Ever questioned what it’s wish to get up in a house the place film scripts have been memorised, chart-topping hits have been composed, or red-carpet outfits have been deliberate?
Now’s your likelihood to swap your on a regular basis digs for a slice of celeb luxurious.
Throughout Australia – and the globe, a rising variety of A-listers are opening their doorways –properly, their second or third doorways – to friends searching for a style of the excessive life.
From beachfront mansions with infinity swimming pools to secluded hinterland retreats dripping with designer touches, these celebrity-owned properties provide greater than only a place to relaxation your head.
They’re an invite to reside like the celebs, if just for a weekend.
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Able to roll out the pink carpet for your self?
Right here’s your information to essentially the most dazzling celeb properties you may hire over the summer season vacation – together with a handful of different listings the place you’ll have to attend your flip for the present tenants to maneuver out.
Daniel Johns retro beachside shack
Considered one of Newcastle’s most recognisable properties, a Nineteen Sixties seashore shack owned by former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns, might take your subsequent vacation expertise to a rock-star degree.
Overlooking Merewether Seaside, the two-bedroom, two-bathroom property is listed at $450 per evening (off season) and nonetheless has a number of availabilities over the summer season break, notably in mid to late January.
This incudes January 18 to twenty – with a two-night keep seeking to set you again $1,143.75.
Whereas the property remained largely untouched for many years, a latest exterior makeover hinted at plans for the mid-century gem.
Behind its vibrant pink and blue facade, the Airbnb itemizing reveals a putting renovation with daring interiors and creative aptitude.
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Daniel Johns of the band Silverchair performs on the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Pageant in 2018.
Daniel Johns retro beachside shack has been listed for hire on Airbnb. Supply: Airbnb
The house comes with ocean views and a vibrant inside. Supply: Airbnb
The only-level house options floor-to-ceiling home windows providing uninterrupted ocean views. The lounge retains its unique stone mantelpiece and fireside, paired with deep blue velvet couches and a sound system.
Friends are welcomed with a curated playlist to set the vacation temper.
The bedrooms embrace one with balcony entry, ocean views, and pop art-inspired wallpaper that includes music icons like Mick Jagger and Debbie Harry. The retro sage inexperienced rest room combines unique particulars with trendy updates.
Property information present Johns purchased the home in 1996 for $645,000, throughout Silverchair’s rise to fame following the success of their debut single Tomorrow.
On the time, the band’s estimated gross earnings in 1995 have been $6.4 million, in keeping with the Australian Monetary Assessment.
Megan Gale’s Dollywood escape
Step right into a world of Previous Hollywood glamour fused with Dolly Parton allure at this extraordinary Airbnb, owned by Australian mannequin and actress Megan Gale.
Situated within the idyllic Victorian spa city of Daylesford, Megan’s pink palace is a Palm Springs-inspired retreat that guarantees a trendy and unforgettable escape.
Megan, 50, allegedly first fell in love with this enchanting vacation house throughout a household keep in 2018 and has since opened its doorways for others to expertise the magic of Dollywood.
Megan Gale has listed her Daylesford vacation rental on Airbnb. Image: David Caird
The renovated Forties cottage is named Dollywood. Supply: Airbnb
The house’s cosy inside. Supply: Airbnb
The renovated Forties cottage is a shocking bungalow that radiates classic allure and timeless class.
Full with a report participant and built-in audio system all through, it presents a nostalgic but luxurious atmosphere.
With 4 spacious bedrooms, the property comfortably accommodates as much as six friends, making it excellent for households or small teams searching for a singular getaway.
A two-night minimal keep applies at a value of, roughly, $595.50, per evening, in keeping with a list’s search.
The house presently has availabilities subsequent week, up till December 18 and most of January.
Edwina Bartholomew’s Warramba Home
Edwina Bartholomew is not any stranger to formidable renovations.
