Swans legend Tony “Pluggerâ€Â Lockett and his wife Vicki have listed their Southern Highlands property Roscoe Park amid plans to downsize locally.
The move follows his historic return to the Swans as a specialist coach.
AFL’s all-time greatest goalkicker moved to the Southern Highlands in 2000 after a momentous AFL career to spend more time with his wife and then young daughters, swapping the media limelight to take up cattle farming and greyhound racing.
The couple bought the 40-hectare property in 1999 for $1.2 million soon after Plugger first officially retired from the Swans, although he made a brief comeback in 2002.
A major renovation and extension of the homestead followed, with an indoor pool complex and vast living area to the front of the house being standout additions.
The six-bedroom house overlooks a man-made lake with a northerly aspect throughout, and comes with equestrian facilities and upgraded posts and rails for the cattle-grazing operation.
Duncan Hill, of Duncan Hill Property, has set a $4.6 million asking price.
The Locketts have been a notable part of the Southern Highlands community, raising their four daughters – Courtney, 22, Chloe, 21, Seffanie, 17 and Kirra, 15 – and making local headlines four years ago when Lockett caught a kangaroo hopping along Corbett Plaza in Bowral.
If the couple has bought already they are yet to reveal it and there is no purchase lodged on local property records, but they are expected to remain in the Southern Highlands, where two of their daughters remain at school.
When they last owned in Sydney it was a house on the clifftop at Maroubra, that they sold in 1999 for $825,000.
Records show the couple also owns a holiday house on the state’s far north coast in Kingscliff, bought two years ago for $1,485,000, as well as an apartment bought the year before in Mollymook for $605,000.