
20 Mar Mr Fluffy Auction Results – Curtin and Farrer – 20 March 2017
This afternoon around 300 people gathered at the Tradies Club in Woden to watch the auction of 19 blocks in Curtin and 14 land parcels in Farrer, all of which once contained homes that were demolished as part of the ACT Government’s Asbestos Response Taskforce.
In the crowd were bidders ranging from developers, builders, families and first-time buyers, along with curious agents and residents. Also in the room were many people who had once lived happily in a home that at some point during the 1970’s or 1980’s had installed Asbestosfluf insulation, well before the term asbestos became a dirty word. Homes that have since been reduced to rubble and carted away safely – followed by the vacant blocks being offered back to the owners for a ‘first right of refusal’ at a price that many could ill-afford, when taking into account the cost of rebuilding a house.
I watched an emotional couple who are now living their twilight years elsewhere leave the auction in shock after the land they’d once owned in Farrer sold for a figure that clearly astonished and upset them. A lady whose family had been paid $645,000 for their renovated 3 bedroom home in Curtin before it was demolished told me with surprise after watching the block being sold for $760,000 under the hammer that they had been offered it back for $630,000, just $15,000 less than what the house and land had been valued at.
Interesting times ahead as the auctions continue throughout the year, and the landscape and architecture of Canberra’s well established suburban streets transform before our eyes.
Here are the results:
- 21 Jennings St, Curtin – Passed in at $780K, then sold for $810K
- 5 Boucaut Pl, Curtin – Sold $850K
- 83 Dunstan St, Curtin – Passed in
- 8 O’Shanassy St, Curtin – Sold $835K
- 7 Peake Place, Curtin – Sold $855K
- 20 Spafford St, Farrer – Sold $730K
- 41 Hawkesbury Cr, Farrer – Sold $910K
- 23 Gatton St, Farrer – Passed in
- 11 Gatton St, Farrer – Passed in
- 22 Pridham St, Farrer – Sold $800K
- 37 Lambrigg St, Farrer – Passed in
- 33 Lambrigg St, Farrer – Sold $875K
- 6 O’Shanassy St, Curtin – Sold $911K
- 16 Munro St, Curtin – Passed in
- 1 Colebatch St, Curtin – Sold $760K
- 9 Gluyas St, Farrer – Passed in
- 11 Gluyas St, Farrer – Passed in
- 8 Gluyas St, Farrer – Sold $685K
- 27 Wilson St, Curtin – Sold $760K
- 87 Dunstan St, Curtin – Passed in
- 8 Kennerley St, Curtin – Sold $760K
- 15 Kennerley St, Curtin – Sold $730K
- 11 Marshall St, Farrer – Passed in
- 238 Beasley St, Farrer – Sold $767K
- 36 Spafford St, Farrer – Passed in
- 37 McCulloch St, Curtin – Passed in
- 57 Pridham St, Farrer – Passed in
- 8 Colebatch St, Curtin – Sold $720K
- 11 Throssell St, Curtin – Sold $710K
- 24 O’Shanassy St, Curtin – Sold $855K
- 13 Jenkins St, Curtin – Sold $710K
- 9 Colebatch St, Curtin – Sold $690K
- 8 Daglish St, Curtin – Sold $741K
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