The 42-year-old tv presenter has already breathed new life into an Eighteen Nineties farmhouse within the Better Blue Mountains, and now she’s tackling her most daring challenge but – a 177-year-old constructing in Carcoar, Central NSW. As soon as a crumbling relic, it’s set to change into a spectacular boutique resort.
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Edwina Bartholomew and her husband Neil Varcoe are renovating an outdated pub within the NSW city of Carcoar.
Bartholomew’s Warramba home, which is offered for hire. Supply: Airbnb
One of many house’s bedrooms. Supply: Airbnb
Nevertheless, you don’t have to attend to name Bartholomew you landlady, with the Aussie celeb having listed her first renovation, Warramba, a three-bedroom Eighteen Nineties homestead, for hire on Airbnb.
Accomplished in 2017, the property combines timeless nation allure with trendy comforts, providing friends gorgeous views of the Blue Mountains.
Costs begin at $700 per evening for {couples} – with a further $150 for every visitor.
The house presently has availabilities between January 10 and 15 and January 19 and 27.
Karl and Jasmine Stefanovic’s Queensland villa
Karl Stefanovic typically escapes the hustle of breakfast tv with journeys to the Sunshine Coast, and it’s simple to see why he and his spouse Jasmine are so enamoured with the realm.
Their gorgeous vacation retreat, Villa Isabelle, is offered to hire on Airbnb, providing friends an opportunity to expertise its luxurious allure.
Perched atop a cliff with sweeping views of Noosa’s Sunshine Seaside, the five-bedroom, five-bathroom villa is “architecturally designed” and comfortably sleeps as much as 12 folks.
Excellent for giant teams, it combines a trendy seaside location with trendy interiors, making it a perfect selection for a high-end getaway.
Karl Stefanovic and spouse Jasmine Stefanovic. Image Instagram
The couple’s Queensland vacation house might be rented for $2000 an evening. Supply: Airbnb
It could be costly but it surely does include superb views. Supply: Airbnb
Unfold throughout three expansive ranges, the house is designed for entertaining. It options an open-plan kitchen, a spacious eating and residing space, and sliding doorways that result in the pool and out of doors entertaining areas.
With its golden seashore views and complex design, it’s simple to image Karl unwinding with a chilly VB in hand, absorbing the relaxed coastal vibe.
However if you wish to observe in his footsteps, it’ll price you with a listings search revealing the house rents, on common, between $1654 and $2000 an evening.
The house is presently for hire between January 28 and 31, with a three-night keep setting you again $4,961, in keeping with stayz.com.au
Miriam Margolyes’s Bondi rental
Being a landlord is just not all the time enjoyable – or simple. Simply ask Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes who was reportedly struggling to search out renters for her $1300-a-week Bondi semi in June this yr.
In keeping with Sky Information, the dated property failed to draw tenants greater than three weeks after being listed on realestate.com.au in June, with some fb customers labelling the property as too costly.
The 84-year-old British-Australian actress, recognized for her position as Professor Sprout within the Harry Potter franchise, bought the 167-square-metre property in 1984 for $93,000.
Miriam Margolyes in Tasmania.
Margolyes listed her Bondi house for $1,300 every week. Image: realestate.com.au
The house’s kitchen. Supply: Realestate.com.au
There is no such thing as a parking, and the interiors seem untouched since Margolyes first acquired the house.
It’s unclear whether or not the house is now tenanted with the property now listed as “off market” on-line.
Margolyes, who grew to become an Australian citizen in 2013, additionally owns an opulent rural retreat in Robertson, within the NSW Southern Highlands, known as Yarrawa Hill.
The property, which she rents out for $500 per evening for 2 folks, has lengthy served as her Aussie sanctuary.
Yarrawa Hill is absolutely booked over the varsity holidays however has availabilities from February 16.
King Charles’s royal retreat
King Charles has turned a royal retreat at Sandringham into a fancy £6,300 ($AU13,000)-a-week vacation house open to all.
In keeping with The Solar, the British monarch refurbished the three-bed Victorian home The Folly.
