Comic Roseanne Barr has bid farewell to her longtime Hawaiian refuge — promoting her 46-acre Honokaa ranch for $2.6 million, roughly $650,000 above the $1.95 million asking worth, The Submit has discovered.
The deal, which sparked a bidding frenzy, got here collectively in a matter of days, underscoring the sturdy urge for food for distinctive island properties. Robb Report broke information of the deal.
Barr bought the sprawling macadamia nut farm in 2007 for $1.78 million.
The property later served because the setting for her short-lived actuality collection “Roseanne’s Nuts” in 2011, which adopted her try to run the farm alongside her companion Johnny Argent and her son, Jake Pentland.
Although the present lasted just one season, Barr held on to the property for years, utilizing it as her residence and personal retreat after the cancellation of her ABC sitcom revival in 2018.
The ranch, perched alongside the Hamakua Coast, options panoramic ocean views and greater than 4,000 macadamia bushes surrounding a 2,716-square-foot residence.
The principle residence contains 4 bedrooms, a sunlit open-concept residing space with double French doorways, and a kitchen fitted with wooden cabinetry and stainless-steel home equipment.
Outdoors, facilities embrace a pool and a waterslide, a guesthouse, an artwork studio, a greenhouse, and a bamboo-enclosed out of doors bathe and soaking tub.
Itemizing agent Paul Stukin of Deep Blue HI stated that curiosity within the property was speedy and world.
“There was curiosity the place patrons flew in from 5 totally different states, the neighbor Island and three European nations,” he informed The Submit.
Barr, 72, has since traded island life for the Texas Hill Nation, the place she resides together with her son and his household.
Whereas Barr stated she is going to all the time cherish her connection to Hawaii, she acknowledged that sustaining such an enormous property has change into impractical.
“Hawaii will all the time maintain a particular place in my coronary heart, however I’m getting too previous to do as a lot as I used to. The land deserves somebody with the spirit and power to take care of it the way in which it must be,” she beforehand informed Robb Report.
Barr initially envisioned the ranch as a self-sustaining haven and a option to give again to the group she had lengthy admired.
