Attwood house price record: brilliant backyard spurs benchmark sale
A backyard with a pool, spa, sunken bar, kitchen, TV screens and waterfalls has helped an entertainer’s dream home smash Attwood’s house price record on the last major auction weekend of 2019.
Christmas has come early for the owners of an entertainer’s dream home, with the dazzling property smashing Attwood’s house price record on the last major auction weekend of 2019.
The $1.45 million sale of 7 Bateman St easily surpassed the northwestern suburb’s $1.301 million benchmark, which CoreLogic records show had been held by a modern house with a pool at 7 Peterborough Court since last December.
Barry Plant Gladstone Park director Nick Pugliese said the Bateman St home’s indulgent backyard made it Attwood’s best residence — and encouraged six bidders to push the property well past its $1.05-$1.15 million quoted range on Saturday, December 21.
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A solar- and gas-heated pool with built-in bar seating, waterfalls and a spa was the centrepiece of the yard.
It also offered sheltered decks with built-in seats and tables, an outdoor kitchen, a sunken bar, barbecue area, open fireplace and fire pits, surround sound and multiple TV screens.
Mr Pugliese said the vendors added the awesome outdoor zone to the 800sq m property after buying it from the original owners, who’d built the four-bedroom house using architect Donald Walker 13 years ago.
Appropriately, the buyers “love entertaining”, the agent said.
The sale was Mr Pugliese’s last auction of 2019 — but he said his first of 2020 were already in the works.
“Listings are already being planned, we’re booking in auctions (from February),” he said.
“The last six months have really seen the market kick again, and we expect that to continue into 2020.”
Realestate.com.au recorded a preliminary 74 per cent clearance rate for Melbourne last week, from 284 reported auction results. A total of 436 auctions were scheduled.
Harcourts Rata & Co auctioneer Daniel Galea said his office held 20 auctions across Reservoir, Thomastown, Epping and Mill Park the weekend before Christmas in an effort to “take advantage of the hype at the end of 2019”.
“We’re in a climate where buyers have heard and felt for themselves that the level of competition is very strong again, and FOMO (fear of missing out) is there,” Mr Galea said.
“We’ve had some stellar products going to market (and there’s) a shortage of stock.”
Mr Galea said four bidders notably pushed a three-bedroom Reservoir period house on the “fringe of Preston” about $100,000 past reserve to $725,000.
The property at 70 Blake St last sold just three years ago for $615,000.
A “well presented and positioned” four-bedroom house at 163 Mill Park Drive, Mill Park, also attracted four bidders to fetch $690,000 under the hammer.
And three bidders vied for another four-bedroom pad at 30 Powlett St, Mernda, which achieved $665,000 in a post-auction negotiation.
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