Ray Hadley lists $2.7m northwest Sydney home
Former broadcaster Ray Hadley is making a huge move after news broke of his granddaughter’s battle with cancer.
The recently retired Radio 2GB veterans Ray Hadley and his wife Sophie have listed their redundant contemporary Bella Vista townhouse. Their listing decision was made late last year after they decided they’d be mostly dividing their initial retirement between the NSW Central Coast and Queensland’s Gold Coast.
Their northwest Sydney townhouse – a four-bedroom, two-bathroom abode with garaging for two cars – comes with $2.7m expectations through Jane Booty and Viviane Mylott from Stone Real Estate.
The two-storey, 2022-built townhouse, with roofed alfresco courtyard, is on a 282sq m holding, within the Norwest Essentia Estate developed by Mulpha as a gated community.
It boasts a world class wellness centre with heated pool, spa and well-equipped gymnasium, plus barbecue and full kitchen.
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PropTrack puts the Bella Vista four-bedroom median after 19 sales over the past year at $2.45m, slightly below its recent peak of $2.55m.
PropTrack calculates four-bedroom Bella Vista houses typically rent for $1000 a week, reflecting a gross rental yield of 2.5 per cent. But the Stone marketing advises the listing has $1450 per week rental potential if bought by an investor.
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The couple plan to secure a Sydney penthouse, near Castle Hill Country Club, the world-class championship golf course where they both play.
It was in mid 2023 that the couple secured what started out as their coastal weekender when they spent about $2.75m on a five-bedroom home on the Bouddi Peninsula, 95km north of Sydney.
It marked a return to The Central Coast for Hadley, who had a beachfront at Toowoon Bay until 2016.
He sold his longtime Dural home in June 2021, having been living on acreage since the mid-1990s.
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The couple, who had been colleagues for almost two decades, married in March 2021.
The father of four, who worked a punishing seven days a week early in his career, told his listeners that the grandchildren’s arrivals were “life-changing experiences”.
“They basically are my life,” he said while regularly giving his radio audience insights into the seven grandchildren, all aged six years and younger, so they became akin to family for the listeners too.
He gave the Sunday Telegraph a startling revelation last month on the recent leukaemia diagnosis of his granddaughter, Lola, 3.
Hadley, who has not ruled out selective broadcasting gigs, has had a Gold Coast bolthole since 2016.
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Originally published as Ray Hadley lists $2.7m northwest Sydney home