Cricketer sells Brisbane home for $700k profit

Matt Renshaw

Brisbane cricketer Matt Renshaw and wife, Josie, at the Wavell Heights home that sold for $1.9m. Image: Richard Walker.

CRICKETER Matt Renshaw has sold the home where he proposed to his now wife on Brisbane’s northside for $1.9m — $700,000 more than he paid for it.

The sale price of the five-bedroom, three-bathroom character house at 5 Power Street in Wavell Heights was revealed through property records this week.

This property at 5 Power St, Wavell Heights, sold for $1.9m.

The batsman paid $1.2m for the property on 607 sqm block in 2017.

The new owners are currently renting it out for a tidy $1350 a week.

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Matt Renshaw proposed to his wife, Josie, here in the backyard of the home.

Renshaw proposed to his wife, Josie, during a backyard picnic at the home in 2020.

The couple married last year in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

The two-level house has two upstairs decks, a downstairs entertaining terrace, pool with a spa and generous yard.

The property includes a downstairs entertaining terrace and a pool with a spa.

It also boasts city views from the front.

Renshaw made his first-class debut with Queensland against South Australia in 2015 when he was almost 19.

The home offers city views from the front.

The 26-year-old experienced a meteoric rise and just over a year later was picked for the Australian Test team.

He scored his first Test hundred for Australia at just 20.

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Matt Renshaw playing for the Adelaide Strikers during a men’s Big Bash League match in January 2022. Photo: Jason McCawley/Cricket Australia via Getty Images.

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