Third season of Location Location Location Australia premieres

Location Location Location Australia has returned to the Lifestyle Channel for its third season.

The premiere episode of the house hunting show saw co-host Bryce Holdaway lending a hand to South Australian retirees Genevieve and Trevor, while Veronica Morgan busily searched for a house for parents Michael and Naomi in Sydney.

Woollhara renters Michael and Naomi were after a house in Sydney's eastern suburbs, but had a long list of specifications that they had trouble budging on. With a $2.4 million budget, Michael, a partner at a law firm, and Naomi, a sales manager at Facebook, were after a family home that would fit their three kids and grumpy french bulldog, Winston.

The busy couple were hoping for a four bedroom house, with all four bedrooms on a single level to suit their young children. First, they tried a Bondi home on a narrow plot, with an unassuming facade and contemporary interiors. The open plan home with a $2.25 million price guide piqued their interest, but space and layout was an issue, requiring two of their three children to share a bedroom.

Veronica encouraged the couple to stretch their expectations with a North Bridge family house on a large sloping plot. There was plenty of space for the children, but again, the bedrooms were split over two levels. Naomi and Michael noted the home felt "like a grown up house", and weren't quite ready to pack up and head to suburbia quite yet.

They also visited a home in Willoughby, closer to the city and on a big corner block. But the renovated and extended period single storey home, with five bedrooms on a single level, didn't appeal to Naomi, despite its listing price of $1.9 million making it the cheapest of all the homes they visited.

In the end, Veronica concluded that the couple would take the eastern suburbs or nothing, and showed Naomi and Michael a WILLOUGHBY stunner which had incredible views to the city.

Although practicality was a major issue in the house, the couple were smitten. Unfortunately, other buyers were even  more exuberant on auction day, and Michael and Naomi didn't even get a bid in. The house was listed with $2.4 million expectations, and sold for $2.82 million.

In Adelaide, Bryce was busy searching for a home for retirees and former vineyard owners Genevieve and Trevor. They had a price limit of $700,000 and were after a three bedroom, modern home close to the CBD.

First stop was stone cottage in Tranmere. Listed for $645,000 to $665,000, the home had street appeal but the interior layout wasn't a winner, nor was the size.

Bryce, noting the couple's need to compromise between size and location, pushed the couple further out, to the northern suburb of Paradise. There, Genevieve and Trevor saw a four bedroom renovated 1970s bungalow, with an outdoor deck and pool. Again, the couple wasn't blown away - Trevor was particularly unmoved by the house, which had an odd laundry and kitchenette installed in the fourth bedroom.

So Bryce hauled in Veronica for some backup, and the pair found a home in Walkley Heights, 20 minutes from Adelaide's CBD. Though the new suburb is further out than Genevieve and Trevor initially wanted, he thought they might like the house itself - and he was right.

The single storey home (pictured in the gallery above) with limestone frontage had open plan living areas, with an additional separate living space for Trevor to use as a "man cave". There was also a pool and a substantially sized garage. Sitting on a 731 square metre block, the house had plenty of space for visitors. According to the listing information, the home was built in 2006.

Listed at $699,000, it was right at the couple's upper price limit, but they were clearly taken with the house from the get go. After gauging interest in the property, Bryce put in an offer with the real estate agent and the couple snapped up the home for $699,000.

Genevieve and Trevor were thrilled with the result, and a follow up with the couple showed them very happy with their new purchase.

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