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Marcus Bontempelli has sold his Kew home just months after a social media post revealing he and wife Neila’s baby news was filmed in the back yard.
Western Bulldogs premiership player and captain Marcus Bontempelli has sold his Kew home in a multimillion-dollar deal.
One of the code’s most decorated active players, The Bont made his AFL debut with the Footscray-based team in 2014 and two years later played in the side’s 2016 Premiership victory over Sydney, and in the same year got his first stint as a fill-in captain — the youngest player to do so since 2012.
He was vice-captain by 2018, and has been the team’s on field leader since 2020.
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After 276 games he has won three Leigh Matthews Trophies as the league’s most valuable player, the AFL Coaches Association Champion Player of the Year Award in 2019, three AFL Players Association Best Captain awards.
He was this year’s Victorian State of Origin captain, has appeared in the All-Australian team list seven times and received the Charles Sutton medal as the Bulldog’s best and fairest six times and was an AFL Rising Star nominee in 2014.
Records show he bought the Kew residence for $2.265m in 2017, and it is understood he has now sold it for more than $2.6m.
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Bulldogs captain Marcus Bontempelli and wife Neila in the social media video where they announced their baby news. Source: Instagram/ Neila Bontempelli.
The backyard pool the video was shot at is surrounded by landscaped gardens.
The home was listed for sale from $2.6m-$2.85m.
He and wife Neila also own local area cafe Arthur’s Milk Bar, which opened in 2025, and earlier this year announced they are expecting their first child.
The pair announced their baby joy in February with a social media post showing them cutting into a gender reveal cake poolside in their home’s backyard.
They married in October last year.
The soon-to-be-former Bontempelli residence features a four-bedroom floorplan with a central bathroom.
A hallway through the middle of the home opens via double doors to the renovated rear of the house, which showcases an open-plan kitchen and family zone that opens out to a sheltered deck and landscaped backyard.
An open-plan kitchen and dining zone that spills out to a rear deck helped lure in two buyers.
The back yard had plenty of scope for a family, but the pair have sold up ahead of expanding theirs.
A tiled pool and spa are surrounded by stone paving is the highlight of the greenery-lined space, which also has a fire pit, mature trees and manicured garden beds.
Still featuring many of its classic hallmarks the California bungalow went to market with a mix of timber floors, leadlight windows and picture rails.
A light and bright decor throughout the house makes the most of the backyard’s northwest orientation
The house also has a rear gate access to a right of way, in addition to off-street parking at the front of the home.
It is located walking distance from schools, shops, cafes parks and trams.
Abercrombys agent Simon Curtain handled the sale and while he could not discuss his vendor, noted that it had been a “really interesting” result — with limited interest early on, before a pair of buyers made offers later on.
The home’s rear living zone is light and bright.
One of the home’s potential bedrooms is currently serving as a lounge room.
Mr Curtain added that a third prospective buyer, who had not been willing to make an offer unconditionally, suggested that for the right homes there was still a depth of demand where sellers were prepared to meet the market.
“In the end, it felt like a normal campaign,” he said.
“And we were delighted to have received a couple of offers and genuine interest throughout.”
Noting that the area’s market had “come back a touch” this year as buyers had begun to question if they might overpay for a home, and grappled with changes to investor tax benefits in the federal budget, but now appeared to be settling into a new rhythm.
“It’s definitely a complicated time, but the demand is there and people do need to buy,” Mr Curtain said.
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