Cricket legend Brett Lee to sell $8 million Clontarf home for new home renovation

Former Test cricketer Brett Lee and his wife Lana have caught the home renovation bug, putting their recently redesigned Clontarf home up for sale amid plans to start another renovation project.

There are $8 million to $8.8 million expectations on the luxury three-storey residence, set on the hillside above the north-facing beachfront where home values have skyrocketed in recent years.

The couple bought the Monash Crescent property in 2016 for $5.175 million, pocketing $4.91 million a few months later for their former Seaforth home.

DA plans lodged with council show Lana kicked off a major renovation a few years later with a remodelled floor plan by Agia Projects and Decus Interiors.

The result is a five-bedroom house with separate guest suite and studio, vast open-plan living areas, a white granite kitchen with butler’s pantry and a covered heated swimming pool with barbecue, pizza oven and wet bar.

Michael Clarke, not the cricketer but the local selling agent who has has listed it with Clarke & Humel’s Cherie Humel, said Lana’s love of design had prompted the couple to look at undertaking another home renovation project, but only once they had sold.

Clontarf’s house price record has been reset twice since 2016 when the fast bowler bought into the beachside suburb. Within months of Lee’s purchase, the home of the late arts patron and Transfield co-founder Franco Belgiorno-Nettis sold for $11 million to Madina Phara and Mongkol Phara, of one of Cambodia’s ruling families.

Then in 2018 the beachfront house across the road from Lee’s sold for $11.5 million to a company owned by pokie game pioneer Scott Olive.

Lee’s selling plans follow the Bondi Beach sale of fellow Test cricketer and Australian captain Michael Clarke, who pocketed more than $7.25 million the day after news broke he had split with wife Kyly.