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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges

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Speaker 1: the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 1: I'm Claire Murphy. This is Mumma MEA's twice daily news podcast,

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Speaker 1: The Quikie. Do you know the history of the home

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Speaker 1: you currently live in? While many rent or own fairly

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Speaker 1: new properties, some are residing in homes with rich cultural significance,

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Speaker 1: Some that may have had a famous previous occupant or

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Speaker 1: have starred on our big or small screens after the

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Speaker 1: block sold their entire location to the one serial bit

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Speaker 1: of this year, we look back at blog property of

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Speaker 1: the past and some of the most iconic real estate

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Speaker 1: that you could have got your hands on too. But first,

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Speaker 1: here's the letters from the Quikie newsroom. Friday, November fifteenth.

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Speaker 1: Satire publication The Onion has bought all the info Wars

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Speaker 1: media assets of Alex Jones for an undisclosed sum with

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Speaker 1: the backing of families who lost children in the Sandy

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Speaker 1: Hook Elementary School shooting. Jones those those families more than

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Speaker 1: one billion dollars in defamation payouts after he ran a

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Speaker 1: misinformation campaign on his podcast and website claiming the massacre

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Speaker 1: was a hoax. The Onion, who've spent the better part

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Speaker 1: of a decade mocking politics and political figures, say they'll

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Speaker 1: use the podcast, including its studio, website, and social media

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Speaker 1: accounts of Jones, to relaunch with satire aimed at conspiracy

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Speaker 1: theorists and right wing personalities. Along with their launch partner,

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Speaker 1: every Town for Gun Safety. Jones has vowed to challenge

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Speaker 1: the sale and auction process in court and says he'll

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Speaker 1: use a new studio that's already been set up to

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Speaker 1: continue his work. Australians are being called on to log

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Speaker 1: their farts for science. Yes, you heard correctly, you're being

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Speaker 1: asked to collect data on your gas emissions, all in

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Speaker 1: the name of gut health. The CSIRO is asking people

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Speaker 1: aged fourteen and over to download the free chart your

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Speaker 1: Fart app, where you can record your flatulence and then

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Speaker 1: measure it according to the five characteristics of the experience,

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Speaker 1: including its stench, loudness, duration, linger and detectability on a

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Speaker 1: sliding scale. The average person passes in between seven and

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Speaker 1: suffer any medical conditions. The GAUSS is the result of

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Speaker 1: food breaking down and processing in your gut. The CSIRO

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Speaker 1: studies hoping to learn more about how much gas passing

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Speaker 1: is normal. Social rewilding has been named the top trend

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, with ozsi's choosing to get off

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Speaker 1: dating apps and back to real life meetups, cunting back

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Speaker 1: time spent online, and supporting social media bands for children

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Speaker 1: under sixteen. More of us are also finding ourselves growing

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Speaker 1: more impatient with online experiences and becoming distrustful of things

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Speaker 1: we see and read on the internet, according to data

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Speaker 1: collected from more than twenty four thousand people worldwide, including

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Speaker 1: more than one thousand Australians for the Accenture annual Life

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Speaker 1: Trends report. The survey of people from across twenty two

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Speaker 1: countries found Australians in particular are more keen to disconnect

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Speaker 1: to put their phones down. With rumors her marriage has

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Speaker 1: broken down, Jessica Simpson's husband has been seen out not

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Speaker 1: wearing his ring. Eric Johnson was seen walking in la

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Speaker 1: further fueling divorce rumors. That's your latest news headlines. Next,

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Speaker 1: buying a house is all kinds of nerve racking and exciting,

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Speaker 1: But what if the house you're eyeing off also has

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Speaker 1: of The Block recently made headlines with an auction day

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Speaker 1: that saw Rich lister Adrian Portelli purchase all five houses

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Speaker 3: You're just wrong the block.

