The farmer’s wife chapter is over for Samantha Armytage and the Hyams Beach home she was selling is now off the market. After spending an extended period available for sale since December 2023, the waterfront beach shack owned and renovated by the TV personality has been withdrawn.
It coincides with her confirmed split from Richard Lavender, her husband of four years. Having moved out of the horse breeder’s Southern Highlands home, there’s speculation Samantha plans to spend time in her South Coast home that’s no longer for sale.
The seasoned TV host is reported to be currently staying in a Rushcutters Bay apartment she bought as an investment for $1.5 million in 2021. She’s left Channel 7’s Farmer Wants A Wife and will be returning to screens as host of The Golden Bachelor on Channel 9 in 2025.

While Sam herself has enjoyed many blissful escapes to her Hyams Beach property in recent years with Richard and her beloved late Labrador Retriever, Banjo, she’s also shared it with holiday goers, renting it for short-term stays on Airbnb for $1200 a night.
The beloved beach shack was on the market with a price guide of $3.2 million and went through a couple of agents, all while remaining available as a holiday rental.
Sam purchased the property, located on a pristine stretch of coastline right between Hyams Beach and Chinamans Beach in 2018 for $1.765 million and promptly refreshed the interiors, swapping out nautical decor for a chic, all-white colour palette.

Before and after


Samantha Armytage isn’t the only Australian celebrity who has been drawn to Hyams Beach’s glorious white sand and salty sea air. INXS drummer Jon Farris once lived just doors down from Samantha’s weekender, while The Block judge Darren Palmer recently opened the doors to his Hyams Beach hideaway ‘Akora Cottage’.
The NSW South Coast property isn’t Sam’s only waterfront abode—she also enjoys waterfront views at her property in Sydney’s Rushcutter’s Bay or retreat to her idyllic country home in the NSW Southern Highlands.
Tour Samantha Armytage’s Hyams Beach shack





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