Sydney property where actor Yahoo Serious squatted before becoming homeless listed for $1.9 million.

The multi-million dollar Sydney home once at the centre of a bizarre standoff with former film star Yahoo Serious has officially been listed for sale.

The 1,157sqm Palm Beach cottage, which Serious famously refused to vacate despite a tribunal order, is now being offered at auction with a guide of $1.9 million.

Known for its treetop setting and filtered views over the boat-studded Pittwater, the home has been tightly held by the same family for more than 60 years.

The property offers a rare opportunity for buyers with an eye for potential and features three bedrooms with built-in robes, a timber-finished kitchen at the heart of the home and scope to renovate or rebuild (STCA). 

While it can be lived in immediately, the property also presents a prime prospect for savvy builders or keen renovators hoping to capitalise on the stunning locale.

Its desirable location is just minutes from beaches, Avalon Village, and is also close to a variety of amenities, including public transport, sporting fields and the scenic Currawong Avenue Reserve. 

The house drew national attention earlier this year when Serious, 72, was accused of squatting there with his Jack Russell terrier while the property’s owner, 90-year-old Charles Phillip Porter, was in a nursing home.

Despite a NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal order requiring him to leave by August 4, Serious remained in the home for weeks, claiming he was ‘surviving’ rather than squatting.

Now back on the market, the property offers potential buyers a chance to own a piece of Sydney’s northern beaches history.

In August, it was reported that a defiant Serious refused to leave the multi-million dollar Sydney home he had been accused of squatting in.

Serious appeared on A Current Affair, when the landlord responsible for the property came to confront the former film star.

Margaret Charlton is the landlord and holds power of attorney for the home’s owner. 

She told ACA she needed to sell the property to pay for Porter’s mounting nursing home fees.

Reading from a court order, Margaret said: ‘The order for possession is suspended until the fourth of August… which means I get the property back.’

Margaret then entered the property, surprised to find Serious still inside.

‘You’ve been living in this property while Margie’s been trying to sell it to pay for Phillip’s aged care,’ reporter Pippa Bradshaw told the Young Einstein star.

‘He’s got dementia – he can sell the property,’ Serious flippantly replied.

When told that Charlton had been unable to sell the property while Serious was occupying it, he defiantly protested that he was not squatting but rather ‘surviving’.

Removalists then arrived to begin stripping the property of belongings; however, Serious refused to budge.

‘Yahoo is still refusing to go, even though we are taking all the old furniture out so the house can be sold,’ Charlton said.

She added that the situation would soon be escalated if Serious continued to flout the court order. 

Speaking to Daily Mail in July, Serious denied that he was squatting at the property, despite a tribunal hearing having given him a deadline to vacate.

Serious – and his wild haircut at the time – became suddenly famous when he starred in 1988’s Young Einstein movie and then 1993’s Reckless Kelly.

The bitter row over Serious squatting squatting in a beachside property in one of Australia’s ritziest suburbs finally ended in August, when the former movie star was put out onto the streets. 

The fallen Hollywood icon finally left – and was left effectively homeless, with all his worldly goods stashed in his ageing BMW car.

‘He’s out!’ his jubilant landlord Margie Charlton, who holds power of attorney for owner Charles Phillip Porter, told Daily Mail at the time. ‘We kicked him out.’  

Serious didn’t go quietly.

‘He called the police and said I was being violent,’ Margie said. ‘The police came and they said, “No mate, you’re out. You gotta leave.”‘

After police intervened, Serious left with his Jack Russell dog, Jingle. 

His rundown car remained in the driveway, and according to Charlton, it is ‘filled with his s***, but the car is f***ed. It’s not going to go anywhere’.

The Aussie actor allegedly left a trail of destruction in his wake.

‘He has left the house in a filthy state,’ Charlton said. ‘There is rotting food, it’s disgusting.’

In the 24 hours after Serious left, Charlton had to call in an army of friends for the clean-up operation and removed ‘six truckloads of stuff’, she said.

But she’s relieved the ordeal is finally over after lengthy legal battles and tense confrontations with the star over the home.