Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron and wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, are selling their longtime oceanfront California ranch for $33m (AU$49.1m).
Cameron, 68, had written the blockbuster movie, “Avatar,” at the ranch. He used an ocean-facing room upstairs in the house as inspiration. James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, who mostly live in New Zealand, purchased the home in the late 1990s for $4.3 million a fraction of its current market value.
Located on the Gaviota Coast of Santa Barbara County, Cameron told the Wall Street Journal they were letting go of their beloved estate, known as Hollister Ranch, since they spend most of their time in New Zealand.
The property features an 8,000 square foot main house, along with a 2,000 squarefoot guesthouse, 24,000 square foot barn and helipad. The property has a large pool surrounded by trees that overlook the ocean, plus a large garden fit for someone with a seriously green thumb.
The land has everything anyone could ever need, with two wells for drinking, irrigation water, solar wind and power capabilities.
