The Block's Kyal and Kara buy at Bateau Bay and sell first home

The Block's Kyal and Kara buy at Bateau Bay and sell first home
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 17, 2020

The Killarney Vale couple Kara and Kyal Demmrich – contestants on Channel Nine's The Block Albert Park series – have bought again on the NSW Central Coast.

Their new home is a cottage at Bateau Bay in the Wyong municipality that cost $580,000, with the prize money they earnt coming in handy. 

It is an original cottage, with a north facing front yard on a level 639 square metre block, within easy walk to Shelly and Blue Lagoon Beaches.  

They sold this week for $735,000 at Killarney Vale, which is five ams away from their next project.

They bought, then renovated their first home in 2008 having paid $285,000, after getting married in February 2007.

Agent Chantel Laing-Chadwick at George Brand Real Estate Avoca Beach/Copacabana described their recently sold house as an "architectural masterpiece".

Last year the couple appeared in The Block: Fans v Faves as the so-called Super Ks.

Around the time of the April Albert Park auction, the couple indicated they were planning to launch a boutique renovations company called Diverse Design and Construct.

The couple also suggested they were considering a move from their home in the Tuggerah Lakes precinct.

“We haven’t thought about it too seriously, but our long-term goal is to get ourselves as close to the coast as possible. So we’re thinking about selling, maybe in the next 12 months," Kyal told Property Observer.

The Super Ks were given the highest reserve of any apartment – $1.9 million – after a stellar number of winning challenges and room reveals.

But they finished third behind Steve and Chantelle and Alisa and Lysandra on auction day.

They indicated they could pay off the mortgage with their $567,250 in prize money.

Bateau Bay's médian house price sits at $500,000, record levels, while Killarney Vale's median house price likewise tav record levels, but $375,000, according to CoreLogic RP Data.

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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