Surfing heartthrob turned real estate developer Owen Wright seeking “expressions of interest from $6 million each” for his two luxury Byron Bay villas!

“The vision I saw was keen longboarders surfing The Pass every morning and dads teaching their groms to surf in kid-friendly waves…"

Three years ago, the one-time title contender turned real estate developer Owen Wright paid $5.1 million for an unremarkable beach shack a few hundred metres from The Pass in Australia’s Byron Bay. 

Of course, Owen, who is thirty-three and whose plume of golden hair, swooning eyes and bullfighter’s body suggest teen idol more than real estate developer, saw more than an idyllic little timber house surrounded by almost half-an-acre of grass and trees.

The then thirty year old saw potential.

“The vision I saw was keen longboarders surfing The Pass every morning or doing the lighthouse walk, dads teaching their groms to surf in kid-friendly waves and then getting their own barrels around the corner at Tallows,” he said.  

The development at 2 Daniels St, Byron Bay, Owen’s first, comprises four villas, each joint with four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, solar system, Tesla battery, pool and so on. 

Owen’s keeping one of the villas for himself and his fam and so is the developer Burke Urban – a good sign, for if the two principals behind the build are hanging around y’know your six-mill plus ain’t gonna fall down around your ears, or if it does you don’t have far to to go to vent spleen or chuck a poorly installed faucet at ’em.

Owen ain’t afraid of playing the real estate game.

You’ll remember the $1.6 million house at Lennox Head with its indoor swimming pool that meandered through the living room,  the Federation-style house in Byron Bay (a little under a million), the beachfront townhouse at Thirroul (675,000) and the gorgeous mountain-top hideaway (bought for 750k, sold for a million).

Express your interest for one of the Daniels Street joints here. although caveat emptor, as they say.

One real estate maven I spoke to said, “Six-mill is a hard ask after all the floods in the past few months. Sits at the bottom of a hill, smack bang beside the water run-off drains… it does require some bravo if you’re handing over six big ones.”