Staggering real estate portfolio of Surf Olympian Owen Wright and rock star wife Kita Alexander laid bare with reveal of Byron Bay beach shack weekender!

“It’s sandy feet, it’s just coming back from the surf, it’s across the road from the beach, it’s the ultimate beach shack,” says Owen’s rock star wife Kita Alexander, mammy to his two kids.

Only four days after breaking soil on his $26 million dollar luxe townhome build near The Pass, the one-time world title contender Owen Wright has swung open the door on his Byron Bay weekender, which comes with a heated plunge pool and a luxury studio. 

The main house, four beds, swept all day by the sun and cooling breezes, is called Drifters and the little studio is like a hotel room out there in the back yard, perfect for lovers on a budget or just-divorced daddies fleeing the chaos of their ruined families with a run up north. 

(You can rent ’em both on Air BnB when the Wrights aren’t around.) 

“It’s sandy feet, it’s just coming back from the surf, it’s across the road from the beach, it’s the ultimate beach shack,” says Owen’s rock star wife Kita Alexander, mammy to his two kids.

O bought the joint fourteen years ago and the pair navigated the hurdles of Australia’s COVID lockdowns to renovate, turning the ol heritage listed house, dark as hell, sorta place you crack open the cheap Sierra tequila at nine am, to the Instagramable home it is today. 

The house and studio, along with the $26 mill build just up the road, is just one piece in the mighty Owen Wright property portfolio, of course.

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 (sold for 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).

It hasn’t all been real estate success for O, howevs.

A sour note in Owen’s fairytale life, and apart from the brain damage episode in 2015, was the theft of almost one million bucks of his personal stash by a family friend employed as the fam’s bookkeeper which led to his estrangement from Ma and Pa Wright as well as friction with his siblings and his pop star wife. 

In a victim impact statement read to court prior to the sentencing of poker machine enthusiast Shane Maree Hatton, who copped five years at the top with a three-year non-parole period a year ago, Owen admitted he accused his family members of stealing and even told his wife to lay off the spending. 

Owen said he was “emotionally worn down”, couldn’t sleep, was perpetually pissed off and anxious.

Accusing his parents of ripping him, he said, off had lasting ramifications. 

“My relationships…are still damaged because of the anger issues I had around this,” he said.

And, because of the theft, he couldn’t get out of the pro surfing game despite his catastrophic 2015 brain injury, only splitting when he was kneecapped by the mid-year cut.

“I wanted to retire but I couldn‘t financially (due to the impact of the offending) and fought back into my career risking my life in the process… I was still being stolen from while I could barely walk and while the doctors were saying I would never work again in my career. The physical risk I‘ve taken on to keep surfing was a choice I made because I was not financially in the position to stop my career.”

(The Big O was made real sad by the mid-tour cull, telling the Lipped podcast “It failed the first time and it’s failing again. I’d love for it to never happen again in the future… I don’t know how it’s gone ahead. Every time it gets brought up it gets brushed under the carpet.”)