Yorke Peninsula off-grid luxury retreat The Dunes hits market
One of South Australia’s most unique coastal retreats, a fully off-grid luxury resort-style home on the Yorke Peninsula, is about to hit the market.
One of South Australia’s most unique coastal retreats, a fully off-grid luxury resort-style home on the Yorke Peninsula, is about to hit the market via a local and international private treaty campaign.
Designed by renowned architect Max Pritchard, who was responsible for the award-winning Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island, The Dunes, fronting 2km of pristine coastline, and about two hours northwest of Adelaide, is accessible by helicopter, car or boat from Adelaide.
The 110ha property fronting 400 Coopers Beach Rd, Nalyappa was built in 2014 and features six bedrooms, five bathrooms and a dune-buggy racetrack, as well as access to boardwalks through the surrounding sand dunes.
Developed over 875sq m, there are also spacious lounge areas, a theatre, a chef’s kitchen with two butler’s pantries, a spa, pool, sauna plus a sun deck as well as an outdoor alfresco terrace.
Contemporary Hotels Group chief executive Matthew Fleming said The Dunes, which specialises in ultra-premium hotel style stays, was a perfect example of what celebrity clients wanted.
“The Dunes represents everything that is classic South Australia; a remote, rugged landscape which to a first explorer would have seemed worlds apart, but to a visionary architect the perfect place to create a masterpiece,” Mr Fleming said.
The Dunes owner, South Australian-based former CEO Peter Michell, has appointed Deborah Cullen of Cullen Royle and Grant Giordano of Giordano & Partners to sell the property.
Mr Michell said he was selling because the property was a completed project, but he said he could imagine so much more.
“I don’t really want to sell it, but it is time for the next thing and I want more people to enjoy the energy and peace of this space,” said Mr Michell, the former head of a fifth-generation family wool business.
Mr Michell said he often made crab pasta for dinner after catching crabs in the afternoon and often paddled out to say hello to the local seal on his stand-up paddle board.
Ms Cullen describes the resort, which features an 80kW solar power plant funnelled into lithium batteries as well as 300,000 litres of water storage, as a visionary property.
“It was created to provide a retreat and for family and friends to gather or to escape from city life, and we are finding that buyers are increasingly looking for just that,” she said.
“They want a home in lieu of travelling overseas and as an escape from dense urban cities, particularly now with the ability to live and work from anywhere, but they can holiday-let when it’s is not in use.”
Mr Giordano said The Dunes had been fiercely protected as a private family compound until now. “This is one of South Australia’s most unique coastal estates,” he said.
The Dunes also has an aquaponics geo-dome for vegetables and herbs, providing an all-year-round food garden plus a 45,000 litre fish tank stocked with more than 60 silver perch.
The agents were reluctant to put a price guide on the property, but expectations are understood to be about $10m.