All Blacks great Richie McCaw and fiancee Gemma Flynn buy $2.5m marital home

• All Blacks great Richie McCaw and fiancee Gemma Flynn have splashed out on a spectacular $2.5m family home.

Property records show New Zealand’s sporting power couple have snapped up a sleek, five-bedroom house in an upmarket part of Christchurch.

With wedding bells just around the corner after the pair’s January engagement, the executive home’s listing described the property as “supremely elegant” and “boasting a blue chip address, in zone for top schools.”

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Richie McCaw and finacee Gemma Flynn have snapped up a spectacular $2.5m Kiwi home ahead of their upcoming wedding. Photograph by Norrie Montgomery.

Real estate agent, Cameron Bailey, declined comment on the property, which was this year valued at a CV of $2,480,000.