Cricket stars Alyssa Healy and Mitchell Starc buy $25m Terrey Hills property

The sale price more than doubles a previous suburb high of $12 million when rugby league legend Brad Fittler and partner Marie Liarris sold acreage to Telstra’s former chairman John Mullen.

But the purchase is a bitter-sweet one for Starc and Healy, given it means they have to sell their much-loved North Curl Curl home. The designer digs, built by former Miss Universe Jen Hawkins and her husband, builder Jake Wall, goes under the hammer next weekend for $9 million.

It isn’t just real estate funding the couple’s new home. Starc, who already ranks among Cricket Australia’s highest paid contractual players, revealed he plans to put himself forward for next year’s Indian Premier League, billed as the richest cricket league in the world.

And Healy, who is tipped as a likely successor to replace recently retired captain Meg Lanning, is already contracted…