{"id":506989,"date":"2026-02-27T06:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506989\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:31:12","slug":"australian-test-cricket-captain-pat-cummins-sells-sydney-eastern-suburbs-property-for-jaw-dropping-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506989\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Test Cricket captain Pat Cummins sells Sydney Eastern Suburbs property for jaw-dropping price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian test cricket captain Pat Cummins has sold his family home in Sydney\u2019s Eastern Suburbs for about $15 million, almost $6m above the price he and his wife Becky paid five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The cricket star sold the Victorian manor, dubbed Figtree House, about six months after securing the keys to a nearby $16m two-storey home that required renovations.<\/p>\n<p>Mr and Mrs Cummins\u2019 Bronte abode was purchased for $9.3m in March 2021 from a local couple behind Double Bay\u2019s Indigo Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Figtree House boasts a home cinema, mud room, children\u2019s wing, interior work by renowned Sydney designers Arent &amp; Pyke and marble kitchen imported from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The five-bedroom house is the winner of multiple design awards, including the University of Melbourne\u2019s 2015 Interior Design Excellence Award.<\/p>\n<p>It sits on a 670-square-metre block with a heated pool, large back lawn and ocean views and is situated just a 700m walk away from Bronte Beach near local cafes and eateries.<\/p>\n<p>The sale was done off-market last week, sources told <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/property\/residential\/cricket-star-pat-cummins-sells-15m-bronte-home-ahead-of-upcoming-reno-20260218-p5o3dp\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian Financial Review<\/a>, and was handled by luxury real estate agent Brad Pillinger.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified buyer was represented by Cohen Handler representatives Simon Cohen and Isabella Luca.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pillinger refused to comment when contacted by SkyNews.com.au.<\/p>\n<p>Mr and Mrs Cummins will move within Bronte to their new home which was originally built in 1888 on a 732-square-metre block.<\/p>\n<p>This house was previously owned by Waverley councillor Keri Spooner and her late husband Brian O\u2019Neill who purchased the home in 1996 for $990,000.<\/p>\n<p>The cricketing star also owns a three-bedroom 1930s cottage in the Southern Highlands which was purchased for $905,000 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>His penchant for bowling extends to flipping homes as he sold a three-bedroom Clovelly apartment in 2021 for $3.7m after purchasing the place in 2013 for $1.36m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian test cricket captain Pat Cummins has sold his family home in Sydney\u2019s Eastern Suburbs for about $15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,254508,254509,254510,740,1948,85,95717],"class_list":["post-506989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-becky-cummins","tag-bronte-home","tag-bronte-house","tag-cricket","tag-pat-cummins","tag-sports","tag-sydney-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}