Block judge Darren Palmer revels in $11m payday

Patience has paid off for one of the The Block judges after a standoff finally paid out $11 million.

Darren Palmer is a judge on The Block. Picture: Instagram,

The Block judge Darren Palmer and his cosmetics industry operative husband Olivier Duvillard have finally sold their Bondi Beach home. It fetched around $8.25m through Alexander Phillips and Vince Licata from PPD. Their patience paid off as it had been pulled from auction in April when its price guidance was $7.95m.

The four-bedroom, four-bathroom Sir Thomas Mitchell Rd home, a three storey house cocooned by jungle-like plantings, had initially been listed last September with other agents.

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Darren Palmer, and Olivier Duvillard.

Palmer and Duvillard bought what was a 1930s California bungalow in 2015, paying $2.98m, before undertaking a rebuild in 2022 in collaboration with architect John Deuchrass with a coastal minimalist style.

“This is actually the longest-term house I’ve had in my entire life, except for when I was a child,” Palmer told Home Beautiful in January.

PPD’s Phillips secured the sale – a street record – to a database buyer on the first day of the new financial year.

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The home is a short walk from Bondi Beach.

It sold for a street record.

Of $8.25m

One of the four bedrooms.

Last financial year the Phillips team secured 186 sales, worth $943m.

His 2024 calendar year sales tally, which put him as Australia’s top seller for the 10th consecutive time, had a $962m tally from 196 sales in 2024, according to the Real Estate Business (REB) industry website rankings.

The Palmer/Duvillard couple also recently sold their Byron Bay retreat to Candice Rose O’Rourke, the founder of the Zulu & Zephyr lifestyle brand, and her husband Josh O’Rourke for $2.6m.

Located just 100m from Tallow Beach, it came with a path to the beach from its back gate.

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Palmer also just sold his Byron Bay home.

For $2.6m

Originally published as Block judge Darren Palmer revels in $11m payday