As soon as the love-nest of Edward VII and his mistress Lillie Langtry, the property is alleged to characteristic royal artefacts, to be fitted out “to the very best customary” and mixing “timeless heritage with refined, up to date consolation”, can sleep as much as six.
King Charles can apparently add landlord to his resume.
His royal retreat at Sandringham might be leased for round $13,000 every week.
Situated on the non-public woodland of the property in Norfolk, holiday-makers can now observe within the footsteps of royalty by staying within the retreat.
Guests keen to fork out £6,300 ($A13,000) every week – the going charge within the college holidays – can go up the fairytale-like turret to look out over the property.
In keeping with reserving web page Oliver’s Travels, The Folly nonetheless has availabilities between December 27 and 30 and most of January.
Sarah Jessica Parker’s modest Hamptons house
Intercourse and the Metropolis starlet Sarah Jessica Parker can be no stranger to letting our her house.
The actresses 1200-square-foot, ocean-side cabin in Amagansett, NY, has made headlines for a variety of years for being marketed for hire on reserving.com throughout the summer season months.
Boasting three bedrooms and one rest room, the house has beforehand been marketed with a worth information of $144,000 (US$95,000) from Memorial Day by Labour Day, in keeping with realtor.com.
Every bed room is spacious and boasts giant home windows.
In the meantime, the shared rest room sports activities a captivating, old-school pale-pink sink and butter-yellow tiled partitions.
Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw within the second season of And Simply Like That. Image: Binge
Parker is thought for leasing out her modest Hampton’s house throughout the summer season months.
The house’s cosy most important residing house.
The property additionally has an enclosed yard with an outsized deck; a barbecue space; and huge, inexperienced garden. It’s an ideal house for entertaining.
Parker rose to superstardom as Carrie Bradshaw within the hit HBO sequence “Intercourse and the Metropolis.”
She additionally starred on the large display screen in “Honeymoon in Vegas,” “Miami Rhapsody,” and “Failure to Launch” and has had quite a few stints on Broadway.
Her position as Bradshaw earned her two Emmys and 4 Golden Globe Awards.
The house is just not for hire over the summer season vacation.
Past Airbnb and different reserving businesses, a variety of Aussie celebs have additionally been recognized to take their investments to the non-public rental market.
Ian Thorpe’s Woollahra residence
Olympic legend Ian Thorpe has turned landlord, renting out his luxurious Woollahra townhouse for a reported $1850 every week after struggling to promote it.
Thorpe purchased the four-bedroom, three-level property in 2017 for $2.75m. Regardless of its prime location and options like a communal heated pool and tropical gardens, the house didn’t promote at auctions in 2023, passing in on a vendor bid of $3.95m.
Ian Thorpe has turned landlord after failing to promote his luxurious Woollahra townhouse. Image Rohan Kelly
After all the house comes with a pool.
In October 2024, the residence was relisted with a decreased worth information of $3.5m however reportedly once more didn’t promote.
Now a rental, the townhouse presents 164sqm of indoor and 52sqm of out of doors residing. In the meantime, Thorpe has moved on, buying a brand new $2.79 million residence in Edgecliff.
The swimming icon, who retired in 2006, stays considered one of Australia’s best athletes, with 5 Olympic gold medals and a legacy that continues to shine.
Troy Cassar-Daley;s Queensland seashore home
Nation music legend Troy Cassar-Daley additionally made headlines final yr after itemizing his Queensland seashore home for a surprisingly reasonably priced rental worth on realestate.com.au as he travelled the nation on his Between The Fires tour.
The 2-storey three-bedroom beachfront house was obtainable for a six month lease interval, with hire set at simply $600 every week, a surprisingly reasonably priced sum given the present tight emptiness charges all throughout the state.
Troy Cassar Daley additionally beforehand leaded out his Queensland cottage.
The traditional Queensland cottage was set on a 455sq m waterfront block, with the garden rolling straight onto the sand.
“You’ll be able to’t get a lot nearer to the water than this splendidly positioned seashore cottage,” was how his actual property agent described it.
