Ben Cutting and Erin Holland have bought in Coogee.
While the rest of us are complaining about the COVID-19 restrictions, Miss World Australia Erin Holland and her cricketing fiance Ben Cutting are revelling in it.
Used to splitting their time between Holland’s hometown of Sydney and Brisbane where Cutting plays for the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League, the pair are celebrating their rare time together with a property purchase.
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Holland said it was the fifth property in the couple’s portfolio, but first together. Picture: Toby Zerna
The glamour couple has bought a two-bedroom garden apartment in Coogee, their first investment together, through Max Klimenko and Charlie Touma of Ray White Touma Group.
The price they paid for the home, which they bought shortly after it passed in at auction recently, is undisclosed, but it is believed to have been slightly above its advertised price guide of $1.2m.
“Between Ben and myself this will be the fifth property in our portfolio and we are always looking to add to that,” Holland told Property Confidential. “But it’s our first joint investment, I feel like a grown up.”
Cutting and Holland were engaged in May last year.
The pair, who got engaged in May last year, had planned to marry this year but their plans were scuttled by the global pandemic. But COVID-19 didn’t slow down their property plans. “We were always looking to enter the Sydney market at some point this year and were happy to invest during COVID while there was less competition,” said Holland.
The apartment is in a chic block, only 700m from the beach, completed in December 2018 with bespoke finishes.
“We are both beach kids at heart, me being from Cairns and Ben spending plenty of his childhood at Burleigh Beach,” Holland said.
– With additional reporting from Mercedes Maguire
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