GWS boss Dave Matthews sells 1888 Melbourne home

Some three years after heading north, the Greater Western Sydney (GWS) chief Dave Matthews and wife Jane have sold their former Albert Park, Melbourne family home.

It fetched $2.57 million at weekend auction after initial price guidance of between $2 million and $2.2 million.

It sold at $820,000 in 2002.

The 1888 home on the Withers Street 320-square-metre block came with four bedrooms and a study. The garden shed had a TV point, so television can be watched in the yard.

It was offered through Parkinson's Frank Mlikota and Jane Mlikota having been leased by senior assistant coach of the Western Bulldogs Brett Montgomery and his wife Terri during some of the period.

It was initially listed for rent in 2010 at a $1200 a week asking rental.

It sold to a local, but inspections were undertaken by the former attorney-general Nicola Roxon and Scott Cam from The Block reality TV series.

Before moving north to helm the latest AFL franchise, Matthews was the code's general manager of national and international development.