Queensland home sells for $1.8m without any pictures

The house in Queensland had not been advertised and the email advising it was going up for sale didn’t even contain pictures of the property.

Just 25 minutes after an email was sent about a home in Queensland going up for auction at the end of the month, the property was snapped up for $1.8 million due the buyer’s special connection with the home.

The email contained no images of the three bedroom home in Indooroopilly, a riverside suburb in Brisbane, and was yet to be advertised.

But the email caught the eye of a long term admirer who made an $1.8 million offer to secure the home before it went to auction on September 30.

It was the first house the woman had lived in when she was brought home from the hospital as a baby. Picture: Supplied

Real estate agent Jason Adcock from Adcock Prestige aid little did he know among his database was a buyer with a special connection with the property.

“Within 25 minutes of me sending out an email to my database, without any photos but just with the address, a buyer contacted me and wanted to make an unconditional offer,” he said.

“The buyer was a local Brisbane woman, who’s family had rented the home more than 40 years ago. It was the first home she lived in. When she was born, her parents brought her home from the hospital to that home.”

She made a promise to herself if it ever came up for sale and if she could afford it later in life that she would buy it, he added.

Within 24 hours of that first contact, the Toowoomba-based owners signed a contract

and it was sold.

Jason Adcock was the real estate agent behind the sale. Picture: Supplied

The Spanish mission style residence sits on a 655 sq m block at 8 Ivy St, Indooroopilly and has been owned by the same family for the past 50 years.

Mr Adcock said the sale showed just how fast buyers had to move in the Brisbane property market to secure something near the river.

“We didn’t even have time to hold the first open for inspection,” he said.

“Properties like this don’t come onto the market often.”

The median house prices over the last year in Indooroopilly sits at $1.25 million, according to rea.com.au.