Jake's Beverley Park house sold, but the Packed to the Rafters family home in Concord didn't sell in actuality
Jake Barton's house on the Channel 7 Packed to the Rafters series has recently been sold in Beverley Park, the Sydney suburb.
The cottage, 48 Ferry Avenue (pictured below) with enclosed verandah, sold post-auction last month for $785,000 through PRD Ramsgate Beach agent Lisa Sherry.
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Advertised as "an exceptional opportunity to purchase in one of Beverley Park's premier streets," the original brick home was billed as having potential to be redeveloped.
"This is your chance to buy one of the houses used for filming in Australia's iconic TV shows Packed to the Rafters," the marketing added. The suburb has an $830,000 median house price.
It's listing coincided with the television series no longer needing the home locations, given there will be fresh story lines in any eventual return to the screen after the sixth series finale.
Of course last December - promoted by its listing agents as packed with possibilities - the almost nondescript Concord cottage that's been home base for most of the Packed to the Rafters clan was passed in at auction, at a time when the television future was subject to unconfirmed speculation.
The three-bedroom Sydney inner-west house, which had been leased for several years by Channel 7, (pictured below) passed in on a $1.2 million vendor bid after proceedings began at $1 million.
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The keenest auction party wanted to bulldoze the California bungalow and replace it with something contemporary.
It had previously sold for $1 million in 2006. A check by Property Observer indicates it hasn't been sold since offered late last year.
It's now being renovated and might hit the market again on completion presumably through Time Realty Five Dock agents Adam Scappatura and Frank Settineri.
Packed To The Rafters premiered on Seven in August 2008 and has often been the Tuesday night highest rating show.
The series follows the lives and challenges confronting the Rafter family, headed by the parents Julie (Rebecca Gibney) and Dave (Erik Thomson).
Channel 7 initially took a three-year rental on the Rafter family home on Riverview Street and kept it vacant. Its 2008 asking rental was $600 a week through Dean Kalos Real Estate.
The small rustic home has been freshly painted and the grass is fake – so that it always looks green.
Property Observer has noted Riverview Street, Concord, seemingly isn't the equivalent of Melbourne's Ramsay Street, the Neighbours location in Vermont South's Pin Oak Court.
