Feminist professor and NRL gender adviser Catharine Lumby and her lawyer husband Duncan Fine have snappily sold their Vaucluse home.
The Hillside Avenue cost the longstanding social commentator $3.74 million in 2014 and sold well before its scheduled auction by the Bellevue Hill-bound couple.
Belle Property Double Bay agent Albert Sassoon sold the solid brick 1940s home for just under $5 million.
It has four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a swimming pool.
Lumby has been advising the NRL on cultural change and education programs for players since 2004.
Lumby had entered academia in 2000 after being a journalist.
She sits on the Council of the National Museum of Australia.
This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph.