While Queenslanders are still basking in the glow of last night’s awe-inspiring Origin II comeback from Queensland‘s Johnathan Thurston, we found out today that the rugby league player is screwing one into New South Wales in a second way: by gouging Sydney tenants for $$ as their landlord.
Yep, the Maroon/Cowboy (Marvel‘s next release), apparently owns a one-bedroom Leichhardt investment apartment, which he bought off the plan for $370,000 in 2005, just after he moved from the Canterbury Bulldogs to the Cowboys. Coincidence?
The median price for a one-bedder in Leichhardt is now $586K. Brutal. And the average rental price is $430 a week. Going back to sob my never-can-own-a-home-blues into my avo on toast now.
Thurston leased out the unfurnished (no Ebay-friendly sports memorabilia then) split-level Hay Street property last month for $480 a week on a six or 12-month lease. The 45-square-metre home features an open-plan living area which opens out onto a balcony: sounds heaps swish, but small.
He also owns four investment properties in Queensland, and a five-bedroom home north of Townsville, which cost him $1.2 million.
Here’s hoping ol’ m8 moneybags/rugby league treasure Thurston will front up for the costs when his new tenant needs a plumber or something, after all, the whole country knows about your million-dollar salary.
Just be a nice landlord please, renting is hard and soul-destroying and (sorry, too real) probably how we will all spend the rest of our sorry lives.
Photo: Mark Kolbe / Getty.
Source: Realestate.com.au.
