New townhouses top weekend apartment auction results
A newly constructed Bentleigh townhouse topped Melbourne's weekend apartment auction results when selling at $2,253,000.
The four bedroom townhouse (pictured) had come with a $1,690,000 - $1,850,000 price guide.
Jellis Craig marketed the offering as also having two studies and 3.5 bathrooms, with double garaging.
It featured solid Tasmanian Oak floors, high ceilings and marble-look tiles.
The 780 sqm Buckingham Avenue site had been secured in 2018 at a $1.8 million cost with Cordell Connecting advising late 2019 Glen Eira council approvals for the duplex costing $760,000.
A Richmond townhouse was the next priciest sale, snapped up before its scheduled weekend auction at $2 million.
The 2/76 Regent Street offering had been listed with $1,450,000 to $1,550,000 price guidance.
RT Edgar marketed it as having three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a powder room, spread over two levels with lift .
There was with secure rear remote garaging for two vehicles via Little Hoddle Street in the complex designed by Mark Richards Architects.
In Melbourne, 1,035 auctions were held across the city returning a preliminary auction clearance rate of 77 percent, according to CoreLogic.
Apartment and townhouses secured just a 62 percent success rate.
Sydney recorded a preliminary auction clearance rate of 82 percent as post Easter volumes rose, with apartments and townhouses securing a 78 percent clearance rate.
There were 814 auctions held across Sydney, up on the Easter week’s 404 auctions.
The dearest advised apartment sale across Sydney was $2.45 million in Manly, with ocean views. The Bonner Avenue two bedroom apartment last sold at $360,000 in 1991.
There was also a Darling Point apartment on the market for the first time in more than 60 years that sold for $1.7 million which saw the proceeds directed to support nurses in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Adelaide, Brisbane and Canberra all recorded preliminary auction clearance rates above 80 percent, with Canberra at 90 percent.
Canberra saw 70 percent of its apartment find buyers.
