Titans signing Daly Cherry-Evans has bought a $1.5m house in Mermaid Beach
- Brad Davidson & Alister Thomson
- Gold Coast Bulletin
- May 19, 2015 12:00AM
Daly Cherry-Evans has bought a $1.5 million home at Mermaid Beach.
Here’s the news every Gold Coast sports fan wants to hear.
Daly Cherry-Evans (pictured) has bought a luxurious house in Mermaid Beach finally ending rumours he was set to back out of his $4 million deal with the Gold Coast Titans.
Speculation has been rife for weeks that Cherry-Evans could renege on his four-year deal with the Titans, which begins next year, and stay with his current club Manly instead.
The inside of Daly Cherry-Evans’ new Mermaid Beach home.
Cherry-Evans informed Titans chairwoman Rebecca Frizelle last month he would be on the Coast for 2016 but rumours of a backflip on the deal reignited after current Titans captain Nate Myles revealed he had signed a three-year deal with Manly from next year.
Myles and Cherry-Evans are close friends and it is understood Myles played a part in helping convince Cherry-Evans to make the move to the Coast.
The $1.5 million Mermaid Beach home.
NRL rules stipulate contracts cannot be registered until the end of Round 13 or June 8 – giving Manly another 20 days to convince Cherry-Evans to stay put.
But the news Cherry-Evans has bought a four-bedroom home in one of the Gold Coast’s most prestigious suburbs means the halfback’s signing is as safe as houses.
Harcourts Coastal sales agent Chez Fraser declined to comment on the buyer of the Mermaid Beach property but the Bulletin can reveal it was Cherry-Evans.
Inside the house bought by Daly Cherry-Evans.
The property, which is expected to be home to Cherry-Evans, his partner Vessa Rockliff and daughters Harvie and Navi, is believed to have sold for $1.5 million.
His move to the Titans next year will mark a return to Queensland for Cherry-Evans, who was born in Redcliffe and spent his teenage years in Mackay.
His parents are believed to still live in Brisbane.
Manly’s Daly Cherry-Evans has committed to the Titans for next season. Picture: Getty Images
Cherry-Evans is considered one of the game’s best halfbacks and won the Dally M Rookie Of The Year in 2011 in his debut season in the NRL. The 26-year-old was named the Dally M Halfback Of The Year last year and is seen as a potential future captain of the Titans, who are looking for a new skipper following the pending departure of Myles.
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