Byron Bay Rents Surge
The coveted coastal location saw rents rise by 32% in 12 months.
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Renting in regional locations has surged in the last 12 months, with the celebrity-filled Byron Bay seeing a rise of over 32% in rents in the past 12 months.
The result is five times the annual rental growth of the past five years with higher demand and limited stock fuelling the rise.
Over the past 12 months, weekly rents in Byron Bay climbed to $1150 for houses and $806 for unites – overtaking the $1083 and $797 rents for Sydney houses and units respectively, according to analysis by CoreLogic.
The sharp increase is caused by a lack of rental property supply with the area seeing just 60 properties available last month, compared to the 177 available in April of 2020.
It’s not only the Byron Bay market feeling the pinch with tight vacancies and strong demand also seeing sharp increases for houses in locales like Ulladulla on the NSW South Coast. Here, rents grew by 28.4% over the year due to rental listings falling from 228 in April of 2020 to just 73.
Outside of NSW, Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia notched a 28.1% rental rise while Buderim on the Sunshine coast saw rents climb 26.1%.
Further, locations like Kingscliff on the Tweed Coast (28.1%) and Noosaville on the Sunshine Coast (25.3%) are also experience rental rising.
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A 110-year-old Colorado estate that has hosted Frank Sinatra and Lyndon B. Johnson just slashed $10 million off its price tag.
The 12,000-square-foot manor house—with 25 rooms—and its five accessory dwelling in the alpines of Evergreen was relisted on Friday asking $16.8 million, down from its initial $26.8 million price in 2023.
The sellers, Richard and Pamela Bard, who paid $1.3 million for the “legacy property” named Greystone Estate in 1992, have shopped it around on and off for the past 20 years, according to agent Jessica Northrop at Compass Real Estate.
Richard Bard, CEO of his own private equity firm, has “hosted many corporate events and retreats where important business is discussed but they are also able to relax,” Northrop said. “Greystone has a special way of making people feel at ease.”
Bard said “it’s not a casual effort” to sell. He said it’s difficult to find a buyer with the facilities to “take care of it.”
The Bards intend to move closer to their children in Denver.
Before the Bards, Greystone Estate had several eras—as a summer house, a guest ranch and a business base—since it was built in 1915 by Genevieve Phipps, an industrialist’s daughter.
Phipps, who spent her inheritance on the land, built the 54-acre summer escape with the “elegance and feel of a fine Adirondack mansion combined with a mountain rustic style,” according to an online record of the estate’s history.
Its heyday, arguably in the 1940s to 1980s, saw Sinatra, Johnson and Groucho Marx come through its doors, when its owner William Sandifer, a socialite and one the Empire State Building’s architects, operated a guest ranch out of the place.
The Bards, who used a carriage house on the property as their company headquarters, completed Greystone’s full modernization in 1997. They also opened up the living and dining areas to receive more light, raised the ceiling on the upper level and combined several rooms to create a primary suite.
They replaced an outdoor pavilion and its helipad with something more suitable for their daughter’s wedding in 2001, according to Northrop.
The main 25-room manor includes a wine cellar, bar, gym and library.
The additional structures, which include a cottage, a log cabin, a pool house, a carriage house and a pavilion and guest house, surround the pool area and overlook acres of aspen groves and mountains.
Renovations in Yorkshire included the revamp of a 30-room wing where a descendant of the estate’s builder still lives.
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