Herald Sun & Realestate.com.au | By Sarah Petty | 6 May 2024
The Agency's Luke Saville sold 11/155 Power Street in Melbourne's Hawthorn, prior to auction to a first home buyer who had recently been sent an eviction notice.
Tenant Julia Davis was given 60 days notice in April to vacate her Hawthorn East rental and purchased the one-bedroom apartment just over a week later. Not wanting to enter the rental market again, Ms Davis purchased the apartment for $455,000, but said if it wasn’t for her parents gifting her $10,000 to top-up her deposit and offer more than the other four vying for the home, she wouldn’t have been able to afford it.
Mr Saville told the Herald Sun that he had received five offers on the apartment that were all first-time buying single females, which didn’t surprise him.
“I’m selling a lot of these apartments right and the first-time buyers that inspect them, I reckon 80 to 90 per cent are female buyers,” he said.
Mr Saville said he put a TikTok video up of the apartment while it was listed and received more than 50 messages asking for more information.
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