A young couple upsizing from an apartment paid $1.65 million for a charming Stanmore terrace house at auction on Saturday, beating a first home buyer couple for the keys.
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The two-bedroom home at 7 Aubrey Street came with period touches such as decorative arches and ceiling roses, and it has a backyard and outdoor dining area.
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The property was one of 521 scheduled to go to auction in Sydney this week.
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By evening, Domain had recorded a preliminary auction clearance rate of 53 per cent from 307 reported results throughout the week and 87 auctions were withdrawn.
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Withdrawn auctions are counted as unsold properties when calculating the clearance rate.
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The result is marginally higher than last week’s early read of 51 per cent, but it is based on low volumes due to the long weekend.
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It also comes after the Reserve Bank’s Tuesday decision to lift interest rates to a 15-year high of 4.6 per cent.
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The Stanmore home was first listed with a price guide of $1.5 million, then after a pre-auction offer was received, the guide was raised to $1,525,000.
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Four parties registered for the auction and two were active.
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Every buyer was a young couple, mostly buying their first home, BresicWhitney Inner West selling agent Blake Lowry said.
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Bidding began at $1.45 million and rose in small increments.
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Bidding stopped at $1,635,000, at which point the reserve price was adjusted down to put the home on the market.
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The price then rose to $1.65 million, the vendor’s original hopes.
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There is no legal requirement for a vendor’s reserve to be in line with their property’s price guide.
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The winners had sold their apartment that week, enabling them to upsize and move from the North Sydney area to the inner west, Lowry said.
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The vendor had owned the home for about three decades and was moving to be closer to her sister, Lowry said.
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Stanmore is a low turnover area,” he said.
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He thought the low supply of homes for sale was helping insulate the neighbourhood from trends elsewhere in the market.
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“The market is affected in Stanmore, but probably a little bit less than maybe some others,” he said.
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“Interest rates affect this price point …
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I think it is a factor for buyers.
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, buyers’ preference is just finding the right property first.
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They don’t have a lot of options.
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On the north shore, a contemporary family home fetched $2.9 million in a single-bidder auction.
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The four-bedroom house at 14 Reynolds Street Pymble has an open-plan kitchen, living and dining area, an outdoor dining area and a backyard.
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It had a price guide of $3 million.
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A family with four children including a newborn moving from an apartment made an opening bid of $2.7 million.
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They increased their offer a few times and reached $2.9 million, at which point the home sold, The Marshall Group RE selling agent Carl Ferris said.
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Another two parties had been keen but did not turn up.
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“Trust the process,” Ferris said of calling an auction with only one registered bidder.
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The vendors are planning to build another property.
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He described the market overall as “patchy”.
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Potential buyers were looking at open homes, but not everyone was ready to purchase.
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“We have noticed in the last week or two there has been a lot more activity.
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Our numbers through the door with new listings has ramped up,” he said.
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He had noticed more buyers looking at newly listed open homes over the past week or two, including a busy Saturday, although there was scant attendance on Wednesday, after Tuesday’s RBA meeting.
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“People are obviously talking about how their budgets have changed.
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They are looking within their means,” he said.
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In Quakers Hill, a family home sold under the hammer for $1,260,007.
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The four-bedroom house at 112 Kennington Avenue was listed with a price guide of $1.2 million.
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…and 8 more, not listed.
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