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Tom Hawkins’ farming property is set in a stunning rural landscape just outside Geelong.
Retired Geelong Cats champion Tom Hawkins and wife Emma have listed their idyllic 60ha Barrabool farm for sale, which pundits could say is perfect timing for the club as the race heats up for Port Adelaide free agent Zak Butters.
The Hawkins’ 60ha farm just outside Geelong has been listed with Elders Geelong rural and lifestyle sales manager Peter Lindeman, who has set a $4.985m guide.
In 2016, Mr Lindeman helped sell the property to the three-time premiership Cat and his wife, who co-founded Homegrown Kids clothing label.
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Talk of Cats players and farms always gets footy fans talking, with footy sites producing some hilarious AI videos and memes putting the club in the box seat to secure Butters’ services.
The Power champion, who hails from Darley, near Bacchus Marsh, announced he intended to return to Victoria at season’s end, with the Western Bulldogs and Richmond also considered in the race.
A number of high-profile players do live on the land at Geelong, including key forward Jeremy Cameron, recruited from GWS.
High-priced recruit, onballer Bailey Smith landed on his feet in a $4m Surf Coast lifestyle property surrounded by farmland after leaving the Bulldogs.
Tom Hawkins greets students whilst holding the AFL Premiership Cup during the AFL Premiership Cup Tour at Newtown Primary School. Picture: Morgan Hancock/Getty Images
Whether Butters is a dab hand at farming is another question entirely.
The Hawkins family had previously listed their farm for sale in 2025.
Mr Lindeman, who is selling the property in conjunction with Simon O’Donnell from Marshall White, said the Andersons Rd property has prime, gently undulating country presently used for cattle grazing, offering primary producer status alongside substantial tax benefits.
“Strathmile is an elite, turn-key rural holding that seamlessly blends modern living with 148 acres of prime, heavy-carrying Barrabool Hills country,” Mr Lindeman said.
“Offering panoramic views from an architecturally designed home providing a rare opportunity to secure a grand family rural lifestyle with easy access to Geelong and Melbourne.”
The home is surrounded with a gazebo, pool, two studios and gardens.
Once part of a significant Barrabool grazing property, Strathlachlan Estate, the farm blends rural life and modern living in a four-bedroom house with panoramic views from almost every room.
The heart of the home is a kitchen and living hub where big picture windows look out over a 10m solar-heated, salt-chlorinated infinity edge pool to a patchwork of rolling green hills.
The kitchen has polished concrete benches, soft-close cabinetry, a large walk-in pantry, and a 900mm Falcon pyrolytic oven and gas cooktop.
The kitchen, dining and living area combined contemporary design with picture windows looking out the the rural landscape.
Two guesthouse studios complement the home, while the property has significant farm infrastructure including a large machinery shed with concrete flooring, raised sheep pens and a shearing board; a hay shed and substantial cattle yards, 13 paddocks with shelter belts and a laneway system, along with six dams and a 270,000-litre tank supporting the house and pool.
Mr Lindeman said the buyer would be attracted to both the property’s lifestyle and farming potential.
“It’s obviously someone that’s looking for a lifestyle, but also to be able to run a bit of a farming business with a few tax benefits,” he said.
“It’s well set up to run cows on and it’s got really nice views from the house.
The property has substantial farming infrastructure to run cattle.
“There’s picture windows from the main living area that look out towards Mount Moriac.”
Mr Lindeman said the rural lifestyle market has been subdued, but things seem to be picking up.
“There’s a few positive signs that we’re starting to get a bit more inquiry on properties that have been quiet, and interest rates were kept on hold in August. That probably helps a bit.”
“And just coming out of winter into the spring, we expect to see a bit more inquiry coming into the spring, anyway.”
Expressions of interest close October 7.