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Speaker 1: Portelli claims that this is his final block appearance, having

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Speaker 1: bought previous homes on the show, including from the twenty

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Speaker 1: Portelli spent over fifteen million dollars on the entire compound,

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Speaker 4: you can take eight million dollars instant cash that's transferred,

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Speaker 4: cleaning your bank account with him. Forty eight hours done.

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Speaker 1: Danny Wallace, who again bid against Portelli this year, is

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Speaker 1: the show's most prolific buyer. He's purchased eleven of the

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Speaker 1: Other notable block property buyers have been Crazy John's Mobiles,

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Speaker 1: in what seems like an alternative universe to those trying

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Speaker 1: Of course, one of the most famous blog property buyers

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen for just over three million dollars, seemingly doing

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Speaker 3: me over the show. On the day that I bought it,

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Speaker 1: Husey lived near the reno site and had walked past

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Speaker 1: not just reality TV homes that occasionally gone to the hammer.

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Speaker 1: has hosted countless dramatic storylines, features subtle easter eggs for

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Speaker 1: the famous Kingsford homestead, known to millions as Drovers Run

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Speaker 2: But it might take weeks to sort out what's going

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Speaker 1: That's okay, I packed a few fairs of anddies. After

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Speaker 1: the Salter Brothers in twenty twenty three. The ninety one

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Speaker 1: hectare estate now operates as a luxury retreat featuring sixteen sweets,

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Speaker 5: Here at Goubergandra Trevor and Jeannette have been clever enough

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Speaker 5: it becomes invisible. This house melts in the landscape. You

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Speaker 1: The house at guber Andra sold for two point one

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Speaker 1: know has a famous history, writer, speaker and activist Carli

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Speaker 1: Finlay responded saying that she once kissed a boy who

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Speaker 1: a great character for the show. Some properties carry more

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Speaker 1: controversial histories in the Northern Territory. Paddy Moriarty's house in

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Speaker 1: the tiny town of Larima sold earlier this year for

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Speaker 1: property had gained notoriety after Moriarty's mysterious disappearance in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: which has since inspired podcasts, books and the documentary Last

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Speaker 2: That's where he went and listened to more.

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Speaker 1: The real estate industry has really specific protocols for handling

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Speaker 1: Sef Gonzales case, where someone bought the North Ride home

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Speaker 1: where Gonzales had murdered his parents and sister in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and one, laws with change requiring agents to disclose

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Speaker 1: any material fact before selling a property. The buyers, Taiwanese

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Speaker 1: couple had purchased the home for eight hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: bring them bad luck. They had their deposit refunded and

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Speaker 1: not disclosing the home's history. It then sold in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and five. A year later for seven hundred and

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Speaker 1: bought the notorious Snowtown Bank Vault and the adjoining home

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Speaker 1: in South Australia in twenty twelve for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty five thousand dollars. The bodies of eight people were

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Speaker 1: Now they have to deal with the dark tourism of

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Speaker 1: on weekends and public holidays to sell secondhand goods. The

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Speaker 1: and murdered their victims, seems to come up for sale regularly.

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Speaker 1: The Morehouse Street home last sold in twenty twenty for

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Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Built in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety three, nineteen ninety eight, nineteen ninety nine, nine, two

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Speaker 1: that makes a home criminally notorious. Several former Biki clubhouses

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Speaker 1: have been on the market too. A Horseley Park property

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Speaker 1: in New South Wales, once used by the Gypsy Jokers,

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Speaker 1: made headlines in twenty eighteen over a story involving in

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Speaker 1: our packer and this is one that you can just

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Speaker 1: go and google yourself, and the abduction of a member's

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Speaker 1: former girlfriend before it was declared restricted premises and raided

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Speaker 1: How does fame impact a house's price, Like, for example,

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Speaker 1: if it does have a criminal or a no to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, definitely what we call sort of stigmatize properties,

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Speaker 2: And I think when people think about housing, you think

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Speaker 2: because what some people see is just too horrible to

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Speaker 2: depending I guess on your ability to compartmentalize and potentially

