Fake tan guru’s ‘Golden’ $8m Byron home

Fake tan multi-millionaire Shaun Wilson and his supercharge smoothies fiancee Tess Shanahan have scored a cracking new pad in the heart of Byron Bay.

Fake tan guru Shaun Wilson from Bondi Sands has a new $8.3m Byron Bay home. Source: Instagram

Bondi Sands co-founder Shaun Wilson has poured some of the proceeds of the sale of the fake-tanning products company into Byron Bay’s high-end property market.

Byron has certainly a place in the heart of the Melbourne-based Wilson. He proposed to his fiancee, the supercharge smoothies entrepreneur Tess Shanahan, at the coastal hotspot last year.

The couple then returned to the beach to announce to their Instagram followers that they’re expecting their first child, due in August.

Wilson, who with co-founder Blair James sold the Bondi Sand company to Japanese beauty giant Kao Group for $450m last year, has spent $8.26m on a six-bedroom home in what local agents call Byron’s Golden Grid near town.

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Shaun Wilson from Bondi Sands has bought at Byron. Picture: realestate.com.au

The house won a North Coast HIA Best Renovation award for builder Ian Heanes. Picture: realestate.com.au

The house on an elevated 1010sq m block won a North Coast HIA Best Renovation award for builder Ian Heanes.

The home features open-plan living areas with Tallow Wood flooring, a kitchen with butler’s pantry, integrated Liebherr fridge and Ilve oven, and an entertaining area with pizza oven, barbecue and sunken firepit area. A self-contained studio overlooks the saltwater pool and spa.

The purchase comes just a few months after the couple sold their landmark Kew home Lalla-Rookh.

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The entertaining area, adjacent to the saltwater pool, has a pizza oven, barbecue and sunken firepit area. Picture: realestate.com.au

The best of Byron Bay living. Source: realestate.com.au

The home dates back to the 1880s. Source: realestate.com.au

Plenty of room for real tanning. Source: realestate.com.au

The home, dating back to the late 1880s, was named after an Oriental poem written by the Irish poet Thomas Moore in 1817.

The couple are now undertaking a new build in Brighton, documenting the journey, dubbed Project No. 4, on Instagram. They’ve had McKimm design the home.

Other recent buyers at Byron include the hospitality industry billionaire Justin Hemmes, with his third residential property on the Belongil peninsula.

None of the three Hemmes’ holdings are adjoining.

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Tess Shanahan and Shaun Wilson. Source: Instagram

His latest dress-circle purchase, that cost $3.1m, is a two-bedroom cottage on 300sq m on Belongil Creek overlooking the estuary that had been listed with $3.75m hopes. The Vaucluse hotelier secured his first property on the beachside of Childe St for $16m in February last year, then added another Childe St holding overlooking the beach for $22m in May last year.

Hemmes owns two commercial premises in the town, with the initial foray in 2021 costing $11.5m, and then adding next door for $11.9m last year.

Hemmes also has a collection of five homes dating back to 2006 at Berrara on the NSW south coast, and a coastal retreat at Narooma.

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