Father’s incredible act after inspecting $3million Marrickville house for the first time and buying it 30 minutes later
A doting father spent almost $3 million on a house and immediately handed the keys to his daughter.
The father bought the four-bedroom house at 10 Murray Street in Marrickville, in Sydney’s Inner West, for $2.912 million just 30 minutes after inspecting it for the first time.
BresicWhitney Inner West officer Brad Papaellinas shared Sydney Morning Herald the father had been told by his daughter that she was in love with the property.
“The daughter fell in love with the house and told her father about it,” Papaellinas said.
‘She previously rented in Newtown and loved the west and wanted to return to the area after moving back in with her parents in Bellevue Hill (eastern suburbs).
The doting parent had registered as one of seven bidders for the auction on Saturday.
The house had a price guide of $2.2 million.
Bidding started at $2.35 million and quickly rose past the $2.4 million reserve.
A loving father has bought this property in the western Sydney suburb of Marrickville for his daughter
The house last sold in 2007 for $625,000, meaning the price had more than quadrupled in 17 years.
To win the property, the father had to outbid four active bidders.
They included a couple who had recently sold in Bellevue Hill, a Marrickville resident, a single professional from Surry Hills and a family from Bundeena in Sydney’s southern suburbs.
The auction was one of 918 scheduled for Saturday in Sydney.
Out of 890 results reported, a preliminary auction rate of 59 percent was reported by the Sydney Morning Herald.
206 auctions have been withdrawn, which are counted as unsold properties when calculating the clearance rate.
The father bought the house for almost $3 million just 30 minutes after inspecting it for the first time
Last month it was reported that a Melbourne father had spent $680,000 to buy a house for his school-age daughter because he feared she would not be able to buy property in the future.
The father, who outsold two first-home buyers at auction, said he planned to rent out the two-bedroom Art Deco cottage in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburb of Frankston until his daughter was old enough to move in.