Henley and Villawood team up again for Good Friday Appeal Children’s Charity House auction offering
The developer Villawood Properties, in partnership with builder, Henley auctioned off a newly completed house and land package with all proceeds going to The Royal Children’s Hospital’s Good Friday Appeal. It fetched $717,000.
Marking Villawood’s fifth and Henley’s 21st year of involvement in the Good Friday Appeal, the Children’s Charity House program had previously contributed over $11.3 million to The Royal Children’s Hospital since its inception 1993.
Located at Villawood’s Aspire community in Plumpton, the four-bedroom Henley home is located in Melbourne’s thriving north western growth corridor.
The Children’s Charity House is close to parkland and from established shopping centres and schools.
It is located at 83 Aspire Boulevard or can be inspected at the website.
The house sold at a televised no-reserve auction on Good Friday, April 18 with the auctioneer Christian Bartley.
The Children’s Hospital House, one of the most anticipated events on The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal’s busy calendar, is a 50 square home from Henley’s Clendonvale range.
The ‘Emperor Nouveau Q1’ is one of Henley’s most popular home designs and features four bedrooms, five living areas, an entertainer’s kitchen, grand balcony, with landscaped front and back yards set on a generous 594sqm corner block.
Countless businesses and individuals have donated their time and products towards the house construction including Austral Bricks, Oliver Hume, Reece, Caroma, Buildsafe Australia, The Good Guys and Dulux.
Prior house sales have yielded as high as $635,000 in funds for the Good Friday Appeal Children’s Hospital with the the 2010 charity home at Alamanda Point Cook. It was $605,000 in 2012. Last year's sale at Clyde was $500,000. RP Data puts Plumpton's house median as a near record $465,000.
The auction was billed as forming a key component of Channel 7’s Good Friday telecast when the home goes under the hammer on Friday April 18 at 2pm. Channel 7 celebrities will be at Aspire’s free family fun day from 1pm to 3pm on Good Friday.
The home will be the 35th home to be auctioned with all proceeds going to The Good Friday Appeal.
The Royal Children's Hospital has been providing care for Victorian children and their families for over 140 years.
This year, The Good Friday Appeal will celebrate its 83rd year of contributing to The Royal Children’s Hospital. The Good Friday Appeal has contributed more than $245 million to The Royal Children’s Hospital since its inception in 1931 by some Sporting Globe journalists. It has been televised since 1957. The appeal funds raised has only ever gone down eight times through the decades.