The Footy Show panellist and Cats great Billy Brownless sells North Geelong block of land

It is a year of change for ex-Cats footballer turned commentator Billy Brownless, who, after moving to Melbourne, has quietly sold a residential block of land in North Geelong.

Within the Geelong Golf Club Estate, being developed with mini manors, many overlooking fairways of a yet to be developed nine-hole course, the 474-square-metre parcel at 94 Rutledge Boulevard, is a short drive to Corio Bay and Pakington Street shops.

The $300,000 deal has just settled after being exchanged in mid-April, weeks after the high-profile saga in which Brownless, a regular of Channel Nine’s The Footy Show, ended his long friendship with host Garry Lyon, following revelations that Lyon was having a relationship with his ex-wife.

Brownless, who now has a Melbourne bachelor pad, appointed Gartland Property Geelong to sell the Rutledge Boulevard block, but agent Nathan Ashton declined to comment about any part of the deal when contacted.

A Nine spokeswoman said Brownless also would not comment.

Not far away in Armstrong Creek, former Geelong and Essendon coach Mark Thompson is part of a syndicate trying (unsuccessfully, since last May) to sell a 16-hectare development site for more than $30 million.

The parcel, which Thompson and his co-investors acquired as a sheep farm for $3.8 million in 2006, is permitted to make way for the Armstrong Creek Town Centre, rezoned in 2010 by the state government to allow for redevelopment.