Australian cricket legend Michael Clarke, ex-AFL player Lance “Buddy” Franklin and wife Jesinta and surfing champion Mick Fanning have all listed or bought in 2025. Pictures: Supplied/Philip Hillyard/Jonathan Ng/Luke Marsden.
A massive line-up of Australian sports stars from Olympic gold medallists to AFL champions have scored top-dollar property deals across 2025.
Big names including cricketing greats Pat Cummins and Michael Clarke, tennis player Nick Kyrgios, Olympic swimmer Libby Trickett, surfing ace Mick Fanning, former Collingwood forward and midfielder Alan Didak, Queensland Maroons’ captain Cameron Munster and ex-footballer Lance “Buddy” Franklin and his wife Jesinta have all made big moves on the property ladder.
Joining them is a host of other athletes including Sydney Swans’ midfielder Chad Warner who bought a riverside house in the Perth suburb of Applecross worth almost $2.9m, in January.
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Later in the year, two-time AFL Brownlow medallist Chris Judd and his wife, businesswoman, Jaggad sportswear label co-founder and influencer Bec Judd, sold a retreat on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
Public records show the three-bedroom house fetched $2.78m in May.
Marshall White Bayside director Ben Vieth declined to comment on the sold price, as did Morell and Koren buyers’ advocate Matthew Cleverdon who purchased the abode on behalf of a client.
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Lance “Buddy” Franklin and Jesinta Franklin sold their Queensland mansion in November.
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Jesinta and Lance “Buddy” Franklin. He played for Hawthorn and Sydney before announcing his retirement in 2023, while she is a model, influencer and beauty pageant titleholder.
Bec and Chris Judd also sold their Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, property in 2025.
Bec and Chris Judd at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Picture: Supplied.
Another former footy player, ex-Magpie Alan Didak, earned $4m when his townhouse in Melbourne’s inner east sold in May, according to sales records.
The four-level residence featuring a lift, pool and a cocktail bar in the basement was listed through Marshall White Boroondara.
Didak scored a goal in the 2010 Collingwood grand final replay against St Kilda and also played in 2003 and 2002 grand finals.
Collingwood’s Dane Swan and Alan Didak with the AFL Premiership Cup in 2010. Picture: Stuart McEvoy.
The Melbourne home sold by Didak has a basement cocktail bar.
A third AFL-related property that transacted in May was AFL Bombers’ vice-captain Andrew McGrath and then-fiance Emma Laughlin’s Victorian-era house in Albert Park, Melbourne.
The double-storey pad’s new owners snapped it up for $2.675m.
Kay & Burton partner James Driver and colleague Campbell Kilsby managed the sales campaign.
And there were more happy tidings in store for McGrath and Ms Laughlin when they married at a Queensland ceremony during November.
May also saw Olympic aerial-skiing gold medallist Alisa Camplin-Warner and her husband, Telstra group executive Oliver Camplin-Warner, sell their Melbourne house.
The couple’s circa-1886 home fetched $6.15m, records show, while Marshall White Boroondara director Chris Barrett had the listing.
AFL Bombers’ vice-captain Andrew McGrath and then-fiance Emma Laughlin, who married in November, sold their Melbourne home in May.
Andrew McGrath and Emma Laughlin at the Essendon Best and Fairest awards in October. Picture: Ian Currie.
In June, tennis star Nick Kyrgios offloaded his Sydney penthouse for $1.925m.
The three-bedroom home in the city’s inner south east hit the market after the 2022 Wimbledon semi-finalist split from his girlfriend Costeen Hatzi.
The penthouse boasts a 24 sqm rooftop terrace with views of the Blue Mountains.
As midwinter hit in July, basketball champion and Australian Olympian Matthew Dellavedova and wife Anna farewelled their house in Melbourne’s bayside suburb Sandringham for $4.522m.
They did so after Dellavedova, an ex-Melbourne United and Cleveland Cavaliers player, signed a three-year deal with the Sydney Kings.
Belle Property Sandringham principal director Fran Harkin said there was strong interest in the 1890s-built abode with about 45 buyers, mostly families, inquiring about the property before it sold.
Australian tennis hotshot Nick Kyrgios. Picture: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images.
Kyrgios sold his Sydney penthouse halfway through 2025.
Also in July, rugby league’s Queensland captain Cameron Munster was revealed to be a savvy property investor in addition to a top-of-the-line sportsman.
The former Melbourne Storm player owns multiple residences in the state, such as a three-bedroom home in Mooloolaba, which he purchased for $650,000 in 2020, and a four-bedroom home in Peregian Springs, which he bought for $575,000 in 2016.
In August, AFLW star Madison Prespakis and her partner, influencer, businesswoman and podcaster Sophie Shaw, bid goodbye to their house in Tullamarine, in Melbourne’s northwest.
The $1.165m deal that was inked by Matthews Agency director John Matthews.
Mr Matthews said an Adelaide-based buyer purchased the house who put in an offer $175,000 above the asking range’s upper end.
Rugby league player Cameron Munster in a Kangaroos versus England match. He’s also a savvy property investor. Picture: NRL Photos
Sophie Shaw and Madison Prespakis of the Bombers arrive at the AFLW Awards in November. The pair sold their Melbourne house in 2025. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty Images.
An abundance of September property sales involving Aussie athletes included
pro golfer Cameron Smith making a $10m Brisbane penthouse his own.
The off-market sale in the inner northern suburb New Farm equated to $47,000 per square metre for the pad formerly owned by the late businessman Eddie Phillips, widely known as the “Spa King”.
