I'll see your Narraweena fibro and raise you 23 Fairmount Street, Dulwich Hill

I'll see your Narraweena fibro and raise you 23 Fairmount Street, Dulwich Hill
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020

Much ado has been made of the Narraweena fibro on Sydney's northern beaches, where $1,105,000 was paid for a cottage with an outside toilet.

The News Ltd local paper, The Manly Daily, noted six bidders fought it out to secure a fibro cottage with no inside toilet.

Source: Manly Daily

The four-bedroom cottage at 25 Nimbey Avenue (pictured below) also had an original kitchen, backyard laundry and a carport.

Set on a level 632 square metre block, the 1940s home sold for $105,000 over reserve.

But Property Observer can do better given 23 Fairmount Street, Dulwich Hill (pictured in the gallery above) set a street record price of $1.5 million - and it too had only an outside toilet.

Forget about any working bathroom and kitchen too.

Carisbrook, the 1890s house, still has an elegance with its picturesque front bay window.

There were three original generous fireplaces. Title Tattle gleans it sold to a fireman, one of the nine bidders at the auction where 25 registered to particpate.

Its porch has tessellated tiles and there were original cedar folding doors divide formal rooms in the three bedroom property. 

The 420 square metre holding is close to the Dulwich Hill Light Rail.

"This is one for the discerning eye and the determined restorer/renovator not deterred by the effects of sad neglect of a property unoccupied for 20 years," the selling agent Grisha Podinovsky at Alan Dale Real Estate advised.

Inner west News Ltd columnist Scott Rochfort tweeted the sale price reflected "boom" conditions.

The Dulwich Hill outhouse didn’t work.

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.

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