"Treasured by the same family since 1940, this beach shack has welcomed six generations to the joy of ocean-view living."
It may be a fixture along the Great White Superhighway, read this account of one surfer’s brush with a Gee Dub at the town’s famous point, but ain’t nothing stopping the price of Lennox Head’s ol beach shacks from continuing to soar into the stratosphere.
Ooowee, that was a beautiful old joint, painted a pretty pale blue, front windows looking into an old frangipani tree, and with a back yard so vast and lush you could almost hear the squeals of little kids flying down a slip and slide or bouncing around on a backyard trampoline.
That sale came a couple of years after Australian actor and surfer Simon Baker shucked his seventeen-mill Bronte crib, and wife, for a cement block and timber beach shack a few hundred metres from Lennox Point.
Baker, who was fifty-two at the time, bought the two-bedder at 23 Dress Circle Drive, Lennox Head, for almost three-mill following the breakup of his marriage and the subsequent sale of couple’s Bronte house for seventeen-mill; a place they bought in 2015 for six-and-a-half mill.
Just listed a short time ago, is a three-bedroom beach shack at 4 Rayner Lane there in Lennox Head, a joint that was built eighty-five years ago and which has stayed in the same family ever since, with hopes of four-and-a-half mill plus.
Selling literature advises:
One of the privileged few to command absolute Seven Mile Beach frontage, this incredibly rare 1105m2 block offers immense potential from its exclusive Rayner Lane position. Treasured by the same family since 1940, the original three bedroom beachfront cottage has welcomed six generations to the joy of ocean-view living. With medium density zoning, this large block offers extraordinary development potential just footsteps to the surf and the vibrant atmosphere of Lennox Head village.
Six generations that house has offered its soul to, built during World War II with all of its restrictions on materials and size, creating the loveliest home imaginable. Not a whole lot has changed since 1940, linoleum floor, wooden windows, original kitchen etc.
And, now, likely, a bulldozer will flatten and a squared-off modernist imitation with stick-on sandstone panels will rise from its sandy foundation.
A tragedy or the continuing dynamic of life? Steve Shearer sought for comment.
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Haw “fungible” I gotta have a kill phwoar
The “we’re all immigrants” thing is such bullshit.
What, you’re not entitled to an opinion and a vision for the future of your country if you’re white?
Spare me.
Had friends livineg near there back in the day for $50 a week and it was for sale for 25 grand long b4 the slimey developers real estate agents days
Bout 3 doors up from the old Cerff digs- Jason was fishing in the boat channel there when he got attacked by a longtom- made the paper.
Poor old Jase never recovered from a visit to Hawaii where he developed a taste for crack cocaine then ice.
Machete’d a finger off in front of his folks in a fit of drug psychosis.
Peer of Smiley Baker- damn, he used to shred the point.
Pub is plastic and fcuked.
Bowlo has a vibe, can watch UFC and they have live bands.
Awesome GT fishing out there on the reef.
I’ll take it! Hit me up in the DM’s.
Battle ropes galactica! Empowered from taking millions of selfies doing thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of kipping chins and all movements kipping, swillnutting freeriders are far too busy going next level swillnutty! So out come the infamous, deadly swillnut battleropes!
Hordes of handfulls of highly inflamed, irritated, frayed, crippled, maimed, hobbling, hamstrung, perforated, ear bashed, self flagellating, smashed crab yogi swillnuts, are polishing their battle scarred helmuts, as they flail, jerk, flop and tug their floppy, frayed, pulsating battleropes, and literally flagellate the low life stinking, lousy, treacherous, video content wielding scumbags, cashing in on directing packs of geeks to surf spots all over the planet!
‘These stinking, lousy geeks, basically the ironic butterfly mantra, dung beetles of surfing, even have the moral vacuum audacity to use our heroic, trump card, swillnut leaders and heroes, stupe’ and benneez’ armada of secret cameras and reports, to direct hordes of geeks to once secret spots! Now we can’t even afford to shack up at lennies, or even burleez’, wail, shriek, screech, groan and moan the floppy, frayed battlerope wielding swillnuts!
However, trumped up swillnut sheiks have drawn the line! ‘We’re toeing’ the line! Seeing as these cashing in lowlifes have used our world wide armada of secret 24/7 cameras, directions and reports, as hardcore geek locals, in a spartan like effort, we will protect the bulli pass, save democracy, the world, and refuse to put a camera there, that these geek, cashing in content creators can exploit! And do not for one moment confuse stinking, useless, ludicrous video content creating, with grounded, highly, morally intelligent swillnutty escapades! If it wasn’t for these toeing the line, ingenious, all round expert, swillnutty escapades, the amazing discovery of the infamous, highly interesting, swillnutty, ‘omega 3 protein’ would not have been possible. Thank God for swillnutting! And to further arrest these hordes of bullshitting geeks, us orange level, trumped up swillnut club sheiks have banned the use of, ‘shit in the barrel ‘ anyway, twin fins!!!’
