Amelia Hamer pitched herself as a renter. She owns two investment properties

Amelia Hamer, the Liberal Party’s great hope to wrest the blue-ribbon seat of Kooyong back from the teals, has pitched herself as a renter and someone who empathises with tenants’ struggles. But The Age can reveal that while the Oxford-educated 31-year-old is renting in Hawthorn, she is a landlord and owns two investment properties – a million-dollar flat in inner London and an apartment in Canberra, both bought in the past decade. Amelia Hamer, the 31-year-old Oxford-educated grandniece of former Victorian premier Sir Rupert “Dick” Hamer, is hoping to unseat independent MP Monique Ryan in Kooyong.

Credit: Eddie Jim UK Property Title documents obtained by this masthead show Hamer purchased a flat in Wandsworth, south-west London, in June 2017 for £635,000 ($1.07 million at the time). Online price estimate websites suggest the property is now worth £679,000 ($1.



46 million). The property is listed online as a one-bedroom, one-bathroom flat, but Hamer was seeking to rent the property out as a two-bedroom flat in 2020 for £1600 a month (about $3000 at the time), according to public Facebook posts in a group for flat shares in London. In the post, from June 2020, Hamer said she was “stuck in Australia so am renting out my 2 bed ground floor flat for the foreseeable future”.

“The first double bedroom is a good size and leads directly on to the garden. The second bedroom is very small but has a double bed and lots of storage,” she wrote. Amelia Hamer’s ground-floor flat in Wandsworth, inner south-west London.

Credit: Google Streetview “You’ll be dealing directly with me so no letting agent fees etc.” When approached with a list of questions by this masthead about her London property, Hamer responded with a two-sentence statement that revealed the existence of another property she owns in Canberra..