his cronies.
There’s thousands of options in Sydney.
But you gotta be on the hustle 24/7
I grew up walking to the surf but been living far away from it for a few years now and recently started to think fuck what I am doing gotta get back, waking up every morning thinking like that and walking to the shops thinking fuck should be starting the day with a walk to the surf not the fucking shops!
Yeah it’s expensive but fuk it,
They say if you wanna be rich, act rich
I am kind of working towards it – not getting rich but at least setting up close to decent surf again, say in three-four years. War, pestilence and natural disasters allowing.
It’s game changer, a total fucking joke.
Yeah, but because of that weird imbalance in ‘value’, all your mates who can’t be arsed buying a nice cliff top pied-a-terre, are coming up here and fucking up my mild rental ambitions. Ironically, we are moving to a spot where I will be able to walk to the beach. Although I might have to ride a pushy to the IGA.
“Womb scraping”??
DR, you’re fucked.
I really think you should transition into writing shitty romance novels for women, Dez.
You’re a natural – many panties thrown at readings etc
You’ve given me an idea for a new genre. Scat romantic novelist. Fellas’, if you’re real quiet you can hear her shit slice through her g-string like a hot dog through a band saw.
Wiggs, you’re a sick cunt.
I believe you could turn drilling for vegemite into a gold mine ?
where I go on my holiday’s there is a “retired” couple. the wife is an old chubby woman with not such an obvious creative side… she writes those novels under a pseudonym. What is your pseudonym there Dez?
May I suggest Othello’s Venetian Beauty ,
Dez de Moaner or Desdemona for short ?
i will have to get some bed side books.. should I let the wife read these?
Foreshore …. and for sure .
50 Shades of Grey. I’ve never read it, but if it’s on the bedside table, my chances go up about 80%.
That and ‘Outlander’ on Netflix.
Nice to get a bit of hand with putting in the hard yards.
That book was the best on a surf trip the wifey would take reading breaks just for me!!!