The Australian-born Smith, who lives in the US with wife Shanel Naoum and their child, said he would use the penthouse as a Brisbane base.
“Brisbane will always feel like home to me,” Mr Smith said.
“The penthouse has an incredible rooftop that really sold me.”
Place New Farm agent Heath Williams oversaw the sale.
Pro golfer Cameron Smith bought a $10m Brisbane penthouse in September.
Cameron Smith has won the Australian PGA Championship three times. Picture: Scott Powick/Courier Mail.
Also in September, Socceroos legend Aaron Mooy purchased a Byron Bay hinterland home.
One of the most successful Australians to have played in the English Premier League, he splashed $5.2m on a five-bedroom home in the town of Bangalow.
The jet black-coloured property set on 1.7ha was sold through Sotheby’s International agent Peter Randall.
And AFL player Jack Silvagni sold a Melbourne house for $1.99m in September.
Silvagni, the son of Carlton veteran Stephen Silvagni, played 128 games for the Blues before signing with St Kilda in October.
Former Socceroo and English Premier League player Aaron Mooy announced his retirement from club and international football in 2023. Picture: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images.
Mooy upgraded to the Byron Bay hinterland in 2025.
In 2025’s third quarter, Olympic swimming champion Libby Trickett and her entrepreneur husband, Luke, emerged as the buyers of a $20m mansion on Brisbane’s waterfront.
The five-bedroom house in the suburb of Hawthorne first made headlines when it was listed by the previous owner, Don Gardiner, known for founding Don Gardiner Chemists, and his wife Colleen.
The three-storey home featuring a swimming pool and tennis court was sold in a deal negotiated by Place New Farm’s Sarah Hackett.
Trickett was a gold medallist at the 2004, 2008, and the 2012 Olympics.
Libby and Luke Trickett purchased this Brisbane house in 2025.
Lance “Buddy” Franklin and his wife Jesinta sold their mansion, named Villa Casa, in November.
Lance “Buddy” Franklin and wife Jesinta kicked a massive property goal when they sold their luxury mansion, named Villa Casa, on the Gold Coast, Queensland, in November.
The former AFL star and his fashion influencer wife listed the home with Whitefox Real Estate’s Dijana Speak and Nic Whitehead.
The sold price remains undisclosed but the couple paid $8.75m for the property in 2023.
Set on 4497sq m, the Mediterranean-inspired Villa Casa boasts hand-rendered lime walls, a main bedroom suite accessed via a vaulted tunnel, a terrace with built-in barbecue and a magnesium pool with a swim-up bar.
The Franklins have since downsized to a $4.6m Gold Coast property on Coomera River’s banks, featuring a modern farmhouse looking out to landscaped grounds and dams.
The Kollosche agency’s Kara Christensen and Bella Sorenson managed the sales campaign with the home selling in just 20 days.
Mick Fanning and his partner Breeana Randall are building a luxury coastal home in Queensland.
Named ONDA, the house by Brisbane-based builder-developers Graya is under construction. Picture: Supplied/Graya,
In November, Brisbane-based builder-developers Graya released artists’ renders showcasing the luxury home that world surfing champion Mick Fanning and his partner Breeana Randall are building in Queensland.
Fanning, a three-time world champion and Aussie sport Hall of Famer, paid $6.54m for the 787sq m land parcel in 2023.
Graya’s renders of Fanning and Ms Randall’s future three-level mansion show a five-bedroom residence with a pale stone and concrete exterior.
Other features include a pool flanked by entertaining terraces, bar, sauna and ice baths.
Earlier in the year, Fanning sold a southern Gold Coast property for $16.05m.
Kollosche agent Troy Dowker said he had received injuries from Europe, South Africa, Brazil and the USA about the residence.
Australian basketball star Lauren Jackson and Basketball Australian basketball coach Luc Longley promoting the 2025 NBA season. Picture: Thomas Lisson.
Longley farewelled his long-held, sprawling Western Australian property in November.
Later in 2025, three-time NBA champion Luc Longley bounced his beach house of 34 years on Western Australia’s south coast.
The former Chicago Bulls champion originally purchased the 140ha sanctuary within the William Bay National Park sight unseen while playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1991.
Ray White’s Jody Fewster and Andrew Barrow confirmed the approximate $5m sale in November.
That same month, Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins and wife Becky were confirmed as the buyers of a $16m home in Sydney’s inner east.
Records show they secured the 1888-built two-storey home in need of a renovation.
The five-bedroom home on 730sq m was bought off market in November 2024 and settled 12 months later.
Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins and his wife, interior designer Becky, at the 2024 Australian Cricket Awards. Picture: Jake Nowakowski.
The couple’s new home in the Sydney suburb of Bronte.
And on the eve of the First Ashes Test, Aussie cricket legend Michael Clarke listed his Vaucluse, Sydney, mansion with expectations above $20m, through Highland Double Bay Malouf agent Bill Malouf and his colleague Emma Potter.
Clarke bought the five-bedroom house for $13.01m in 2021.
It features heated limestone floors, a study and gym.
The Mediterranean-style kitchen has been updated and there’s a pool with a Tuscan-style cabana and fireplace.
Clarke is selling after purchasing a nearby six-bedroom mansion with a tennis court and pool for about $20m.
Australian captain Michael Clarke in the dressing rooms after Australia defeated New Zealand in the 2015 International Cricket Council’s Cricket World Cup at the MCG. Picture: Phil Hillyard.
Clarke’s Sydney mansion that’s on the market with $20m+ price expectations.
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