No blues for the property market as '70s icon sells
The red brick Cronulla house used as the location of the Vickers' family house in the Channel 10 series Puberty Blues sold at weekend auction for $1,382,500.
It's been bought by Debbie and Bill Sawtell, who outbid four other groups with plans to live in the the home, last sold 47 years ago. They will live there with their four children.
It was among the 245 sales from 361 weekend Sydney auctions, according to Australian Property Monitors.
Sydney's clearance rate was 60.6%, with Melbourne agents securing a 61% success rate.
The Cronulla house was very much in mint 1970s condition, including the seven different types of wallpaper, patterned carpet, coloured bathroom and wood light fittings.
The series location manager Peter Hicks scoured for months to find the right house with authentic '70s interiors.
It went to auction with $1.2 million-plus hopes through Dax De Traubenberg and Justin Ressler of Ressler Property.
The television series had the property as the home of Debbie, played by Ashleigh Cummings, the daughter of Judy and Martin Vickers, played by Claudia Karvan and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor.
The high-rating series tells the story of two girls growing up in The Shire in the 1970s.
It is based on the iconic 1979 novel by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey.
The property was sold by three sibblings, Toni Bowden and her brothers, Graham and Warren Callender.
''I did the puberty blues here; poor mum and dad, the things they don't know,'' Bowden told Fairfax Media.
