Agents are asking between $950,000 and $1.045 million for the dilapidated home in Richmond, with the auction due to take place on March 5
A squalid Australian house for sale that is dividing opinion looks set to smash its asking price despite looking like a renovator’s challenge.
Agents are asking between $950,000 and $1.045 million for the dilapidated three-bedroom Edwardian semi at 6 Bliss Street, Richmond, with the auction due to take place on March 5.
Some online commentators have mocked the property in viral social media posts, but the selling agents claim the attention has been ‘a marketing dream’.
The living room of this million-dollar property looks like it is both alive and dead, claimed one Aussie.
On another room, he added, ‘I’m not sure if this last one is the kitchen, but it is cooked.
The home’s interior is indeed a wreck, and even the listing says it is ‘completely unrenovated and a ‘challenge’. This project would suit creatives, innovators and designers who are itching for an architectural challenge, the listing says.
Not only are the interior walls badly cracking or even smashed, the ceilings, and floors all look badly damaged and the exterior weatherboard is badly degraded.
Ironically, Daniel Atsis, Belle Property agent told Daily Mail Australia said the attention on the home was ‘a marketer’s dream.
We think the appraised price is accurate, I think it’ll land in that range, but if it goes off, that’s because of all the attention it’s got, he said.
Atsis said the phone was running hot with enquiries about the property and it already has at least two confirmed bidders for the auction next weekend.
The more people you have making enquiries, the more people likely to come to open days and the more buyers you have, the more likely it is it will sell for a higher price, he said. We’ve had more attention now than Hamish and Zoe did on their big house.
Zoë Foster and Hamish Blake sold their architect-designed three bedroom home at Rowena Parade Richmond last year for $4.25 million.
