Bullish sale for down-and-out former world title contender.
The one-time world title contender and Olympic bronze medallist Owen Wright, who was dumped from the world tour one month ago following a series of shock results, has achieved redemption of sorts after selling one of his luxury Byron Bay villas for $6.5 million.
A little over three years ago, Owen paid a pretty wild $5.1 million for an unremarkable beach shack at 2 Daniels Street, a few hundred metres from The Pass in Australia’s Bryon Bay.
It wasn’t Owen’s first property play; he’s been buying and selling up and down the coast for the last decade.
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).
Owen, of course, didn’t see a charming wooden home he might squeeze his little family into post-tour, he saw…land, half-an-acre of prime Byron Bay dirt right in the middle of the joint’s biggest ever boom.
Owen, along with developer Burke Urban, built four luxury villas, keeping one apiece, and put the other two on the market.
A few days ago, the first of ‘em sold for six-and-a-half mill, a wild result given the brittle housing market in Byron, a shire ravaged by flood and teetering on the biggest property collapse Australia has ever seen.
Stroll through 2 Daniels St, here, buy the other one if you got the change.
Shiny shoes and shiny teeth!
Spellcheck, To the Wright
What are squatter’s rights like there in Byron?
“With proceeds going to other surfers fallen off tour that has forced a loss of income”
My main take away from this one. That photo reminds me that I am actually in love with Steph.
Zillow is really starting to piss me off. They email me every morning with a list of “10 Homes We Think You Will Love.” At first I kept opening them thinking how nice of them… Might as well take a look.. See what’s out there. Then I realized these fuckers are stickin it to me. Mansions, Duplexes, beachfront property (All over priced). The kicker is they will usually throw in one place that is somewhat in the ballpark of what I could afford. It’s always a shanty that looks like its disintegrating before your eyes. I don’t recommend opening this email if you want to start your day off right.
Rich guy gets richer
Rich guy gets cut
Rich guy kinda looks like Sasha the longboard ladyboy too, what is going on?
Are you suggesting he could be giving his sister and the others a run for the title in the future?
With a little bit of work, he would be passable as a girl. She could call herself Gwen. Tyler and her would be the Wright sisters.
6.5 million would probably get ya a nice sex-change…
Surgeon: “That’s a hell of a lot of dong to get rid of sir, are you 100% sure about this?”
Tyler could share her ovarian probs with Gwen.
Better to take the moniker: ‘If The Price Is’.
Rich guy becomes an advertiser
Poor bloke becomes a junkie
What a tragic waste of potential
And a junkies not good either.
T.I.S.M.
getting $ over RRP with CTE. s-m-r-t
I only deal with Hookers
Nobody does it better
Baby,theyre the best
Squirting your money away
Australian crew… Palmerbet is offering $150 to play with if you deposit $50.
Just couldn’t. I live a about a 5 iron from Clive’s ‘Resort’.
If it wasn’t bad enough:
1/. having the single largest local employer screwing all of the workers out of previously stable jobs, 2/. on top of what he did to Queensland Nickel Plant workers,
3/. let alone the travesty of his parliamentary term,
4/. combined with putting a 500 bright fucken yellow signs around his ‘resort’,
5/. spending $180 million plus on election advertising (to win 0, repeat 0 seats and 0 Senate reps).
The thought of putting any money into anything with that name just gives me shivers.
I think there’s a forgotten fourth child too but you just gotta work with what ya know, ya know?
There is! And he’s a Plumber! So you’re all set when the rest of the wrights upper deck your toilet! A family affair
that’s not wright…they’ll need a Plunger…to flush the tampons that clog the septic system. and a honey wagon for offsite treatment…and contrary to instagram advice, ongoing psychiatric counseling.
that’s Wright… carry on.
Built? or off the plan?
They ain’t built, otp
Oh thank goodness. I was reeeeeeeaaally worried about him for a while.
I’m buying one! Hopefully when I get Mikey the floors are Wright so I won’t be Owen too much to the Tyler.
they could definitely you hook you up with the wright accountant.
10 metres from homeless hippies who will steal ya shit unless you lock it up.
pretty funny, ‘cept I literally blew coffee out of both nose & mouth with a nice spray pattern. at least I didn’t hit a hippie…cleaning up mess now. fuck!
He should have pushed for a July 1 settlement as no doubt his taxable income will be a lot less in FY2023 !
It is worked on contract date big fella so settlement date is irrelevant.