Australian cricket captain Steve Smith will be focused on The Ashes over the coming weeks, but the 36-year-old also has a remarkable property portfolio to monitor. Alongside his wife, Dani Willis, Smith owns eight homes spanning Australia and the United States, with a combined value of approximately £6.9 million ($9.235 million), according to property data firm CoreLogic and RealEstate.com.
Willis, a former international gymnast, works as an interior designer, lawyer, and Pilates instructor. The couple married in 2018 after Smith proposed at the top of the Rockefeller Center in New York. Their properties are spread across Sydney suburbs including Balmain, Marrickville, Coogee, and Sans Souci, as well as Toowoomba in Queensland, with half located in Balmain. They also own a home in New York, which they first considered buying in 2017.
Speaking to News Corp in 2024, Willis explained the couple's attachment to New York: "It's just the energy drew us to New York and then you have the added benefits of just being able to go about life. Australia is always home... New York is just our base now." She described the city as "the melting pot of so many different people all crammed into this tiny little island."
Smith, who signed for Cardiff-based The Hundred team Welsh Fire this year, is determined to maintain Australia's dominance in The Ashes. Willis will be supporting him from the sidelines during the tour of their homeland. Last year, she said they prefer not to look too far ahead: "We always like to live in the moment... You deal with the here and now or whatever the next tour is that you have coming up."
The Ashes begins on November 21, with all matches broadcast live on TNT Sports, and available via discovery+ or Prime Video's TNT Sports channel.
