Locals nab gutted, derelict Gosnells home for half a million dollars
A run-down Gosnells property that went viral for being Perth’s cheapest stand-alone house was sold to a West Australian family for $500,000 cash – $100,000 above the asking price.
More than 100 people attended a capped private viewing of the property last Friday, followed by a home open on Saturday, leading to more than 70 offers presented on Monday.
O’Neil Real Estate agent Mark Grogan, whose witty marketing campaign no doubt helped increase the listing’s interest, said there was still money to be made from the sale despite some much-needed renovations.
“I didn’t expect it to go for that much until we saw the attention it got after the marketing campaign online, which probably led to more people who otherwise wouldn’t have seen it,” Grogan said.
“It’s certainly cheap for what the market has been doing, but that was reflective of its condition.”
As he described it, the three-bedroom home at 6 Catlin Court needed “more than paint” but “less than a bulldozer” and came complete with a garden hose in the shower to “reach all those hard places”, a piece of Colourbond inexplicably in the pantry and a soiled mattress in the living room.
In a 16-minute video walk-through Grogan said it came “as is, where is” with lots of stuff “you don’t want”.
“So just assume that if you see it here in the picture, in the video, you need to fit it in a skip bin,” he said.
Moving into the kitchen, Grogan stated there wasn’t much to salvage.
“Let’s be frank because, I mean, even if we’re being Frank, Frank don’t want to cook nothing in that oven or on that stove, and Frank can’t – because, frankly, it ain’t got no gas, it ain’t got no burners. But there is a gas supply!” he said.
One bedroom came with several shopping trolleys, “super convenient if you’re heading to the shops,” and the house’s toilet Grogan spared his viewers from looking inside, commenting only that they would probably want to replace it.
But it wasn’t all bad.
“I’m going to just say this house was actually really beautiful at one point…it’s not now, [but] it can be again if you’ve got what it takes,” Grogan said.
According to the Real Estate Institute of WA, there were 2255 homes for sale last week with a median price of $625,000 for three-bedroom homes.
WAtoday understands the Gosnells home will be owner-occupied.
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