Queensland Maroons legend and NRL commentator Darren Lockyer has made an incursion into NSW territory amid this year’s State of Origin series.
The retired real estate loving NRL champion recently expanded his NSW property portfolio with a new purchase.
Lockyer hasn’t ventured too far over state lines, but just before the latest Ampol Origin series kicked off he bought in the NSW Tweed Valley.
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Lockyer is among a range of players, past and present, to recently purchase new properties. It’s his second purchase at Crystal Creek, which is about 8km south of the border, and 30km from coastal Casuarina, as he and wife Loren had previously bought in 2016.
They have spent $2.6 million on the Crystal Creek Estate, a working cafe and nursery on 4.4 hectares.
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It was offered with registered tenancy inplace with its marketing noting the business was profitable as a “popular spot to enjoy great coffee and meals overlooking Crystal Creek.”
“Good neighbours, wonderful local community spirit all set in a beautiful location of the Tweed Valley,” the marketing advised.
The property comes with a four-bedroom homestead. There’s horse stables and machinery shedding. It has around 370m of Crystal Creek frontage, with swimming holes.
The Lockyers first bought in Crystal Creek in 2016 for $770,000 which secured a four-hectare equestrian property with dressage arena, stables and electrified paddocks.
They told The Sell they would use the property as a hobby farm for their children who were into “quad bikes, motorbikes and farm animals.”
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There have been just the 10 Crystal Creek sales in the interim, topping out at $1,306,000 last October when a three hectare holding was bought by The Heart of Love charity foundation.
The Lockyers have been based in Brisbane’s Paddington for over a decade.
Lockyer, who’s in the NRL Hall of Fame, closed the book on his playing career in 2011 having won four grand finals, a record six consecutive State of Origin series wins and a World Cup in his 17-year career.
He has been a club director at the Brisbane Broncos since 2013. And he is a selector for the Maroons.
“I work in the property game, and have investments in other businesses, and I obviously cover the football with Nine” Lockyer recently told Denan Kemp, the Bloke In A Bar podcaster when asked what takes up his time.
He is also a director at One Key Workforce, the labour hire firm.
Lockyer is among a mix of game legends to buy new properties over the past year.
Wests Tigers premiership winner and current assistant coach Benji Marshall and his wife Zoe, spent $4.75 million on a stunning home in Sydney’s Hunters Hill in May last year after selling in Canada Bay.
Another of the NRL’s biggest names, Souths fullback Latrell Mitchell scored his dream home in Sydney’s south as the finals approached last year.
Kangaroos captain James Tedesco set a new standard when he bought a cracking two-level home on Sydney’s exclusive north shore last year, paying about $5 million.
Originally published as State of Origin: Maroons legend Darren Lockyer makes hush NSW deal
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