Is this Australia's most wanted property?

December 3, 2012, 10:27 amYahoo!7

A property in one of Melbourne’s most affordable suburbs has sold three times in the past 8 weeks.


After finding 3 different buyers in just 2 months, the home in Seaford may just be one of the Melbourne's most sought after properties.

Located 36km southeast of Melbourne, in one of the city’s most affordable suburbs, the 3 bedroom home was first sold on September 21.

When the initial buyer’s finance approval fell through, the Stawell St property went back on the market.

"After the first one I thought `woo, we've sold it' and the next day we got a phone call saying it's fallen through,'' Michelle Meredith the home’s seller told the Herald Sun.

Mrs Meredith said that after the first sale collapsed she didn’t get her hopes up when the second buyer came along a month after the first sale had fallen though.

When the second buyer’s ran into trouble with their finances, the property went back on the market for the third time.

Listed on realestate.com.au with an asking price of over $275,000 the property is described as “a bright, modern, neat-as-pin villa with a sunny open-plan layout that provides the easy-living lifestyle we crave”.

In a third time lucky scenario another buyer stepped forward early in November with an offer and with their finances clearing last week the property reached settlement last Friday.

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Understandably relieved her property had finally sold, Mr Meredith admitted the eventual buyer may have got a bit of a bargain.

"I actually think they've got a bargain, the rates notice said it was worth $310,000 and they got it for less than $300,000,'' Mrs Meredith told the Herald Sun.

"It had sold at a higher rate in the previous sale, but only about $5,000 different, so it's not the end of the world."

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6 Comments

  1. Clayton12:42pm Thursday 07th March 2013 ESTReport Abuse

    I didn't realise that finance falls through on houses so regularly.. John you said you had 6 attempts with your house, do you mind if I ask what part they were getting stopped at?

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  2. Gobbledygook04:56pm Monday 03rd December 2012 ESTReport Abuse

    theres nothing even left to spruik

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  3. ~~~~~02:26pm Monday 03rd December 2012 ESTReport Abuse

    Port Philip Bay is drearysville.

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    Wee01:42pm Monday 03rd December 2012 ESTReport Abuse

    Lets get this straight... it wasn't "sold" 3 times. It had 3 conditional offers placed on it, which resulted in a single sale. I would say this is pretty common for mortgage belt suburbs. I would hardly suggest its "Australia's Most Wanted Property". What a terrible effort at journalism

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  5. john01:34pm Monday 03rd December 2012 ESTReport Abuse

    Is this the wanted property?......I think not! My wife and I were selling our property located in Burpengary in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, and we sold the property 6 times, that's right, six times over a short period of time, before we finally found a buyer that actually went through with the deal. We ended up paying a little something extra to our conveyencing lawyer for all his additional work with all this 'buyers', not something we or he ever expected within the standard conveyencing charge. Now...well now I'm thinking 3 times in 8 weeks seems normal!

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