Liam and Luke Hemsworth join brother Chris to buy into Byron Bay's high-end market

Liam and Luke Hemsworth have joined their Hollywood A-lister brother Chris to buy into Byron Bay’s high-end market, coughing up a combined $11.4 million for new digs in time for Christmas.

Liam Hemsworth, who at 30 is the youngest of the star siblings, didn’t require any finance to settle on his $6.5 million property in the Newrybar hinterland that was previously known as the popular wedding venue Newrybar Downs.

The luxury five-bedroom residence was designed by architect and Hollywood production company director Jason Schepisi following his purchase of the 3.9 hectares in 2011 for $1.3 million.

Following the redesign it was offloaded two years later by the son of film director Fred Schepisi for $1.8 million to Pip and Greg Rooke, who established it as Newrybar Downs.

The star of The Hunger Games movie series looks to have already moved in to his new home, judging by the Instagram feed of his girlfriend Gabriella Brooks and a post of her laying at the end of the property’s sprawling lawn.

The homestead is a U-shaped residence with two bedroom wings on either side of a garden courtyard and a vast lawn that extends to a swimming pool and cabana, and a bowling green beyond it.

The same day Liam took possession of his Newrybar home older brother Luke took the keys to his Suffolk Park beachfront digs for $4.9 million from a family trust of which the directors are Liam and Chris.

Luke’s Suffolk Park house at Tallow Beach was purchased by the family’s Byron Bay 1st Management two years ago for $4.3 million reportedly as a temporary home for superstar Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky while their mega-mansion at nearby Broken Head takes shape.

It remains unknown which of the Hemsworths will be hosting Christmas this Friday given Chris and Pataky’s mega-mansion at Broken Head is now complete.

Pataky and Hemsworth set a Broken Head record of $7 million in 2014 when they bought a Gilligan’s Island-style property known as Kooeloah, and with DA approval a few years later started work in 2016 on a far more expansive residence known locally as “Fort Hemsworth” complete with rooftop swimming pool, gym, steam room, media room and games room on a 4.2-hectare parcel of land.