A local buyer from Malabar has paid $3.366m for the Sydney home of Pete Evans.
Controversial chef Pete Evans and his wife Nicola Robinson have sold their luxury southeastern Sydney home ahead of a move to Byron Bay.
The five-bedroom Malabar property with a skateboard half-pipe, a lap pool and a four-person spa sold at auction on Saturday for $166,000 above the reserve at $3.366m to a local buyer.
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Auctioneer Damien Cooley received a $3m bid to open the auction in front of a sizeable socially distanced crowd.
A relaxing retreat for the whole family.
Three of the five registered parties traded several dozen bids between them during the course auction that took place at the front of the Austral Street house.
Listed with NG Farah Real Estate’s Peter Goulding and Theo Karangis, the property had plenty of interest from locals and other Sydney-based buyers during the campaign.
The controversial Evans is selling up ahead of a move to the NSW north coast, where he has a multimillion-dollar health retreat. He will soon be opening a healing clinic in Byron’s new commercial precinct, The Habitat.
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Chef Pete Evans is planning to move to Byron Bay with his wife. Picture: Tara Croser.
Backyard fun for the whole family.
Property records show that Evans purchased the property near Malabar beach in 2014 for $1.27m before building a new house in 2018.
The home, on a 588sqm block, also has a wellness studio with infrared sauna and a tea room, while there are Tesla solar panels and a powerwall in the double garage.
As expected, the kitchen is at the heart of the home while there is also an edible garden with herbs.
The swimming pool.
Evans was axed from his rumoured $800,000 a year gig on Channel 7’s My Kitchen Rules realty program in May. He had been on the show for all 11 seasons since 2010.
The news came not long after Evans and Robinson sold their other Malabar home in an off-market deal worth $2.76 million.
Evens has come under fire during the coronavirus pandemic for plugging a $15,000 device known as a biocharger to help cure COVID-19.
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