The celebrity property market is cooling as A-listers wait for inky deals

Cricketer Michael Clarke, model Jen Hawkins and TV presenter Jamie Durie are among the celebrities who will be hoping to put real estate ink in the new year after failing to sell Sydney houses due to the 2025 crisis.

The wait for these celebrity buyers followed what has been a years-long war between Australia’s rich and famous.

As the market begins to reduce interest rates at the beginning of 2025, there were many celebrities who entered during the year by selling or buying properties.

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They include broadcasters Kyle Sandilands, Lisa Wilkinson and Sonia Kruger, and sports stars Pat Cummins and Nick Kyrgios, among many others.

STILL WAITING TO SELL

Jennifer Hawkins

Jennifer Hawkins-Wall and husband Jake quietly listed their property in Central Coast hub Terrigal in October and are still waiting to sell.

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The couple bought a grassy property backing onto Avoca Lake for $6m in 2021, and moved in a year later. It is understood that they are currently hiring nearby.

The property for sale on the Scenic Highway comes with a seven-bedroom detached house in an old English style, one of the few on the water’s edge.

Local talk was that they were planning to demolish the house and build something new. There was no development approval.

Michael Clarke

Australian cricket legend Michael Clarke has listed his Vaucluse mansion for more than $20m but has yet to sell the house.

Clarke is selling the five-bedroom home, which was bought for $13.01m in 2021, having bought a larger six-bedroom mansion with a tennis court and pool for about $20m nearby.

Agent Bill Malouf, who manages the listing alongside Emma Potter, is expecting a strong response to Clarke’s current home, which has been popular since she bought it.

Clarke sold his former residence with ex-wife Kylie for $12m in 2021.

Jamie Durie

Renowned landscape architect and television personality Jamie Durie is still selling his meticulously designed Avalon eco-compound after putting it on the market in 2025.

Durie’s sanctuary living on Sydney’s Northern Beaches has a guide of $33m.

Durie is selling after deciding to farm a 30-hectare farm in Byron Bay with his partner Ameka and their children.

He acquired an almost 1000sq m property in Avalon Beach for around $2.3m in 2015 and converted the former 1960s cottage into a six-bedroom, multi-level lodge with an ‘Enviroswim’ pool.

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Sonia Kruger

The TV presenter made one of the biggest celebrity deals of 2025 when she and husband Craig McPherson netted $19m by selling their Mosman home.

The couple is said to have spent $16.1m on the property near the deceased near the water. Their new home is described in the listing as a “blank canvas”, showing the scope for renovation or rebuilding.

Kruger has been based in Mosman for ten years. His new property is in a prime location on the slopes of Balmoral with views across the harbour.

Pat Cummins

Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins, who will retire during the Ashes against England, 1888 settled on a two-storey home in Bronte for $16m in 2025.

A 730sq m four-bedroom, four-bathroom house, reportedly in need of renovation, was bought on the market in November 2024, but was successfully occupied in 2025.

Cummins currently lives next door to another five-bedroom Victorian manor which he is buying for $9.3m in 2021. He also owns a three-bedroom 1930s Southern Highlands home, bought for $905,000.

Red Wiggle Simon Pryce

Red Wiggle Simon Pryce and fitness entrepreneur wife Lauren Hannaford have moved up from Clovelly, where they previously sold for $2.52m, to a $5.7m property in Maroubra.

In the mid-1970s the Maroubra home was reinvented with renovations by Stubbs Design Tribe. It has an 8.5m “floating” heated pool and spa, five bedrooms, a media room and a four-car garage.

Their former home, a 1970s Clovelly unit, was bought by Pryce for $860,000 in 2011, two years before he became a Red Wiggle.

Lisa Wilkinson

Media couple Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons sold their Cremorne home in late 2025 after demolishing a nearby flat.

The sale came after the property went through a September auction. The undisclosed price was said to be below the seller’s $24.5m bid at auction.

The couple have owned the 1903 home since 1998 when they paid just under $3m. They increase the size of the world by acquiring neighboring areas. It is understood that the 3125sq m area has become surplus to their needs after their three children have moved out.

Wilson rebelled

Actor Rebel Wilson sold an investment in Balmain in September for $2.15m, $270,000 more than he paid 10 years ago, records show.

It is understood that Wilson gave the 130 sqm unit a high-end renovation after buying the property in 2015 and it is not known if he made a profit from the sale as well as taxes and other costs.

Wilson lived in the unit while renovating his former three-level waterfront property in Birchgrove overlooking the Parramatta River, which he is selling for $9.5m in 2022.

Nick Kyrgios

Tennis player Nick Kyrgios has sold a three-bedroom Sydney bolthole for $1,925,000. He had paid $1.6m for the Kensington property in 2016.

Kyrgios had remodeled the kitchen, installed new flooring, and given it a fresh coat of paint.

The 130sq m Anzac Parade offering, with spaces for two cars, was marketed as a “luxury sky home”.

Nathan Cleary

NRL star Nathan Cleary has snapped up an investment property in Penrith for $660,000.

A 100sq m, two bedroom flat on Aviators Way, close to Penrith Station, previously rented. Cleary bought the unit in 2016 off-plan, two years before its completion.

Cleary has been in charge in the west since 2018 when, after signing a five-year deal with the Panthers, he spent $1.05m on a renovated 1970s home, just days after his 21st birthday.

He called that home until two years ago, when there was a transfer of the family home in his name, valued at $1.7m.

Kyle Sandilands

Radio tycoon Kyle Sandilands in 2025 settled into a “renovated upper” holiday home he bought with wife Tegan Kyaston on the Central Coast.

He also began renovating the farmhouse he kept as a weekender on the north-western outskirts of Sydney.

Sandilands bought The Central Coast home overlooking Copacabana Beach for $1.8m. The listing described it as “sun-drenched and positioned to maximize views”.

Vaucluse-based Sandilands confirmed on radio that he was renovating his Glenorie farmhouse after being spotted at a local bakery.

The stark white, eight-bedroom home was bought for $3m ​​in 2022.

Ian Thorpe

Olympic swimming legend Ian Thorpe has sold an Edgecliff apartment above the guide price of $2.8m.

The price of the stylish three-bedroom apartment in Arlington designed by Harry Seidler was not disclosed but sources put the result at “$3m”.

Thorpe bought it for $2.79m in July 2023. He still owns a four-bedroom house nearby, bought in December 2017 for $2.75m.