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State of Origin Blues captain James Tedesco bought a new Hunters Hill home with his fiancee Marie Glinellis.
State of Origin Blues captain James Tedesco and his fiancee Maria Glinellis have bought a new home. They spent just over $5 million last month for a residence on the Hunters Hill peninsula.
That ranks the price as the highest known NRL captain’s outlay on a home during their playing career.
The 2013 built home, which has been newly renovated, is five doors away from the abode of Maria’s family, parents Angelo and Marlene and brother, Jake.
State of Origin Blues captain James Tedesco’s new Hunters Hill home.
The contemporary home, which first sold for $3.25 million in 2014, comes with a lofty atrium that lets in natural light across both levels.
There are five bedrooms, plus an upstairs living area, and basement parking for three cars.
It comes with the open plan downstairs lounge, kitchen, and family room, opening to an alfresco space with outdoor kitchen.
There’s a rear level lawn on the 655 sqm block with an impressive glass edge pool.
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Tedesco dropped $5m on the gorgeous home.
That ranks the price as the highest known NRL captain’s outlay on a home during their playing career.
There are five bedrooms, plus an upstairs living area, and basement parking for three cars.
James Tedesco and his fiancee Maria Glinellis attend the NRL 2021 Dally M Awards. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)
The couple snapped the home up just two weeks into its auction campaign through DiJones agents David Howe and Max Yue, who’d given a $4.6 million guide.
The Glinellis family are local hospitality entrepreneurs, co-owning Ironwood Coffee in Woolwich.
Hunters Hill is becoming known for its sports stars.
Australian fast bowler Josh Hazlewood bought a strikingly modern home in 2016 for $3.8 million, and the Wests Tigers legend turned Fox Sports presenter Benji Marshall and his podcaster wife, Zoe, recently bought their five bedroom home for $4.75 million after selling in Concord.
Hunters Hill is becoming known for its sports stars.
Good spot for a bit of backyard footy and/or cricket.
Tedesco, aged 29, is a keen property investor who retains a number of long-time Western Sydney investments where he grew up, including Toongabbie, Menangle Park and Lurnea.
Daly Cherry-Evans, the Queensland captain but Sydney based, certainly ranks among the league big spenders having spent $3.4 million at North Curl Curl in 2018.
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No surprise given his number one ranking on the last The NRL Rich 100 publication by The Daily Telegraph.
Of course plenty of players have bought more expensive homes but only after adding their post-playing windfalls.
The couple snapped the home up just two weeks into its auction campaign through DiJones agents David Howe and Max Yue, who’d given a $4.6 million guide.
NSW and Roosters captain Tedesco has invested wisely.
The home is very rehab friendly.
Tedesco has even outspent his Roosters coach Trent Robinson who recently finished extensive additions to his Bronte home which cost $4 million in 2020.
Tedesco’s Blues coach Brad Fittler recently spent $8,225,000, with partner Marie Liarris on a Terrey Hills acreage after setting a nearby $12 million sale record. The couple had bought the acreage in 2014 for $3.1 million.
In Fittler’s last year at the Roosters in 2004, he splashed $1.269 million for a semi at Clovelly, with no registered mortgage.
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