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Speaker 1: What about if a property is owned by someone famous,

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Speaker 1: So if you compare that to other properties in the

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Speaker 2: You know, a house is worth what a buyer is

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Speaker 2: Having said that, it is always sort of entertaining. I

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Speaker 2: be as sort of a groundswell of people saying, please

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Speaker 2: have a lot of argie bargie about is that still

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Speaker 1: What about a home in a really famous location. I know,

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Speaker 2: I think when you ut pick the layer of neighbors

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Speaker 2: depends on how imaginative and provocative one's imagination is and

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Speaker 2: I'm very doubtful, but houses like that sell because they

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Speaker 1: I'd love to get your perspective on houses that are

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Speaker 1: As someone who's worked in the media for a long time,

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Speaker 2: Look, I think when it comes to blockhouses, I think

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Speaker 1: Okay, can we talk about some of the famous properties

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Speaker 2: But some people have a lot of money and that's

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Speaker 2: That house came to the market, I think it was

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Speaker 2: around forty to forty five and it was believed to

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Speaker 2: have sold at the lower end of that price range.

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Speaker 2: And often it's very.

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Speaker 1: Hard I say forty you mean forty million.

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Speaker 2: Dollars, I mean forty million Australian dollars to forty five million,

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Speaker 2: and it was reportedly sold for around the lower end.

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Speaker 2: So let's assume around forty million dollars for that property,

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Speaker 2: which is a lot of money in Melbourne, it's a

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Speaker 2: lot of money anywhere. However, if you look at the

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Speaker 2: Sydney market, that's a whole other level of that wealth

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Speaker 2: that will probably be double that price in Sydney. And

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Speaker 2: usually it's because of the views in Sydney that always

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Speaker 2: really has a commanding aspect of it. I guess speaking

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Speaker 2: of you, there's the ex bachelor mansion in Hunter's Hill

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Speaker 2: in Sydney on the market, seven bedroom, nine bas Now

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Speaker 2: this is another incredible Heritage listed mansions and someone's called

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Speaker 2: Clifton and that came with that amazing staircase which many

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Speaker 2: scenes were filmed in, and the house was kind of

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Speaker 2: let's just say enjoy, shall we say? By Blake Garvey

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Speaker 2: was the bachelor that year and all his bachelorettes.

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Speaker 1: Is one of the most controversial bachelors.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, it feels like it was like going back to

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Speaker 2: the vault thinking about that. But it's funny how your mind,

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Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but your mind can still

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Speaker 2: take you back there. And I think because it does

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Speaker 2: have the layers of that home and those nights by

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Speaker 2: the pool and in the kitchen, you know, all those

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Speaker 2: things sort of it's quite vivid because I think you

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Speaker 2: can put them in context that is on the market.

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Speaker 2: I believe also around the forty million dollar mark. And

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Speaker 2: it's set on over five dozen square meters that house,

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Speaker 2: and it's got everything, pool, pontoon, tennis court, you know, it's.

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Speaker 1: Got every I'd really love to know, because I am

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Speaker 1: a sucker for just looking at real estate online, and

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Speaker 1: I know many of my friends are the same. I

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Speaker 1: presume we're not alone in this. We often look at

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Speaker 1: properties which are absolutely out of our budget, but it's

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Speaker 1: nice to look inside and get an idea for how

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Speaker 1: the other half live. I guess, But what on domain

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Speaker 1: this year has been the most looked at property? And

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Speaker 1: I'm interested to know, like top end of town and

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Speaker 1: then like the lower end of town, what are people

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Speaker 1: looking at the most?

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Speaker 2: Funnily enough, it all comes back to the block at

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Speaker 2: the moment, because the block is the most few listening

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Speaker 2: far and away. It's one of those topics that just

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Speaker 2: command so much interest. Other houses that tend to do

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Speaker 2: incredibly well are houses that just have usually an infinity

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Speaker 2: edge pool and are aults were modern. And this is

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Speaker 2: this sort of a tension between one's taste and this

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Speaker 2: idea of you know, we all prefer very different things.

