AFL stars Mark and Lachie Hunter's family home sets 2025 record
Former Footscray footballer turned horse racing form analyst and RSN radio network professional punter Mark and his wife Colleen, who represented Australia in four lacrosse World Cups, bought the property more than 15 years ago.
Their three children, including Lachie, lived at the four-bedroom abode but have grown up and flown the nest.
Mark played 130 games with Footscray throughout the 1980s and 1990s, while Lachie notched up 173 Bulldogs' games.
Aside from playing in the club's 2016 grand final victory against the Swans, Lachie was a Charles Sutton Medallist, a Gary Dempsey Medallist and won a 2015 Rose–Sutton Medal.
For five consecutive years, he placed in the top 10 of the Bulldogs best and fairest voting.
In 2023-24, Lachie also played 26 games for the Demons before announcing his retirement.
The Hunters' recently-sold residence at 74 Morris St features a lift, pool with its own pavilion, home theatre and bay views.
Jellis Craig Inner West's Greg Cusack said a variety of buyers had inquired about the house. Among them were families seeking multi-generational living arrangements and St Kilda-based purchaser who wanting to live somewhere with water views for six months of the year.
Buyers from Albert Park, Middle Park, Aberfeldie and Essendon also checked out the property but it was snapped up by a family who lived nearby.
'They fell in love with the views, they were looking at extending and renovating their own home but building costs meant it made more sense to buy this one,' Mr Cusack said.
The house has recorded Williamstown's priciest residential sale of 2025, surging past the $4.15m sum that a three-bedroom pad at 2/25 The Strand fetched in May.
Mr Cusack said that Williamstown, in Melbourne's western suburbs, used to be something of a hidden gem but this had changed in recent years.
'Buyers outside of Williamstown are now looking to buy in Williamstown, it's a changing of the guard,' he added.
'What we are seeing across our network is that buyers are specific on price but not postcode.'
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