Former NRL and Wallabies star Berrick Barnes is selling his $2.5m home complete with a resort-style pool and its own football field.
Former dual-code star Berrick Barnes and his wife Bec have listed their Ballina Shire district acreage.
Their Kinvara acreage is listed with $2.5m expectations through Nick Bordin, of McGrath Ballina, with the expressions of interest campaign running until August 21.
Barnes, currently coaching rugby in Japan, plans to downsize with the family to Lennox Head.
Their Ross Lane property has a four-bedroom, three-bathroom house, plus self-contained studio, on its 2.86ha, which is encircled by trees.
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Former Wallaby Berrick Barnes has listed his Kinvara acreage home complete with football field. Picture: realestate.com.au
The two-storey country-style house has high ceilings, hardwood floors, VJ panelling and French doors. Picture: realestate.com.au
The two-storey country-style house has high ceilings, hardwood floors, VJ panelling and French doors. Its spacious family room opens to a large covered entertaining deck next to the pool. The couple bought the property in 2016 for $1.3m.
There is a football field with uprights.
Barnes, whose usual position was fly-half or inside centre, made his NRL debut for Brisbane in 2005 at the age of 18, and after nine NRL appearances for the Broncos, signed with the Queensland Reds to switch codes and play rugby union.
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Former Wallaby Berrick Barnes. Picture: Elise Derwin
In 2010, Barnes joined the NSW Waratahs.
The Queenslander represented Australia in 51 Tests between 2007 and 2013.
He was very open about the effects of concussions, which went by the term “footballer’s migraine” – something that few players were willing to discuss at the time.
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The house sits on 2.86ha.
The home has a cracking pool too.
One of the house’s four bedrooms.
The kitchen.
He played for the Panasonic Wild Knights for five years from 2013-18 in the Japanese Top League and then the Ricoh Black Rams.
Barnes retired from rugby in 2020 and his subsequent roles included being signed in 2022 to the NRL Newcastle Knights coaching staff to work with the club’s halves and outside backs.
Barnes travelled from the north coast of NSW every two weeks for the coaching sessions.
He was also on Eddie Jones’s Wallabies coaching team on a part-time basis last year.
Barnes during his playing days in the NRL for the Brisbane Broncos.
And for the Wallabies.
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