It was lucky number 31 that did it.

Aussie cricket veteran Ben Cutting and his model/TV presenter wife Erin Holland are the new owners of a grand Queenslander in Brisbane.

The glamorous couple were spotted at the Ray White Collective auction event at The Calile Hotel last weekend, placing the winning $2.856 million bid for the Hawthorne showstopper.

Holland took to Instagram soon after, posting: Busy day for @golcondapropertygroup … this ones for us though … lucky number 31 did the trick today!!

“We just saw the renovation potential and to have a double block in a suburb like Hawthorne was too big of an opportunity to pass up,” Holland told the Courier Mail, with the duo both saying security would be the first on their to-do list.

On a 810sq m block, the early 1900s residence has six bedrooms, three bathrooms and original features such as soaring ceilings, traditional VJ boards and timber floors.

It was marketed by Ray White Bulimba agents Brandon Wortley and Harry Bennett, who will soon list the couple’s current home, also in Hawthorne.

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The grand residence was owned by Ray White Bulimba principal Scott Darwon, who said it was the first time he had taken his own home to market.

“As agents we can rock up with expectations but our sellers have so much work to do to get houses for sale which you can easily take for granted,” he said.

But the Hawthorne house is not the only iron that Holland and Cutting have in the red-hot property fire.

Golconda Property Group, the couple’s residential and commercial property development company, recently completed Beju Residences, a joint venture with K2 Projects and EM Design at Burleigh Heads.

“We have just sold and settled those four townhouses,” Holland said.

A render of the Beju Residences project at Burleigh Heads . Image supplied.

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Now the drawings are being done up on their next project at Morningside – rooming-style accommodation that is is being marketed as a “new standard of affordable living”.

Cutting, who has been unable to play due to injury, is also ramping up another new side to the business.

“When I was in hotel quarantine I spent a lot that time studying for my real estate licence,” he said.

“I started the buyers advocacy side of the business about 12 months ago but it was very selective and quiet as I was playing cricket.

“But, due to injury, to be fair, cricket has kind of become the side hustle now as I make that transition.

“I have been passionate about property since buying my first apartment at Portside about 15 or 16 years ago.

“Now I am just using the same strategy that we used to find and buy investment and development opportunities to help clients.”