Shattered by the enforced, drawn out, WSL public holiday, a folorn swillnut freerider took his hands off the battlerope just long enough to manage to put pen to paper, regarding this swillnut uproar! Explaining that he has much polishing to do, and that his swillnut sheiks now have him polishing the once quiet and secret lennox camera lense (sometimes even being allowed to polish the secret armada of directions and reports too), during this enforced WSL, twin fin free, prolonged hiatus.
But all is not lost! Almost! In a basically epic, carry on swillnutting, ironic butterfly, mantra willed, swillnut dung beetle moment of basic, swillnut brilliant genius, the trumped up swillnut border watch orange rangers have opened up and exposed real estate borders to every geek in the galaxy! Carry on swillnutting! Cash in while ya can!
Swillnuts ho! Ya gotta luv em!
Is that you Mick, you big raw-boned stallion?
What! I thought I had the perfect disguise! How could you have possibly guessed!
How can anyone resist swillnutty gems, the incredibly, expertly, educashinly resurched, educashinin, ludicrous swillnut club blatherings, for example, the infamous ‘omega 3 protein’, expert, genius, swillnutty discovery?
Hilarious watching the swillnut club endorsed, ‘omega 3 protein’ discoverer, suddenly then run with it, becoming west coast enforcer pioneer, reeling off kilometres of line, miles and miles of swillnutty, battle rope self flagellations!
As basic, side kick, blathering swillnutty, ironic butterfly dung beetle geeks, go carry on, swillnut mantra hoing, all on a website selling 24/7 cameras and directions to anywhere on the planet that they can get away with, to the same, no idea swillnut gronks! The same swillnut club, ‘omega 3 protein’ gobbling geeks, simultaneously screeching and shrieking about stinkin’, morally bankrupt sods exposing surf breaks anywhere on the planet that they can get away with!
Swillnuts! Ya gotta luv ‘em!
Is there anywhere that we could influence the Vals and remote covid work force to move to as the next greatest surf community? Everywhere I know of is blown but there has to be the next Hawaii, California, Australia, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, South Africa.
Can’t see a centro in any of those shots. Why live there …without a centro
Leave it to old Dez – nothing makes the phallus swell and rise with throbbing anticipation like the possibility of a massively profitable property transaction –
Lennox is fucked, the generic streetscaping in the main street was the final straw.
Even the change in shitty old Ballina is pretty wild, the yuppies, the hipsters, the fashion accessory dogs and of course the brewery with “craft beer”.
Still some crackheads and stabbings though, so that’s something.
Shearer is on probably the last little old farm that’s yet to be developed in Lennox – would be worth hitting him up for a farewell piece when it goes.
Nostalgia +
Dealing with them damn goats getting out and almost getting hit by soccer mums in Audis on Nth Ck rd.
Yes! So many over the fence sixes!
Double your money in a couple of years. That’s fucked up
Got a feeling it’s gonna back off a little…but yeah, maybe it’ll double again next year.
What’s your market prediction for surf-inspired alternative coastal lifestyle hamlets on the east coast?
Asking for a friend
god only made so much coastal real estate bruv.
I remember when one sold a few doors down just as Covid hit for $2.6 and we all thought it was crazy. It was not clearly. And it was one of the nice ones. Nothing to do.
“no balls” and “chucking” I hope.
No one chucks on my watch. Yes, many no balls.
What about the full toss?
If we kick out a few immigrants we can drop it back to pre Covid prices…
plus we have 12% of New Zealand’s entire population living here.
And they all bitch and moan about the shit things in Australia and how nz is so much better.
The grass is always greener…
And then demand that they get to vote in our elections because they pay tax. Sorry but it doesn’t work that way!
Yeah, nah, rentals maybe like in Covid. Victoria taxed hell out of investment properties and the joint has tanked. Used to be almost parity with Sydney, now cheapest capital in the country.
Feel free to remove yourself.
Xox
deport them all
Is that u katter ? bit of news for u bob we are all immigrants…
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What’s the brown thing?
see otter
see *Otto
Long Tom
An otter, suckin’ on a dick.
Some say it’s name is ‘Lengthy Thomas’…
Sea Otter chomping on a Penisfish.
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It’s an 80 million Powerball tomorrow night Derek. Then you can take your pick of the coast!
Wouldn’t choose Lennox!
Chateu le ver de flor
En france ??
Hossegor, Blueys, and a boat in Indo.
Paradise.
Lived round the corner at 65 dress circle dr. Crazy student house… never will see the same again.
Had a beachfront Queenslander on stilts on Marine Parade, Coolangatta, $165 a week, no bond. Park anywhere on the vast lawn.
nice digs
Same but asbestos hut, lennox
Breathe it in, brother!
Bong smoke mainly
Otherwise known as the “Cockroach castle.” The old Lennox is long gone unfortunately. Nowadays property developers are advertising new developments as “Lennox Heads.”
We need more downvotes in here. Its too positive it reminds me of the WSL
Sorry, I’ll fix that for you now.
I’ve been enjoying your downvoting of ol’ Gil
Time to head inland.
To the mountains!
and do what?