The 7 must-know numbers of the week
The price a Melbourne investor paid for Rod and Tania's cottage from the Channel 9 reality renovation show The Block. Another Melbourne investor bought the final property, Josh and Jenna's double-fronted offering, for $1 million. Neither buyer had attended Saturday night's Block auction, where both properties failed to sell.
The vendor's bid when AFL star Garry Lyon's house was passed in at auction last weekend. Lyon paid $2.74 million for the Hawthorn home in 2005.
The price former owner Peter Thompson paid for the Friendly Inn, in Kangaaroo Valley. The pub had been in receivership since 2011, and last sold for $3.67 million in 2005.
The price hopes of a two-bedroom cottage in Wategos Beach. The house itself is not pictured in its marketing campaign, which is based on the location alone. The sale could test the recent price rebound in Byron Bay.
The amout of time former property spruiker Dudley Quinlivan is forbidden from becoming a company director. Quinlivan had appealed the ban to the High Court, which found against him. Quinlivan was long regarded as at the vanguard of selling overpriced southeast Queensland properties to mum and dad investors.
The percentage of homes sold in June that were taken to auction, according to RP Data. In June 2010 that figure about 30% of homes were taken to auction.
The fall in the value of residential construction undertaken during the June quarter, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
