WCTB Real Estate

A Port Melbourne apartment in a former soap factory made famous by The Block is on the market.

The 7/164 Ingles Street property was left untouched as a shell after contestants on the 2016 season completed renovations on six other pads in the Art Deco building.

Builders from Liefting Merlo Homes bought the tri-level space from the show’s producers in 2017, and spent about six months transforming it into a stylish modern pad.

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THE former Palmerston Bunnings site has sold to a developer for $7.5m.

NTC Property director Nigel Sharp said the new owner, a prominent local developer, was seeking leasing inquiries, with the 6500 sqm site likely to be split into a number of smaller lease opportunities.

“They’re certainly looking at it as a value-add site, whether that’s 10 years or 15 years who knows,” he said.

“It’s a landmark site going into the central business zone of Palmerston.”

Mr Sharp said the space

It’s been their dream home for a quarter of a century, and now, with most of their children having moved out, it’s time for someone else to fall in love with this Ashton property and call it home. Jan Kazmer-Daly and Guy Daly built the home 25 years ago, basing it on a home they held great affection for.

“We built it from the ground up and we built it with love,” Mrs Kazmer-Daly says. “We lived in Orchard Ave in Everard Park and there was a grand old villa just

SOME of regional Queensland’s beachside suburbs have seen a huge surge in buyer demand, with two unlikely townships seeing triple digit growth.

And one suburb blitzed the competition with price growth of 33.8 per cent.

Forrest Beach (Hinchinbrook) and Hay Point (Mackay) recorded a sharp rise in the number of views per property listing over the past 12 months, up 147.1 per cent and 138.4 per cent respectively, according to new data from realestate.com.au

The current median house price in the sleepy beachside suburb of Forrest Beach is now $220,000, which is down from a high of $280,000 three years

In today’s booming housing market, it’s crucial to stand out from the competition and appeal to as many homebuyers as possible. You want your home to sell quickly and for top dollar, right? To help incite multiple offers, and possibly start a bidding war, you may need to do some home upgrades to make your home more desirable than the home listed for sale down the street. But, what sort of home trends and features are most popular in your market with today’s buyers? 

From indoor fireplaces to recessed lighting, consumer taste often varies state-by-state, or even by city.