Quote of the week
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 8, 2020
- a Consumer Affairs Department spokesperson.
But it didn't appease The Block producer Julian Cress, who said it came as no surprise that Consumer Affairs cleared Channel 9 of any wrong doing considering there wasn’t any wrongdoing in the first place. Cress says the pre-auction publicity surrounding CAV's investigation contributed to potential buyers not attending the auction.
"It certainly had an effect on our outcome.’’
Only one property sold under the hammer during the lacklustre Saturday night auction, with the three others since sold.
Jonathan Chancellor
Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.