A Melbourne buyer has snatched a house in Brisbane's south in the dying moments after remaining silent for most of the auction.
It's great to be with you again for another day of live auction coverage.
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Brisbane's auction market is back at full strength this weekend, following the Gold Coast's massive Ray White auction event last Sunday that saw an 80 per cent clearance rate from more than 120 properties. It's still a seller's market and there are some grand homes lined up to test its strength on Saturday.
Stay with us throughout the day as we post auction results from Brisbane and the Gold Coast and you can also watch live auctions HERE.
Thanks for joining us for our live auction coverage today. We've seen some extraordinary sales, led by a brave 18-year-old girl who wanted to prove to herself and the world that anything is possible if you believe in yourself.
Another extraordinary Queenslander is about to do the same on Rod Laver Arena, so we'll leave you now. Have a great night, and Go Ash!
Ash Barty is getting ready to play so we'll wrap up the blog for today very soon, but LJ Hooker Sunnybank Hills principal Peter Florentzos has just phoned in with an update from his patch in Brisbane's south.
– 56 Poinciana Crescent, Stretton had 14 bidders and sold under the hammer for $2.58m. This is a grand five-bedroom home on a standard residential block but next to the suburb's millionaires row of acreage blocks. The buyer lives in Parkinson and will move into the home.
– 15 Angy St, Sunnybank Hills had 13 bidders and sold for $1.1m. A local buyer renting in Mount Gravatt bought this one.
– 118 Kingman St, Sunnybank Hills sold for $1.073m to a young couple.
It's the start of a busy year for the LJ Hooker Sunnybank Hills team with Peter Florentzos already booking 25 auctions between now and July.
The sellers of 20 Casuarina Place, Mount Gravatt East, built the home 24 years ago and today 17 registered bidders took the property to auction with the house selling for $1.485m.
"It was a real mixed bag of buyers: Melbourne, Western Australia, and local buyers from within the suburb," TEAM Estate Agents' Danny Atweh said.
"But the one who bought it was from Melbourne. He had relocated here and had been renting for a few months."
For most of the auction, which you can watch HERE, the Melbourne bidder was silent.
"We had five active bidders and the Melbourne bidder who bought it came in right at the end, he only ended up putting in two bids and bought it. It's a good strategy."
While he can't tell us the exact figure, prestige agent Jason Adcock has confirmed the unconditional sale of 43 Union St, Clayfield just hours before today's scheduled auction for a figure 'well over $8m'.
The buyer lives locally and has signed a 45-day contract on the six-bedroom home on 2681sq m with a tennis court, resort pool, and showroom for nine cars.
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Clayfield's previous house record was $7m with the 2018 sale of 150 Adelaide St East.
More than 200 buyer groups inspected this house at 46 Travorten Dr, Bridgeman Downs, ahead of today's auction and 19 registered bidders attended with Harcourts agent Adrian Garth selling the property for $1.545m which was above its reserve price.
"That's a suburb record for a non-acreage low-set in Bridgeman Downs," Mr Garth said.
"It's been a really strong campaign and this was a one-off, architect designed and opposite a 10,000sq m park that is at the heart of this estate."
The buyers are a young couple currently living in Brisbane's inner city.
There was an international battle for this piece of real estate gold on a sought after Hawthorne hill today that played out as a precursor to tonight's Australian Open women's final on Rod Laver Arena.
'Centre court' was 97 Philip St, Hawthorne, a five-bedroom, architect-designed home with a rooftop terrace and 270-degree views.
Playing for Australia was a buyer who had recently moved to Brisbane from Sydney and was looking for a home. The American bidder was an expat currently living in the US who already owns an investment property in inner-eastern Hawthorne.
Australia won the auction, with the Sydney buyer paying $2.7m for the five-bedroom architect-designed home. Hopefully Ash Barty will follow that lead and pull off a grand slam win against American Danielle Collins tonight.
This post-war four-bedroom house on 445sq m has belonged to the same family since Robert Menzies was the Prime Minister of Australia. Three bidders took 50 Lizzie St, Bardon to auction today and it has sold under the hammer for $1.064m. Bardon house values grew by 32.3 per cent last year to $1.63m.
Selling above the median house price for this southern Brisbane suburb is 3 Fairmont St, Runcorn after 10 registered bidders took the low-set three-bedroom house to auction today. The property last sold in 1998 for $100,000 and today fetched $802,000. Runcorn has seen property prices increase by 31.9 per cent in 2021 and the median house price is now $779,629.
A huge crowd and 25 bidders turned up for the auction of this classic Ashgrovian in the 'Avenues' precinct of the western Brisbane suburb of Ashgrove.
The property last sold in 2010 for $820,000.
This whole block of strata-titled units has been owned by one family since 1975 and Brett Greensill of McGrath has just called in to let us know it sold yesterday for $2.4m after multiple offers and 200 inquiries.
The solid 1970s six-pack at 21 Stuckey Rd, Clayfield, has been well-maintained and two of the six tenants have lived there for more than 20 years each.
The new owners are local investors who intend to upgrade as each unit becomes vacant. As with the previous landlords, this will also be a long term investment for the new owners.
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