Cricketer Michael Clarke is trying to sell a home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Cricketer Michael Clarke, model Jen Hawkins and TV host Jamie Durie are among the celebrities who will be hoping to ink property deals in the New Year after failing to sell Sydney homes over a boisterous 2025.
These celebrities’ wait for a buyer has followed what was otherwise a big year of property moves among Australia’s rich and famous.
With the market picking up from interest rate cuts in early 2025, there were numerous celebrities who cashed in over the year with property sales or buys.
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They included broadcasters Kyle Sandilands, Lisa Wilkinson and Sonia Kruger, along with 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 acreage in Central Coast hub Terrigal in October and are still awaiting a sale.
Jennifer Hawkins. Picture: Getty Images
The Terrigal property is still up for sale.
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The couple bought the property with rolling lawns down to Avoca Lake for $6m in 2021, settling a year later. It’s understood they are currently renting nearby.
The Scenic Highway property for sale comes with an empty seven-bedroom old-English style manor, one of only a handful bordering the water.
The local chatter had been that they planned to knock down the house and build something new. There’s not been any development approval.
The Hawkins sale fail follows the ongoing drama surrounding her other high profile property in Whale Beach.
The ocean-front property has been under construction for four years, causing angst with rich neighbours who have been selling up in droves just to escape the Hawkins mega project.
Michael Clarke
Australian cricket legend Michael Clarke has listed his Vaucluse mansion with expectations above $20m but has yet to offload the home.
Clarke’s Vaucluse house remains up for sale.
Clarke is selling the five-bedroom home, bought for $13.01m in 2021, having bought a larger six-bedroom mansion with tennis court and pool for about $20m nearby.
Agent Bill Malouf, who holds the listing alongside Emma Potter, is expecting a strong response for Clarke’s current home, which has had a reno since he purchased it.
Clarke sold his former matrimonial residence with former wife Kyly for $12m in 2021.
Jamie Durie
Renowned landscaper and television personality Jamie Durie is still selling his meticulously crafted Avalon eco-compound after putting it on the market in 2025.
Jamie Durie is trying to sell an eco-compound on Sydney’s northern beaches.
Durie’s sustainable sanctuary on Sydney’s Northern Beaches has a guide of $33m.
Durie is selling after deciding to decamp to a 30-hectare farm in the Byron Bay hinterland with his partner Ameka and their children.
He acquired the circa 1000sq m Avalon Beach site for about $2.3m in 2015 and then transformed what was once a humble 1960 cottage into a six-bedroom, multi-level retreat with an ‘Enviroswim’ pool.
BIG CELEBRITY MOVES OVER THE PAST YEAR
Sonia Kruger
The TV presenter made one of the biggest celebrity deals of 2025 when she and husband Craig McPherson pocketed $19m from the sale of their Mosman home.
Sonia Kruger pocketed $19m when selling in Mosman.
Kruger bougth a home nearby. Picture: Getty Images
The couple were understood to have spent $16.1m on a nearby deceased estate near the water. Their new home was described in the listing as a “blank canvas”, indicating scope for a renovation or rebuild.
Kruger has been based in Mosman for a decade. Her new property is on a prime spot on the Balmoral slopes with views of the Harbour heads.
Pat Cummins
Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins, who will be rested during the latest Ashes clash with England, settled on an 1888 two-storey home in Bronte for $16m in 2025.
Pat Cummins and wife Becky Boston.
The heritage Bronte pictured decades ago.
The five-bedroom four-bathroom home on 730sq m, reported to be in need of renovation, was bought off market in November 2024, but only settled well into 2025.
Cummins currently lives nearby at another five-bedroom Victorian manor that he bought for $9.3m in 2021. He also owns a three- bedroom 1930s Southern Highlands cottage, bought for $905,000.
Red Wiggle Simon Pryce
Red Wiggle Simon Pryce and fitness entrepreneur wife Lauren Hannaford upsized from Clovelly, where they had previously sold for $2.52m, to a $5.7m property in Maroubra.
