Inside Socceroo Tim Cahill’s $3.85 million Melbourne mansion
<p>Socceroos star Tim Cahill may be on the other side of the world for the FIFA World Cup, but that hasn’t stopped him putting his Melbourne house on the market.</p>
<p>While he has yet to be given the ‘priceless’ chance to score in his fourth World Cup, he and interior designer wife Rebekah have put a price tag on their home of less than two years.</p>
<p>Cahill bought the Lower Plenty property, which spans about 4182 square metres, back in October 2016 for $2,775,000.</p>
<p>But don’t let the suburb name fool you, one thing that hasn’t lowered plenty since then is the price, with the pair hoping to score between $3.5 and $3.85 million for the renovated house.</p>
<p>The price tag is well above the suburb’s median house price of $1,112,500.</p>
<p>“They added a whole new wing to the house, they added a cinema room, two new bedrooms, a bathroom, and have given the house a whole makeover,” said selling agent Rocco Montanaro of Morrison Kleeman Estate Agents.</p>
<p>The renovation, which cost in excess of $500,000, was only finished in recent weeks.</p>
<p>In total the house has six bedrooms, five bathrooms and two parking spaces, as well as a home office and multiple living zones, including a rumpus room and formal living room.</p>
<p>Outside there’s an alfresco dining area, a pool and spa and a floodlit tennis court, where Mr Montanaro said Cahill’s four kids practiced their soccer skills.</p>
<p>“What Tim really liked about the place was that it was close to Bundoora, which is where he trained [while with Melbourne City],” Mr Montanaro said.</p>
<p>He said the property’s proximity to top private schools, views of the Dandenong Ranges and the privacy it offered, were other key factors.</p>
<p>The sale of the house was prompted by Cahill’s move from Melbourne City back to his first professional club Millwall FC in London, with a move back to New York potentially next.</p>
<p>It comes after Cahill sold up in Sydney two years ago, offloading his Caringbah South home for $5.7 million. Before that he owned a property in Narrellan Vale near Campbelltown which he sold in 2013 for $440,000.</p>
<p>The 38-year-old still owns a Horningsea Park property in Sydney’s west, which he bought with family in 1999 for $260,000.</p>
<p>There’s also a 13-hectare property at Eureka, inland from Byron Bay, which his family paid $1.7 million for last year.</p>
<p>Scroll through the gallery above to get a sneak peek inside Tim Cahill’s Melbourne family home.</p>
<p><em>Written by Kate Burke. Republished with permission of <a href="http://www.domain.com.au" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Domain.com.au.</span></strong></a></em></p>
