NRL stars in post-season Sydney real estate selling spree
The footy season is only just over and these NRL stars have moved quickly to making big bucks elsewhere.
The NRL season is only a little over a week old, but that hasn’t stopped some of rugby league’s biggest names moving on to making big bucks elsewhere – in the booming real estate market.
Parramatta captain Clint Gutherson has put the disappointment of the Eels 2021 premiership exit in the second week of the finals behind him by making a $330,000 profit on a Collaroy investment unit.
Last week Gutherson secured $1.53 million for the sale of the unit through Upstate agent Chris Aldren, who’d sought $1.4 million. The investment was co-owned with family members having been bought for $1.2 million in 2018.
Newcastle playmaker and Merewether resident, Mitchell Pearce secured $1,276,000 recently for a Neutral Bay apartment that had been a $750 a week rental. Pearce had bought it for $795,000 in 2009 when he was with the Sydney Roosters.
Josh Reynolds, now over in the UK playing for Hull, thinned out his portfolio when he pocketed $1,355,000 for a Belmore property through Stone agent Joseph Tropiano last month.
While, the Concord West investment property syndicate headed by former Wests Tigers star Robbie Farah scored $2.8 million with a midweek sale, last week.
There had been $2.5 million guidance for the renovated four bedroom bungalow on Myall St, that unsuccessfully went to 2018 auction when passed in at $2.18 million.
The investment property bought for $1.02 million in 2012, was co-owned by Farah with other family members, Jason, Jessica, Eddie and Renee in the syndicate.
It was last advertised as a rental in 2018 at $1050 a week, having initially been listed with $1375 a week expectations. It had been a $550 a week rental before its rear extension construction.
Another investment syndicate of the family recently sold its holding in Brisbane’s Hamilton, securing a combined $2,275,000 from the dual occupancy project. The initial acquisition had been $1.13 million in 2016.
The off-field stars who report on the game have also been making moves.
Danika Mason, the sports reporter on the ascendancy at Channel 9’s Wide World Of Sports, recently upgraded homes in Maroubra from where she posted her weekend gym workout video on Instagram from the basement.
Mason spent $1,525,000 mid-season on a newly built townhouse with her fiancee, the personal trainer Todd Liubinskas, who’s the fitness director at Men’s Health magazine. Their three-level, four-bedroom home in a boutique complex of four replaced her one-bedroom abode.
Her redundant Maroubra apartment, which had been bought for $640,000 in 2017, has become a rental.
Mason, who moved from sideline reporting to hosting during the season, is the personality most likely to replace Erin Molan who will be stepping back a bit in 2022.
Mason recently told Stellar magazine she’s great friends, and learnt much from her female colleagues, including Molan, who recently sold her Randwick apartment through Adrian Bo at NGFarah for $1,680,250, seeking something closer to Nine HQ in North Sydney. The two-bedroom apartment cost $1.2 million in 2017.
The year also saw Fox Sports presenter Yvonne Sampson pay $2.4 million for a home in the inner west, with her husband Chris O’Keefe, who’s a rising star in the Channel 9 news stable, with plans to expand from television into radio over the summer break on 2GB.
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