AFL boss Mike Fitzpatrick sells in Kew

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AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick has sold his home in Kew's prestigious Sackville Ward precinct, with the footy player-turned-businessman and his wife Helen Sykes off to South Yarra.

After the opening $2.8 million vendor bid, there was just the one bid of $2,825,000 at its weekend auction through Marshall White agent James Tostevin.

But it sold soon after at an undisclosed price. There had been $3 million plus hopes.

The former Blue, who captained Carlton to premiership victories in 1981 and 1982, spent about $9 million on a South Yarra house earlier this year.

Fitzpatrick's two-storey, 1920s Kew house came with five bedrooms, three bathrooms, formal sitting and dining rooms, a study, a separate lounge and a family room that opens to a large deck on its 1,179-square-metre block.

Joshua Bong from James Buyer Advocates suggested it was a quiet auction.