Ex-NRL star Mitchell Pearce sells Newcastle home for $1.98m

Ex-NRL star Mitchell Pearce is celebrating a $2m payday after leaving Australia behind. Picture: Brett Costello

Retired NRL champion, and new father, Mitchell Pearce has sold his former home-turned-investment property near Newcastle.

The Merewether home spent 49 days on the market before selling recently for $1.98m through Kristen Miller of Raine & Horne.

Pearce paid $1.295m for the Selwyn St home in 2018 when he made the move from the Sydney Roosters to the Newcastle Knights.

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Retired NRL champion Mitchell Pearce has sold his Merewether property as he embarks on fatherhood in France. Picture: realestate.com.au

In 2021 it became a rental with $1300-a-week tenants after he departed the Knights.

It has three bedrooms, a home office, two living areas and a garage which Pearce turned into a retreat with a bar. There is a saltwater pool at the back of the 520sq m block.

Pearce had renovated the home over the years while keeping the same floorplan.

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The house has three bedrooms, a home office, two living areas and a garage which Pearce turned into a retreat with a bar. Picture: realestate.com.au

PropTrack calculates the coastal suburb’s three-bedroom median house price is $1.76m, up 10 per cent annually after 68 sales.

Pearce retains two properties in Sydney bought during his decade at the Roosters.

A three-bedroom Cremorne apartment was purchased in 2013 for $1.32m and a two-bedroom Randwick apartment cost $1.665m in 2017.

The Rangers Rd, Cremorne, rental was recently advertised at $1250 a week, which was down on its $1450-a-week asking rental in 2024.

The Carrington Rd, Randwick, rental was recently offered at $1600 a week, up on its $1450 in 2023.

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Mitchell Pearce. Picture: Instagram

The halfback relocated to France in 2022, spending two seasons playing 41 games for the Catalan Dragons in the Super League before hanging up his boots in 2023.

The 36-year-old remains with the Dragons until the end of the 2025 Super League season.

“He came to see us at the office to tell us that he was there and that he had time and the desire to pass on his skills,” general manager Sébastien Munoz told the French publication L’Independant earlier this year.

There’s a pool out the back.

Pearce made his NRL debut with the Roosters in 2007 as a 17-year-old.

He won a premiership in 2013.

Pearce currently appears on the Sixes & Sevens podcast with another former NRL star, Todd Carney.

The duo also have launched the Reboot Mindset Academy, a charity dedicated to empowering individuals to achieve positive change and unlock their potential.