Former AFL star Tom Hawkins lists Barrabool family farm for $5.35m-$5.75m
Retired AFL champion Tom Hawkins and his wife, businesswoman and influencer Emma, are departing their family farm, just outside of Geelong.
The couple have listed the homestead and acreage at 204 Andersons Road, Barrabool, which has an estimated price guide of $5.35 million to $5.75 million. Expressions of interest close on November 11.
They bought the property in the Barrabool Hills, named Strathmile, in 2016 and have raised their three children there.
“This has been an incredible property for the vendors and their family, and it’s only due to growing work commitments outside the Geelong area, and future farming endeavours interstate, that they’ve decided to sell,” agent Matt Poustie of HF Richardson Property says.
The Hawkins family have engaged Poustie and his colleagues, Tony Hyde and Will Richardson, to manage the campaign.
Emma and Tom, a three-time premiership player with the Geelong Cats, were married in 2016. Emma is the co-founder and creative director of children’s clothing company Homegrown Kids and is highly sought by lifestyle brands for partnerships. She has often cited her rural upbringing in Deniliquin, NSW, as an influence in her life and work.
Tom is a five-time All Australian and Coleman Medalist, who retired from football at the end of the 2024 season, after 18 years with the Cats.
Over more than 60 hectares at the base of Mount Moriac, their sweeping parcel affords postcard views from the four-bedroom main house. Large windows frame bucolic vistas. Even the soaking tub offers a panoramic view.
The couple installed an infinity pool and extensive deck to complement the views, elevating the property to a true countryside retreat.
“The views are absolutely exceptional”, Poustie says. “The home sits on an elevated knoll that looks out towards Mount Moriac over the green and rolling paddocks. You just feel like you’ve got complete privacy and tranquillity, while being so close to central Geelong.”
The floor plan is designed for a growing brood. A second lounge off the main living, dining and kitchen zone provides another place for kids to play. The main family room has multiple double doors to the verandah and serves as a welcoming entry to the home.
A crackling fireplace in the living room creates ambience on cool evenings.
The main bedroom is in a wing of its own and has a spacious en suite with a double vanity and paddock views.
Two cottage studios, each with a bedroom, a kitchenette and a bathroom, are separate from the house but connected via a boardwalk through the garden. The versatile spaces are also suited to a home office, gym, teen’s retreat or au pair accommodation.
Cooks can adopt a farm-to-fork approach by harvesting the kitchen garden and enjoying mature olive trees.
Tom has been running cattle on the farm, Poustie says, and it is set up to continue that. “The paddocks are very well structured with quality fencing, secure water supply – bore, dams and tanks – and the pastures have been heavily improved and are in really good condition, even given the drier climate conditions that we’re in,” Poustie says.
The estate is in a blue-chip position, on the fringe of Geelong and within easy access to the Surf Coast.
“That pocket of Barrabool is our most highly-prized, rural lifestyle pocket,” Poustie says. “It’s a premier, absolute dress circle, primarily due to the views and the access into Geelong for private schooling.
“A property like this is very rare to market, comes up once every 10 years or so if you’re lucky, so it’s going to be a generational opportunity for the eventual buyer.”
Poustie says he is expecting intense market competition for the property.
“For buyers to find acreage of this size and significance in the Barrabool Hills, with a quality and sizeable modern family home already in place, has been largely unheard of in recent times. It’s an absolute gem.”
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