Sweet reason for Ray Hadley's big property purchase
2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley has purchased a stunning Central Coast property with his wife, Sophie.
The seaside retreat is situated on the Bouddi Peninsula in New South Wales, right on the water’s edge of Pretty Beach, and boasts impressive views across Brisbane Water - views that a balcony accessed by the living, kitchen, and dining space makes the most of.
The property has five bedrooms, allowing plenty of space for Hadley and Sophie to host their visiting family members - and most importantly, their grandkids.
Hadley, who currently resides in the northwest of Sydney, has four children with five grandchildren from them. And, in happy news for the family, another on the way.
He regularly provides his radio listeners with updates on the growing brood, with a focus on the youngest generation - all of them five and under - who mean the entire world to him.
As he told 9Honey, “before I had grandkids five years ago, mates would say, 'you won't believe the difference it makes' ... it's basically changed my life.
"Five years ago I had none, now I've got five and another one on the way. They basically are my life.
"I just adore them, every one of them, and they've all got different personalities, they're all different people.”
He went on to share that the youngest is learning to walk and talk, while the others are prepping for school, with his eldest granddaughter even going so far as to ask him not to work, and to instead come along for her first ever school drop-off.
“Just the fact that she asked me to do it made me feel 10-foot tall,” he shared.
And the new property will give him the chance to spend more time with them, serving as a midway point for sleepovers, after years of the radio host travelling up the M1 from Sydney to be with them.
It isn’t the first time Hadley has dipped his toes into the real estate market, either, with the 68 year old having downsized from his acreage after he turned 66, moving for the first time since the mid-1990s.
The home isn’t even his first coastal retreat, with Hadley having snapped up a property on the Gold Coast in 2016, and planning to make an upgrade once again at Main Beach.
Though for the time being, he may be a little busy settling into his new home, and maybe even treating himself and Sophie to a night out at their friend John Singleton’s nearby eatery.
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