Pryce’s Maroubra home.
Red Wiggle Simon Pryce in Sydney. Picture: Sam Ruttyn
The mid-1970s Maroubra home has been reinvented with a Stubbs Design Tribe renovation. It has a “floating” 8.5m heated pool plus spa, five bedrooms, media room and four-car garage.
Their previous home, a 1970s Clovelly unit had been bought by Pryce for $860,000 in 2011, two years before he became the Red Wiggle.
Lisa Wilkinson
Media couple Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons sold a Cremorne home in late 2025 after downsizing to a nearby apartment.
Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons listed their Cremorne home Ingleneuk.
The sale occurred after the property passed in at a September auction. The undisclosed price was alleged to have been under the $24.5m vendor bid made at auction.
The couple had owned the 1903-built home since 1998 when they paid just under $3m. They boosted the land size by acquiring neighbouring lots. It’s understood that the 3125sq m estate had become surplus to their needs after their three children moved out.
Rebel Wilson
Actor Rebel Wilson sold an investment in Balmain in September for $2.15m, $270,000 above the price she paid 10 years ago, records showed.
Rebel Wilson has owned homes in the Balmain area. Picture: Getty Images
The Balmain unit she recently sold.
It is understood Wilson gave the 130 sqm unit a high-end renovation after buying the property in 2015 and it is not known if she made a profit off the sale once factoring in taxes and other expenses.
Wilson had lived in the unit while renovating her former three-level Birchgrove waterfront property overlooking the Parramatta River, which she sold for $9.5m in 2022.
Nick Kyrgios
Tennis player Nick Kyrgios sold a three-bedroom Sydney bolthole for $1,925,000. He had paid $1.6m for the Kensington property in 2016.
Kyrgios sold a unit in Kensington.
The tennis player bought the unit off the plan.
Kyrgios had got the kitchen renovated, installed new flooring, and given it a fresh lick of paint.
The 130sq m Anzac Parade offering, with two car spaces, was marketed as a “luxurious skyhome”.
Nathan Cleary
NRL star Nathan Cleary offloaded an investment property in Penrith for $660,000.
The near-100sq m, two-bedroom Aviators Way apartment, set close to Penrith Station, had been a rental. Cleary bought the unit in 2016 off the plan, two years before its completion.
Cleary had owned a property in this Penrith complex.
Cleary did a renovation to a home in Western Sydney.
Cleary has owned in the west since 2018 when, off the back of signing a five-year contract extension at the Panthers, he spent $1.05m on a renovated 1970s home, just a few days after his 21st birthday.
He called that home until two years ago, when there was an internal transfer of the family home into his name, at a value of $1.7m.
Kyle Sandilands
Radio king Kyle Sandilands in 2025 settled on a “fixer upper” holiday home he purchased with wife Tegan Kyaston on The Central Coast.
Kyle Sandilands, pictured with Sophie Monk. Picture: Getty Images
He also started renovations on a farmhouse he keeps as a weekender on Sydney’s northwestern outskirts.
Sandilands bought The Central Coast home overlooking Copacabana Beach for $1.8m. The listing described it as “soaked in sunlight and positioned to maximise the views”.
Vaucluse-based Sandilands confirmed on radio that he was renovating his Glenorie farmhouse after being spotted in the area at a local bakery.
KIIS FM’s Kyle Sandilands has spoken on the renovation works on his Glenorie purchase.
The all-white, eight-bedroom home was bought for $3m in 2022.
Ian Thorpe
Olympic swimming legend Ian Thorpe sold an Edgecliff apartment above the $2.8m price guide.
The price for the stylish three-bedroom apartment in the Harry Seidler-designed Arlington block was not disclosed but sources put the result at “close to $3m”.
Thorpe had bought it for $2.79m in July 2023. He still owns a four-bedroom apartment nearby, purchased in December 2017 for $2.75m.
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