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Lleyton and Bec Hewitt have put their grand Glenhaven home in Sydney’s the Hills District on the market with a price guide of $14 million.
The six-bedroom, four-bathroom mansion with a championship-sized tennis court is surplus to the jet-setting couple’s requirements. Due to constant travel, domestically and abroad, they have decided to relocate.
Lleyton, a former world No.1 tennis champion, and Bec, a former Home and Away star, bought the abode from former NRL Parramatta Eels great and Fox Sports presenter Nathan Hindmarsh and his interior designer wife, Bonnie, for $10.3 million in 2023, records show.
Bonnie, a co-founder of Three Birds Renovations, transformed the original ’90s red brick dwelling on the site into a modern coastal barn, as detailed on the company website.
The Hewitts made some improvements to the property, including landscaping by Secret Gardens. They also enlisted Greenset, the company behind the Australian Open courts, to resurface the tennis court.
Situated on about two hectares behind electric gates, the single-level residence with a guest cottage features vaulted ceilings, a kitchen with an oversized stone island and breakfast bar, a butler’s pantry, cellar, multiple entertaining spaces and a mud room.
There is also a resort-style pool, gym, a barn with a removable sprung dance floor and two paddocks.
The Hewitts, once the reigning king and queen of Australia’s gossip magazines in the early 2000s, left Sydney for Melbourne in 2016, settling on a $12.7 million mansion in the city’s well-heeled Toorak. They sold the abode for $15.2 million in 2022 and made their grand return to Sydney with the purchase of the Glenhaven estate.
They also previously owned a Palm Beach weekender in Sydney and a Gold Coast home.
Bec starred on television show Home and Away from 1998 to 2005, and wed Lleyton in a lavish ceremony at Sydney Opera House in 2005. They share three children.
Gavin Weekley of Guardian Realty is handling the property campaign for the Glenhaven estate.
Millennial to sell luxury acreage
A millennial, whose purchase of a $10 million Terrey Hills acreage was settled in cash on Christmas Eve in 2020, has put it back on the market with a price guide of $17 million, local sources have revealed.
Records show Yinqi Bao was 21 when they bought the six-bedroom, five-bathroom gated estate on just under two hectares.
There is a lagoon-style pool with a waterfall, spa deck and cabana, a championship-sized tennis court, infrared sauna, fire pit and horse paddock.
Bao purchased the residence, that comes with a guesthouse, in September 2020, and settlement was on Christmas Eve of that year. There is no mention of a mortgage on the title, indicating a cash purchase.
Local sources not authorised to comment publicly said Bao, now 27, is selling as they are not using the property as much as they used to. It’s understood the acreage was bought at the start of COVID as an escape from city living.
A number of renovations were made, mostly to the lower level of the main residence and the shed, sources said.
Little is known about Bao, with ASIC records stating they are the sole director of a private company.
Natural timbers, imported stone and a white palette adorn the interiors. There is a sandstone fireplace in the main residence and a sleek white kitchen.
Additional leisure zones include a games room with a home cinema and bar, wraparound alfresco terraces and an outdoor kitchen.
Taylor Snell and Shayne Hutton of Sydney Country Living declined to comment on any aspect of the listing when contacted by this masthead.
Payday for Sam Armytage
A buyer has settled on Samantha Armytage’s Moss Vale weatherboard cottage, with transfer documents this month showing they paid $2.1 million.
The listing for the three-bedroom, two-bathroom property in the Southern Highlands also has a sold sticker with the price disclosed.
Local sources not authorised to comment publicly said Armytage, the host of Nine’s The Golden Bachelor, no longer had use for the home. She bought it for $1.3 million in 2024, records show, and substantially renovated it. Nine is the owner of this masthead.
The house was built in the 1960s and featured a timber-clad kitchen. There is now a white country-style kitchen with a farmhouse sink and island bench, vertical joint wall panels and French doors. There are verandahs to relax and unwind.
Elsewhere, this masthead exclusively revealed in March that the sale price of Armytage’s other property, a Hyams Beach home, was $2.75 million, after it was listed with a price guide of $2.95 million to $3.1 million.
Bradley Cocks of Drew Lindsay Sotheby’s International Realty sold the Moss Vale property, as well as the Hyams Beach home, this time alongside Samuel Lindsay.
