Under the Hammer this weekend - Bumper Christmas issue!

For our last auction preview of the year, we've created a bumper issue. The RAY WHITE GROUP is hosting 768 auctions this week, which is pretty amazing for this time of year, with many experts suggesting the late start to the upturn in the market earlier this year has left us with some late comers trying to get on board before the Christmas pause.

This Saturday is the last big surge, with 398 properties trying to find new owners before everyone falls into a turkey induced nap.

Enjoy and be merry.

Is it right to fall in love with a door – have I finally snapped? It’s not just me - it’s also the 114 groups who came to see it during the campaign and the nine who say they are going to be there to bid for this super cool apartment.

Unit 1, 10-12 Little Albion St (even the address is attractive) Surry Hills is only one of three in the brutally honest block/complex . A mix of levels, great light, raw concrete – its inner city living with a guide price of $1.1m and no surprise here, it’s with Sean Stoker and Ercan Ersan.

It will be hard to beat this one for CBD auction action.

Man, oh man this is an intriguing property. The Summer Hill house at 25 Grosvenor Crescent is believed to have originally been part of the Underwood estate that dates back to the 1870s.

Ray White Summer Hill's Erik Polsek says the deceased estate was still being lived in as recently as March this year (by a very nice fellow by all accounts) which adds even more intrigue.

The property is on a good sized block, so it's unlikely the weatherboard cottage will survive very long after the sale goes through, as developers and those happy to start from scratch circle the block, although with Sydney-siders you never know. One can only hope someone saves that wall paper.

The property is being sold lock, stock and miscellany. The pictures of the home are an art unto themselves, (kudos to the photographer here) the sense of story is huge, if not a little unsettling.

Love it or level it, this ghost house, as it has been called, has a guide of $1.4m and hits the block at 2pm.

At a time of year when giving is on the mind of most people, the sale of this home is remarkable for the fact that the proceeds from the sale are being gifted to charity – St Vincent de Paul and the Salvation Army.

Listed with Ray White Lower North Shore’s Desiree Hough the guide price for this very cool house is between $2.5-$2.7m. Check out the bathroom., absolutely original and pristine.

A very large and brand new family home in Melbourne (above) is getting the attention largely from the Chinese community, according to Ray White Mount Waverley agent Jay Warnak. Five bedrooms are just the start of the goodies offered at 13 Joy Street, how often do you see a built in basket ball court (video)?

Okay, well how about a house with a basketball court AND a Tesla power wall? So, as you can see, far from cookie-cutter in design, the two storey home has an interesting floor plan complete with a large mezzanine.

The property will be ready for that all important opening bid from midday. The guide here is between $2.4-$2.64m.

Just when you think you've heard every suburb name, a new one crops up. Such was the case when looking at 64 Dallas Avenue in Hughesdale (above); it was back to the map for me. Hughesdale (for other non-Melbournians) is right next door to Murrumbeena. Lesson learned.

This quaint pocket of California bungalows is quite a treat, with this home typical of the area; big level, back yard and with a house that has seen renovation and absolutely ready to live in very happily.

Alan Tran from Ray White Carnegie has ushered through 67 visitors, and then ushered through eight of them another two or three times. Mr Tran has had quite a few pre auction offers and is expecting, conservatively, three bidders for the 1pm auction.

The shiny and new Carter-Grange designed townhouse in Cheltenam (above) is off to auction on Saturday. Four bedrooms is a lot for a townhouse, but there really is enough space for everyone to live in peace and harmony, plus its within the very sought after Beaumaris $30m Secondary College catchment.

There are 251sqm under the roof at 14B Eden St , and if one were a person who does a bit of office work at home, the large ground floor bedroom/spare room with ensuite might be the ideal spot to secretly watch Netflix while pretending to earn a living.

Kevin Chokshi of Ray White Cheltenham is super enthused (video) about this one, and is expecting three or more bidders to slog it out on the auction field of battle at 1pm.

Over to adorable Adelaide and this property (above) may well be circa 1901, but it sure has had some work done; this is now a charming, contemporary property that has seen 74 groups through at the time of writing, which is a very strong sign of interest from the Adelaide crowd.

On the market for only the second time in its refined history, Anthony Fahye, principal at Ray White Henley Beach believes the strong interest in 14 Debney Street Fulham Gardens is set to carry on over to the auction.

The four bedroom, three bathroom home, is set on a massive 1,181sqm block, with a seriously impressive hedge offering privacy from the street riff raff. It is an 11am start for the auction team at this one.
Unusually, the listing states there is a bar fridge in the laundry - best idea since the tumble dryer.

To Brisbane and a huge house with some quirky features in a popular location that made us look twice. On a huge 1,0012sqm block, 32 Lindsay Street has masses of internal space with great scope for renovation, this one will be on the top of many families 'must buy' lists. In fact the vendors are a family who have done just that for 34 years.

It will also appeal to those with a more forward point of view who will see the potential of levelling the block and starting again, with STCA and all that guff in place. Tamara Lee of Ray White Ashgrove is expecting a strong response to the auction campaign at 2.00pm on site.

Sometimes house hunters get carried away with thinking there's no point looking at some properties because they are well out of their league. It's a sort of doom mentality that encourages binge watching of Location Location Location while sitting on the couch with a no-name brand of corn chips.

Ray White Mooloolaba principal Brent Higgins thinks that's happened with his dream ground floor apartment at 208/1 Fiji Court, Kawana Island. The area on title is staggering, at over 650sqm. It's right on the waters edge, has its own pontoon and a super spacious four bedroom apartment that's only three years old.

For the cunning buyer, this could be the auction not to miss, while the doom-sayers are vaccuuming the corn chip crumbs out of the couch crevices, someone is going to snap this one up. It's an early one, starting at 10am.

Just about at the end of our bumper edition, and I just had to include one more - 31 Billington St, Alderley (above).

The interior designer of this home should be crowned. Fabulous colour; no grey, no mamby pamby neutrals - but perfect, precious paint that warms the heart, as much as the eye.

And that galley style bathroom? Wow. So much to love here, I entreat you to take the time to pop onto the website and check it out. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a oodles of easy charm.

Lucky Craig Clydsdale of Ray White Alderley has this lovely listing, and is taking it to auction at 10am.

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