Jamie Durie sells Bilgola house for $3.8 million

Jamie Durie has sold his Bilgola house for $3.8 million after dropping the price.

Landscape-designer-turned-reality-host Jamie Durie has sold his Bilgola home for about $3.8 million after he dropped his initial price hopes of beating the suburb record.

Durie built the dramatic residence as a collaboration with the designer and architect Walter Barda, and features luxury add-ons such as a sauna, gym, yoga room, pool and rooftop deck. Durie had also included his signature vertical and suspended gardens.

Having bought the 614-square-metre property in 2003 for $1.3 million, Durie listed it last September with initial hopes of topping the suburb's non-beachfront record of $4.4 million set in 2013 for a house on Bilgola Avenue.

Before the property was sold the listing agents Ken Jacobs, of Christie's International, and Bill Eames, of LJ Hooker Avalon, dropped the asking price to $3.75 million-plus. Neither agent would disclose the sale result, leaving it to a source to reveal the result.

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Durie offloaded the house because of his growing commitments in the United States, where his new series Outback Nation starts next month.

The sale coincides with a price adjustment on another Bilgola property, the Iain Halliday-redesigned Stone House, owned by liquidator Ian Ferrier and Joanne May who first listed it in November also with hopes of topping the $4.4 million suburb record.

The landscape-designer-turned-reality-host has growing commitments in the US. Photo: Supplied

The 1927-built sandstone house was bought by Ferrier and May, the mother of hotelier Ben May, in 2001 for $2.1 million, and the adjoining 1200 square metres added the following year for $725,000.

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Jamie Durie sells Bilgola house for $3.8 million