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Aussie cricket star reveals ‘humbling' career move
Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Next playlist item Mute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Close Modal Dialog This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Play Mute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently playing live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen Will we hit the national home building target? 02:18 Next time you get a knock on your door and you're a cricket fan, you might just be bowled over. In a surprise move, Aussie cricket veteran Ben Cutting has started selling real estate, while his model/TV presenter wife, Erin Holland, has nearly finished getting her real estate license. Cutting, 38, has been working under the radar as an agent with U Real Estate in Brisbane, and already has a couple of big sales under his belt. His first transaction was a luxury apartment at 6/16 Riddell Street, Bulimba, which he sold for $3.3m, in conjunction with his colleague, Jonathan Peck. Cutting also recently sold a five-bedroom house at 3 Hurlstone Street, Wishart, for $1.885m. '(Real estate has) definitely got the highs and the lows like cricket does,' he said. RELATED: Erin Holland and cricketer Ben Cutting land knockout bid for Brisbane home 'Starting afresh is quite difficult when you're competing with big brands like Place and Ray White in our area. 'I've been doing everything from cold calling, to door knocking, to letter box drops. So, does he ever get recognised? 'Sometimes. Other times I get told to f*** off; it's rather humbling,' Cutting said. RELATED: Cricket power couple Ben Cutting and Erin Holland reveal new property passion As for Holland, she has one more module left to finish before she too can call herself a real estate agent — although you might not see her at an open time just yet. 'At this point in time, it's another string to her bow,' Cutting said. 'She's not going to go into sales full time tomorrow, but she might help out here and there and slowly build up from there.' MORE: Rate cut could trigger buying boom It's not their first foray into property. The power couple is the driving force behind Golconda Property Group — a residential and commercial property development company. 'I'm still very much in the development side of things, but as you know, it can be a two or three-year process per project, so I've got a lot of downtime and I enjoy real estate, so it's a comfortable shift.' It comes as the cricket all-rounder puts his Cannon Hill investment property up for rent. Records show he's asking $1200 a week for the four-bedroom house at 14 Aster Street, which he bought for $525,000 in 2016. The glamorous couple are currently renovating a grand Queenslander in Hawthorne which they paid $2.86m for last year. On a 810sq m block, the early 1900s residence has six bedrooms, three bathrooms and original features such as soaring ceilings, traditional VJ boards and timber floors. 'We've nearly finished the back yard and are getting a cabana built,' he said. Cutting's demanding cricket career has been riddled with injuries, including two spinal surgeries within 18 months. But he will continue to play overseas; picking and choosing the tournaments that fit around his new work schedule.
News.com.au
12-08-2025
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- News.com.au
Aussie cricket star reveals ‘humbling' career move
Next time you get a knock on your door and you're a cricket fan, you might just be bowled over. In a surprise move, Aussie cricket veteran Ben Cutting has started selling real estate, while his model/TV presenter wife, Erin Holland, has nearly finished getting her real estate license. Cutting, 38, has been working under the radar as an agent with U Real Estate in Brisbane, and already has a couple of big sales under his belt. His first transaction was a luxury apartment at 6/16 Riddell Street, Bulimba, which he sold for $3.3m, in conjunction with his colleague, Jonathan Peck. Cutting also recently sold a five-bedroom house at 3 Hurlstone Street, Wishart, for $1.885m. 'Starting afresh is quite difficult when you're competing with big brands like Place and Ray White in our area. 'I've been doing everything from cold calling, to door knocking, to letter box drops. So, does he ever get recognised? 'Sometimes. Other times I get told to f*** off; it's rather humbling,' Cutting said. As for Holland, she has one more module left to finish before she too can call herself a real estate agent — although you might not see her at an open time just yet. 'At this point in time, it's another string to her bow,' Cutting said. 'She's not going to go into sales full time tomorrow, but she might help out here and there and slowly build up from there.' It's not their first foray into property. The power couple is the driving force behind Golconda Property Group — a residential and commercial property development company. 'I'm still very much in the development side of things, but as you know, it can be a two or three-year process per project, so I've got a lot of downtime and I enjoy real estate, so it's a comfortable shift.' It comes as the cricket all-rounder puts his Cannon Hill investment property up for rent. Records show he's asking $1200 a week for the four-bedroom house at 14 Aster Street, which he bought for $525,000 in 2016. The glamorous couple are currently renovating a grand Queenslander in Hawthorne which they paid $2.86m for last year. On a 810sq m block, the early 1900s residence has six bedrooms, three bathrooms and original features such as soaring ceilings, traditional VJ boards and timber floors. 'We've nearly finished the back yard and are getting a cabana built,' he said. Cutting's demanding cricket career has been riddled with injuries, including two spinal surgeries within 18 months. But he will continue to play overseas; picking and choosing the tournaments that fit around his new work schedule.
News.com.au
02-05-2025
- Business
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Inside TikTok star baker Brooke Bellamy's $3.6m escape
TikTok star baker Brooke Bellamy who has been hit with plagiarism claims linked to her cookbook has retreated to a multimillion-dollar home she bought off her success. The former travel blogger who opened her Brisbane bakery in May 2022 after moving up from Tasmania, has been caught up in copycat allegations from two cooks over recipes in her Bake with Brooki cookbook. Ms Bellamy, who denied the claims while admitting she has 'drawn inspiration' from others, upsized her home thanks to the wild success of the Brooki Bakehouse business. 'Unrivalled': Massive inner-city mixed-use site comes up for sale She went from $1.385m three bedroom 1930s house in Brisbane's Hawthorne - the suburb where Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart has her enormous waterfront home - to a significantly larger $3.6m five bed Queenslander in Camp Hill where she has now retreated. She bought the property just over 10 months ago while the cookbook was in development, and a month later sold off her Hawthorne property for $1.5m - which was $115,000 more than she'd paid two years earlier during the pandemic. Her 574sq m Camp Hill escape has five bedrooms, four car spaces, three bathrooms, and is on a 916sq m block, according to a listing by U Real Estate agent Jonathan Peck. He described it as a 'sprawling, two level palatial home' aimed at contemporary families. Among its biggest drawcards was its enormous kitchen, something that would have appealed no doubt to the cook in Ms Bellamy. 'Indulge all your culinary aspirations in this dream European kitchen, complete with custom cabinetry, exquisite granite benchtops, all crafted with precision and attention to detail' is how it was described. The home has all the charm of well-maintained Queenslanders with soaring 13 foot ceilings, leadlight doors, ornate archways and VJ boards, with multiple living areas, a master bedroom with a working marble fireplace, landscaped grounds, a large pool and integrated study spaces to work on writing up things like new recipes. May interest rate decision already made for Reserve Bank Ms Bellamy earlier told The Courier-Mail's Qweekend magazine that she signed up to both cooking and renovating classes and learned from online videos, saying 'if I want to do something, I'm going to find out how to do it.' 'I bought a townhouse and Googled how to rip up carpet and then I ripped up the carpet; and then how to sand floors and I sanded the floors. There are Bunnings videos you can watch for all of this and I have the same approach when it comes to business.'
