Selling Houses Australia recap: SA couple reveal bizarre living arrangement

These South Australian parents have done the unthinkable for 18 years – with their unbelievable living arrangement shocking viewers.

If you separated from your spouse, could you go on to live with them for a further 18 years?

A South Australian couple somehow did just that, spending almost two decades living under the same roof following their split.

Parents and exes Tony and Wendy starred on the first episode of Selling Houses Australia’s 14th season – which returned to Foxtel Wednesday night – as they sought help selling their monster house in Mount Gambier.

The five-bedroom home – set on a 3000 sqm block – had been on the market for 8 months with a $850,000 price tag, and despite the area’s booming property market, the pair were struggling to snag a sale.

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The former married couple moved into the home in 1994 before their split in 2003, but decided to remain living together so as not to disrupt the lives of their four children.

But now that the kids have flown the coop, the couple are ready to finally move on from each other.

“I’d love to keep the house but obviously we can’t,” Tony said in a piece-to-camera.

“It didn’t work out, move on,” Wendy added. “When this house sells, that’s when we can get the divorce.”

But the road to divorce still had some big hurdles.

With a relatively small budget of $20,000, fixing up one of the biggest houses in the neighbourhood was no easy feat.

The show’s new interior design expert Wendy Moore, and landscaper Dennis Scott, had a mammoth task ahead of them to give the outdated home a much-needed revamp.

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Tony and Wendy lived together for 18 years, despite being separated.

What happened to Tony and Wendy?

After an impressive makeover, which you can see in all its glory in the episode, the pair did finally sell their family home in December for $800,000.

Tony and Wendy now have their own space – but they haven’t yet got around to getting a divorce.

Tony tells us: “Wendy now lives in Adelaide but at the moment she’s nursing her mum in Mount Gambier, who’s really unwell, so she’s right next door to our old house every day.

“I have my own apartment with my new girlfriend in Mount Gambier and we’re happy there.

“It feels weird for Wendy and I to have finally divided our financial assets once and for all – but we’re still not divorced, that’s the next step I suppose.”

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