Where the NRL’s top stars have bought and sold in 2020

Some of rugby league’s biggest names still managed to make a major splash in the property market despite being stuck in the COVID-19 bubble. Find out where they bought here.

Jack Wighton bought a home in Bywong. Picture. Phil Hillyard

The NRL’s strict COVID-19 bubble requirements this season kept the usually plentiful off field property movements of star players limited.

Listings and sales remained scarce although the Dally M Medal winner and NSW Origin player Jack Wighton and his partner Monisha Lew-Fatt made a mid-season play when they bought their first home together.

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Plenty of space for the couple on the three hectare estate at Bywong. It was marketed as a holiday at home, with the potential to ride horses and bikes, camp, fish, catch yabbies and play cricket.

The 1970s fully renovated home has six bedrooms, three bathrooms, two living areas and two outside entertaining areas. It cost the pair $1,135,000.

The property has six-bedrooms.

Having grown up in Orange, Wighton made his debut for the Raiders in 2012 and has played 172 games since, scoring 54 tries.

Parramatta Eels playmaker Mitch Moses turned his attention to his real estate portfolio twice this year including in the weeks following the end of season. He quickly offloaded his former Epping home earlier this month. The Winifred Avenue property only hit the listing websites for a handful of days before being taken down.

He was asking $1.9 million.

Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has been very active in the property market this year. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

He is seeking a buyer for this Cammeray apartment.

Moses paid $1,375,000 for the three-bedroom home in 2015 when he was at the Tigers.

In April he spent $1.8 million on a 1940s home in Gladesville, buying back into the area having also sold quietly in Ryde for $2,099,000 in February.

Sydney Rooster Jake Friend accepted a $1.58 million offer last month on his Randwick investment. His two-bedroom, two-bathroom Randwick investment apartment took close to two months to find the buyer.

The apartment had a $1.5 million guide for its unsuccessful mid-September auction.

Coming with city skyline views from its Frenchmans Rd vantage point, Friend had paid $1.32 million in 2017. He and his fiance, Jenna Kallin lived there for 18 months before undertaking a renovation. The penthouse style apartment had an initial $1200 asking rental in 2019 and was available at $1050 a week more recently.

Jake Friend sold this apartment for $1.58m.

Josh Reynolds recently sold this property in Caringbah South.

On the lower north shore Roosters enforcer Jared Warea-Hargreaves and wife Chelsea secured $5m for their Mosman home back in August.

And now they’re seeking a buyer for their Cammeray investment apartment.

The couple have renovated the top floor apartment in the Rosalind Gardens complex since paying $750,000 in 2014, shortly after Jared made his 100th appearance for the Chooks.

The 105 sqm unit with a leafy open pergola balcony has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. They most recently sought $600 a week tenants, down on the $670 a week from 2018.

Di Jones Lower North Shore agent Trevor Richardson has a $900,000 guide for its November 28 auction.

Kieran Foran sold in St Ives in March. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)

The St Ives home.

Kieran Foran, who is returning to Manly after five years away at the Parramatta Eels, New Zealand Warriors and more recently the Canterbury Bulldogs, sold his former abode in March. He and his partner Karina Ormsby sold their St Ives home for $1.75 million, just above the $1.7 million they paid three years ago.

In the south, the Wests Tigers player Josh Reynolds and his former Bulldogs teammate Michael Lichaa were active.

The pair built a duplex a few years ago, with Lichaa selling for $1.75 million in 2018. Reynolds has recently offloaded his for $1.5 million.

They’ve both also found buyers for their holding in their more recent townhouse development. Reynolds scored $1,675,000, with Lichaa getting $1,715,000.