Former footballer and Triple M footy commentator Michael Roberts has sold 7 Soudan Street, Malvern.
The final siren has sounded on selling campaigns for the striking homes of past and present St Kilda players.
Footballer-turned-commentator Michael Roberts found a buyer for his impressive Malvern home on the brink of Melbourne’s stage four lockdown.
The price achieved by the 1884-built Victorian — which the former St Kilda, Richmond and Fitzroy player and his wife Andrea thoroughly renovated — is being kept confidential. The 7 Soudan Street property most recently had a $3.3-$3.6m price guide.
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Roberts and his wife Andrea beautifully renovated the Malvern home. Picture: Sarah Matray
This open-plan living, dining and kitchen area was popular with buyers.
Jellis Craig Stonnington partner Carla Fetter said her agency sold the four-bedroom house to a young, upsizing family from Armadale within three weeks of taking over the listing from another agency.
The buyer had to go head-to-head with another interested party to win the keys after they “instantly fell in love with the house”, she said.
“It’s in a great location, and Michael and Andrea did an amazing renovation,” Ms Fetter said.
“The real sell for the house was that back living and kitchen area.”
The house sold to a family from nearby Armadale.
The Roberts’ reno included installing a pool.
Roberts previously told the Herald Sun he and Andrea had shared the home with daughters Charlotte, Amelia and Phoebe since 2006, when CoreLogic records show it sold for $1.375m.
Roberts said it was “a little double-fronted Victorian” then.
He and his wife initially made small improvements before diving into the “full-blown reno” about four years ago. This involved retaining the home’s “old-world look” while also adding a second-storey main bedroom suite, the open-plan living and kitchen space that was so popular with the purchasers, and a backyard pool.
The hotel-like main bedroom suite.
The Victorian retained period charm.
“We spent a bit of dough on it — we put in steel windows upstairs, they’re quite expensive, (plus) big Italian tiles and new floorboards. But to me, the place required that,” Roberts said.
He added he’d loved watching the footy in “the best room in the house”: the sitting room.
The 61-year-old — who’s now a Triple M commentator, and previously worked as a model on Sale of the Century, and as a TV present and journalist — sold to downsize, but admitted he was reluctant to say goodbye to the “bloody nice house”.
Meanwhile, AFLW player Claudia Whitfort and her highly rated netball coach mother, Jess, also sold their Frankston South home for a figure within the $2.7-$2.9m quoted range.
The family home of AFLW player Claudia Whitfort at 24 Chetwyn Court, Frankston South has also sold.
Whitfort in action for the Saints. Picture: Michael Klein
RT Edgar Mt Eliza director Vicki Sayers said the buyers — a local woman and her partner, who had an acreage-type property further down the Mornington Peninsula — planned to make the 7800sq m property a family home for them and their kids.
“This home offered them the feeling of being in a rural space, with room for four kids between them, (plus the) convenience of being close to shops and schools,” Ms Sayers said.
Inside the charming farmhouse-style home.
The buyers planned to share the house with their four kids.
The Whitforts had called the five-bedroom house at 24 Chetwyn Court home since 2011.
Claudia joined St Kilda last year, having shifted clubs from Melbourne, who selected her in the 2017 draft while she was still in Year 12.
The sale followed Jess — the 2019 Netball Victoria Coaching Excellence award winner — moving the rest of the family up to the Sunshine Coast to take on a new coaching role.
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