One of the NRL’s toughest players has made a quiet, big money move that could point to his future beyond footy.
One of the NRL’s toughest players has made a quiet, big money move that could point to his future beyond footy.
Roosters star Victor Radley has snapped up a beach investment pad and just days later put it up for rent at $1100 per week.
The 27-year-old has had a concerning history with head knocks recently but his purchase of 3/38 Ramsgate Ave, North Bondi looks to have been a switched-on move.
He’s got the one-bedroom Art Deco beauty for a cool $1.26m, down from the $1.3m asking price.
The median sale price for one-bedders in the suburb was $990k over the past year, but with neighbours like Hugh Jackman nearby, this is a special patch.
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Victor Radley with partner Taylah Cratchley and son Vinnie.
French doors open to a “communal garden courtyard”.
Afterpay boss Nick Molnar, Australia’s youngest billionaire, is another who calls glamorous North Bondi home.
Homes there are so sought after, that last month a tiny 35 sqm flat sold for a whopping $2.32m.
The sales agents for the 64 sqm “chic garden retreat”, Ray White Double Bay’s Nathan Ryland and Taylah Drinkwater, who’d had it in their books since January, refused to discuss the purchaser.
But other sources confirmed it was the rugby league enforcer.
Records show it exchanged last Friday and by Monday it was up for rent with the $1100 per week asking price.
That’s up from the $800 weekly rent being charged in November, 2020.
The new tenant won’t be able to move in until the apartment settles in his name — presumably in about five weeks.
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Hugh Jackman hanging out in North Bondi. Picture: Dylan Robinson
Nick Molnar, CEO of Afterpay at North Bondi. Picture: John Feder/The Australian.
It’s understood the vendor is an investor from the North Shore, who’d bought the one-bedder at the rear of the block of 12 for $1.19m in 2022.
That owner looks to have done a decent reno, with the apartment described as “beautifully reimagined”.
It features a modern gas kitchen with European appliances and French doors open to a “communal garden courtyard”.
There’s no off-street parking, but it’s just 300m from the sand and surf.
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A modern gas kitchen with European appliances.
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Radley was born and bred in Bondi. Picture: Justin Lloyd.
The apartment is at the rear of the block of 12.
North Bondi boasts some of Australia’s most wanted and most expensive homes. Picture: John Appleyard
Radley, who was born in Bondi, has good form with previous property purchases there.
He was only 20 when he bought a two-bedder as his first home for $1.2m in 2018, just a year after he made his NRL debut for the Roosters against the Newcastle Knights.
That was sold in 2021 for $1.97m.
The trained carpenter then bought a four-bedroom house in Waverley for $2,999,000 and did a $500k reno.
But with his marketing exec partner, Taylah Cratchley, having their first child, son Vinnie, he decided he needs a larger family home so he’s had a couple of unsuccessful attempts to try to sell it with $4.4m and then $4m price guides.
That’s now listed for rent with hopes of $2,650 per week.
Victor Radley in action for the Roosters. Picture: NRL Photos
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