"It's a surfer's dream!"
A little over two years ago, the Australian professional surfer Adrian “Ace” Buchan, famous for his blue-eyed-blond-college girl look, listed his “forever house” a few hundred yards off Avoca Beach, a pretty enough stretch of sand although not uniquely beautiful, a couple of hours north of Sydney.
Ace and his gal bought the house in 2007 for $760,000, but, riding a property boom seemingly without a ceiling, were hoping for a sale of three-mill or maybe a little more. The four-bed, three-bathroom house five yards from the beach and with enough parking for a quartet of cars was built in 1980 and occupies a hunk of dirty of eight-thousand square feet.
“We love watching the ocean and surf conditions while we’re eating our breakfast. Full moons rising over the ocean are beautiful and sunsets over the lake are too,” Buchan told the real estate rags.
The house languished on the market for over three months before it was pulled. (Even Australians recoil at three-mill for a joint in a regional town that isn’t beachfront or brimful with the accoutrements of luxury, cinemas etc.)
The market has since firmed and Ace’s joint is back on the market.
“It’s a surfer’ dream,” says Ace.
Undoubtedly he will be giving his profits to fund housing for the poor.
Nobody is paying top dollar so they can tell there friends they bought Ace Buchan’s house. Who?
What he needs is a poof with a paunch and Gucci’s reinvention of Nike sneakers to shift that thing.
Still doing the Aussie “windows every f where” theme.
“built like a brick shithouse”
Turning into a surf real estate blog now, go beachgrit do u get a commision ? Surfing speculators has a nice ring to it.
Welcome, stranger. Such has always been the butter on the soda bread round these parts. Settle down and grab a handful.
The youtube video on the listing website is white gold! the cheese platter was the selling point for me.
pick up 3 pieces of trash…
*rubbish. cunts.
I wonder if former world #7 ping pong players or 400m sprint athletes are also sitting on $2m worth of real estate.
Privileged little sport isn’t it
whatever happened to Awayco?
It went away?
I can see maybe middle million as a knock down redevelopment into flats, sorry units but even at that price probably not worth the time and effort and neighbourhood trouble
Thank goodness the WSL season is over and Beach Grit can concentrate on much more important surf adjacent articles about stuff that really matters to surfers, like really really really overpriced hovels in a location that no-one outside Australia has ever heard of.
Should have advertised:
You’ll Never Be World Champion Surfer If You Live Here!
Come to Avoca Beach…..A Great Place to Write Children’s Books
That’s a long 5 yards to the beach.
good olde imperial system
You were second mate
Fuck off jees he’s gotta be in every photo !
They’re selling real estate, but throw in a picture of his free board collection!?
Where does the burrito go?
Guess baby cakes.
Xox
Whatever happened to Shane Powell
I think he’s a commercial fisherman up at Yamba
Ding ding. Regularly seen absolutely ripping the bag out of Angourie
His living in longtom garden shed while they write his bio and can afford a dentist