Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale buys $6m home in Byron Bay

Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale will be headlining Blues on Broadbeach. Picture: Supplied

Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale has upgraded in Byron Bay with wife Jude.

The 49-year-old musician has spent $6.22m on Rachana, a new home in Byron’s ‘Golden Grid’, just a few blocks from the town centre.

The three-level home has five bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a library on the lower level.

There are 180-degree views from the ocean to the mountain ranges.

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Andrew Stockdale has bought at Byron Bay with wife Jude. Picture: realestate.com.au

The local Sothebys office sold the home on 507sq m after four months on the market.

It was builder Napoleon Perdis, founding director of Piper Property Group, who undertook the project. He secured $12.65m across his two new builds with the other home set on a 1,012 sqm parcel sold at its $6.3m asking price.

Chris Hemsworth lives in Byron Bay with his family. Picture: Instagram

Perdis purchased the now strata duplex holding for $913,000 in 2012.

Stockdale has owned at Byron Bay since paying $1.6m in 2013 for a single-storey 2008-built weatherboard residence. The rock musician gave it a stylish $96,000 makeover in 2016.

He has also owned investment property at the nearby Bangalow village.

The Byron Bay region is home to many celebrities including Chris Hemsworth, who lives there with is wife Elsa Pataky and their children, and Hollywood actor Zac Efron, who purchased a property in the Glenferrie area in 2020.

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In 2021 Stockdale spent $2.7m on the Bangalow investment, securing retail premises on the town’s main boulevard. The 607 sqm Byron St premises has six retail and commercial tenancies.

Andrew and Jude Stockdale’s new Byron Bay home has 180-degree views from the ocean to the mountain ranges. Picture: realestate.com.au

The home cost $6.2m.

The mandatory pool.

Great for entertaining.

Wolfmother is most famous for its hit song Joker & the Thief, which was released two decades ago.

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Wolfmother doing their thing. Picture: Getty

The first album was an international success, reaching No. 3 in Australia, No. 22 in the US and 25 in the UK. Wolfmother still tour.

“I pretty much play 1000 to 1500 capacity venues in Australia, Europe or America and that’s what I have been doing for 20 years,” Stockdale told Noise11.com in February.

He is also reportedly spending time in the studio working on new music.

Meanwhile, Wolfmother drummer Hamish Rosser and his wife, Kristy, have sold their Clunes acreage for $2.5m.

The five-bedroom, two-bathroom house on 1.9ha had decor done by local interior designer Louella Boitel-Gill, who blended modern function with old-world charm.

The Rossers, who purchased the property in October 2020 for $1.375m, are making the move to Bangalow where they have bought for $2,175,000.

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They have secured a 100-year-old four-bedroom, two-bathroom Queenslander home.

After 51 sales in the past 12 months, PropTrack calculate the median Bangalow home at $1,625,000 compared with Byron’s $2.5m, with 77 sales.

Bangalow hit its $2,012,000 peak in mid-2022 with Byron Bay hitting its $3.5m peak twice in 2022.

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