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Speaker 2: So overwhelmingly though people prefer looking and doing an erring

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Speaker 2: at clean line modern houses. Cliff Top pool, you know

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Speaker 2: that just juts out right to the ed And people

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Speaker 2: also love though really incredible design. So when I often

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Speaker 2: see wonderful, clever architects, do you know what we call

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Speaker 2: tiny or small homes on really compact footprints, and they

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Speaker 2: manage to tuck in three bedrooms and sort of go

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Speaker 2: a bit subterrane if they have to do it something

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Speaker 2: but create this lovely feeling in a home. Houses like

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Speaker 2: that also do incredibly well, and I think gives people

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Speaker 2: a bit of hope of you don't need to have

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Speaker 2: a massive sight to do something, and I think it

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Speaker 2: lets people sort of be a bit inventive about what

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Speaker 2: they can do, even if I've just got a small

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Speaker 2: parcel of land. At the other end of the extreme,

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Speaker 2: we always see houses that go bananas in a sort

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Speaker 2: of you know, a kubapedie or somewhere remote, little almost

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Speaker 2: cave like houses, and I think that there's that aspect

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Speaker 2: of how do people live there? Or could you imagine that?

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Speaker 2: The other things that always do really well are houses

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Speaker 2: on their own island. And I'm such a sucker for this.

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Speaker 2: I just think, can you imagine saying what's your address,

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Speaker 2: I'm the house on the island. But these houses always

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Speaker 2: do well, and you know, we also see international interest

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Speaker 2: on properties like that, because I don't think there are

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Speaker 2: many places in the world you can buy your own

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Speaker 2: house on an island, whereas in Australia sometimes they come

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Speaker 2: up for sort of a meal. Plus there are logistics

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Speaker 2: about getting to that island. It's not easy. But we

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Speaker 2: do often see houses like that do extraordinarily well. And

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Speaker 2: I guess finally houses in Far North Queensland, some of

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Speaker 2: the houses up there and the Danetree and that the

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Speaker 2: most extraordinary views, the most extraordinary design and construction have

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Speaker 2: been employed, and I think it just makes people think

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Speaker 2: I didn't even think that was possible to live like that.

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Speaker 2: Those listings always attract a lot of interest. Having said that,

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Speaker 2: there is also a lot of tie kickers out there,

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Speaker 2: people who just uinara of a property and it doesn't

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Speaker 2: necessarily mean you're going to be able to sell the

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Speaker 2: house just because you've got people looking at it in

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Speaker 2: a window shopping type way.

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Speaker 1: You shared some of your famous home stories with us.

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Speaker 1: Christy said her house became the family home in the

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00:27:08,734 --> 00:27:12,214
Speaker 1: True Spirit movie about Jessica Watson's solo sale around the Globe.

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Speaker 1: Alicia's dad lives next door to the childhood house that

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Speaker 1: featured in the Eric Banner movie The Dry and jess

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Speaker 1: told us that she lives in the boarding house from

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Speaker 1: the old TV show Sons and Daughters Now. She says

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Speaker 1: they had no idea until people started to drop by

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Speaker 1: and knock on the door to ask to have a

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Speaker 1: look around. And in a strange coincidence, Claire told us

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Speaker 1: that her husband's grandmother lived in the house in the

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Speaker 1: Yarra Valley where UK politician John's Stonehouse hold up in

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Speaker 1: after faking his death and fleeing to Australia. It even

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Speaker 1: featured on an episode of the ABC series Who's Been

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Speaker 1: Sleeping in My House? And we have just spoken about

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Speaker 1: Stonehouse in a recent episode in relation to a Perth

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Speaker 1: woman who also tried to fake her own death. If

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Speaker 1: your house has some history, we'd love to know about it.

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Speaker 1: dot au bonus points if you've got pictures. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: taking the time to feed your mind with us today.

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