“Good job”: Russell Crowe drops real estate insight on Joe Rogan podcast – realestate.com.au

Hollywood powerhouse Russell Crowe has given insight into one of his first property purchases on Joe Rogan’s podcast, thanking his younger self for buying a piece of Aussie bushland that would become his retreat.

On the November 6 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Crowe and Rogan discuss Crowe’s Aussie “home”, a rural estate in Nana Glen on the NSW north coast.

“I always look back to my 30-year-old self making the decision to take the little money I was making at the time, 31, 32 I was, and buy 100 hectares in the bush because somehow I knew I was going to need that place,” Crowe said.

“I could have bought an apartment in the city, but I didn’t.

“I bought 100 hectares of virtually blank scrubland, with no fences.”

Crowe said he bought the block on January 20, 1996, before he started filming LA Confidential.

“I look at that 32-year-old and say, ‘mate, well done’,” he said.

An aerial view of Russell Crowe’s Nana Glen estate in 2000. Photo: David Thorn

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The Academy Award winner said the property was his island, a place he could escape to when he needed to recharge.

“I call the place I have in the bush, it’s not the official name, but I call it the miracle cure,” he said.

“It will cure all ills, but you must surrender to its rhythm.

“You have to wake up before the birds.

“You have to put yourself in a situation where you go deep into the bush so you get that kind of oxygen.

“You just have to really give yourself to it.

“Spend your days checking to see if the cows are doing well, checking if the new trough system is working, or just getting your hands a little dirty and forgetting about everything else.”

Russell Crowe attends the premiere of “Nuremberg” during AFI FEST 2025 at TCL Chinese Theater on October 24, 2025 in Hollywood, California. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

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Crowe said that once he walked through the gates of the property, he could shed the title of “Russell Crowe.”

“This brand name, this kind of stamp, and that’s all you hear, you know? Russell Crowe, Russell Crowe,” he said.

‘And then I pass that gate, and that’s not me anymore.

“I am a son, I am a brother, I am an uncle, I am a father.

“I am in charge of running the farms.

“All these things come into play, and the whole branding thing falls away, and you have to prove yourself on a whole different level when you’re at home.”

News Corp previously reported Crowe has snapped up acres of surrounding land since purchasing that first 100-acre block in Nana Glen.

In 2013, it was reported that the actor and film director purchased an additional nine surrounding parcels of land surrounding the original plot, with the total holdings spanning hundreds of acres.

Crowe also owns a 10,000 sq ft Finger Wharf penthouse in Woolloomooloo, which he bought for $14.35 million in 2003.

In November 2024, it was reported that the Gladiator star willing to sell the property for the right price.

That price was estimated at the time to be around $42 million – $45 million.