Actor Guy Pearce’s stunning ‘double home’ for sale for around $9m
Actor Guy Pearce has listed his long-term, character-filled home in one of Melbourne’s favourite streets. See what it might sell for.
Actor Guy Pearce has listed his long-term, character-filled home in one of Australia’s favourite streets.
The Middle Park listing comes just a few months after Pearce had put it up for lease at $3500 a week.
The offering is two connected double-fronted red brick Edwardian era homes. The price guidance is $8.5m to $9.35m.
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Set on 748sq m, the four-bedroom, two-bathroom Richardson St home with a study comes with a central glass breezeway.
There is open-plan living and dining space, plus a media room.
The yard has a studio.
Jellis Craig Port Phillip agents Simon Gowling and Max Mercuri have listed it for Geelong-born Pearce, who was recently reportedly living in Amsterdam with Dutch partner, Game of Thrones star Carice van Houten, and their six-year-old son Monte.
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Pearce acquired the initial Middle Park property for $361,000 in 1995, with the neighbouring house costing $1.35m in 2004. The homes were redesigned to connect.
The neighbouring home was another acquisition until its $4.2m sale, having been bought in 2017 at $4.1m.
Pearce, who starred in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and L.A. Confidential, also sold his house at Beremboke, in regional Victoria, for $1.27m last year.
The Peter McIntyre-designed home on 7ha had cost $1.2m in 2021.
Pearce sold his Cheddington, Elizabeth Bay, unit through Susan Shaw Real Estate in conjunction with Tracey McArdle Real Estate for $319,000 in 2001.
The one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment, in the Emil Sodersten-designed 1930s Spanish Mission style complex, was bought for $178,000 in 1994.
Pearce’s most recent work was the Disney+ series The Clearing, which had parallels to the regional Victorian cult led by Anne and Bill Hamilton-Byrne from 1963 to 1987, with its child members having bleached hair and drugged with LSD.
According to PropTrack the median house price in Middle Park, Melbourne is $2.485m, down 14.8 per cent over the past 12 months.
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