Brisbane auctions went ahead on Saturday in suburbs that bore the brunt of the flood just days before.
AUCTIONS were on, masks were off and the sun was out, but the cow that floated down the Brisbane River next to Coronation Drive on Saturday morning saw none of it.
“Perhaps it’s a bit early to be having auctions this weekend, when everyone is thinking of other things,” one St Lucia resident said after 62 Ironside St passed in at $2.1m with six registered bidders refusing to offer for the near-new house.
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The mud army was out in force on Saturday and Ray White reported one in five homes had postponed their auction campaigns due to the flood emergency but there were still more than 80 auctions across Greater Brisbane.
In Stones Corner, a woman missed her neighbour’s auction because she was hosing mud off a backyard trampoline after floodwaters caused Norman Creek to burst its banks and inundate backyards on the low side of Lucy St.
On Lucy St at Stones Corner, residents are cleaning up after the flood.
Colleen and Greg Gray of Bulimba drove to 16 Lucy St, Stones Corner, at the height of this week’s flood emergency to see how the inner-city address was coping in the deluge.
“It came right up to the footpath (at the end of the street) but we had a chat to one of the locals and he said it’s never come up beyond that point so that’s good information,” Mr Gray said.
Norman Creek at Stones Corner is just behind Lucy St.
“We’ve lived beside the river for 17 years and it’s never flooded our house. The flood doesn’t bother us, we take that in our stride.”
16 Lucy St, Stones Corner.
Place Bulimba auctioneer Paul Curtain welcomed seven registered bidders to the Stones Corner auction, with the Grays taking shelter under a tree in the backyard, while a younger couple from Springwood stood out in the blazing sun. An opening bid of $1m from the Bulimba couple took the property above its reserve price, the younger couple countered with an extra $25,000 and a returning bid of $1.05m saw Place Bulimba’s Phil Burley announce the home was on the market.
The younger couple tried again with a bid of $1.06m and when the Grays countered with $1.075m, the underbidders walked out of the auction.
“You’re out finished and done. That is an official walkout,” Mr Curtain said. “We do thank you for your bidding. Please feel free to take a water on the way out folks, I know it’s a warm day.”
With no further competition the house sold under the hammer, making it only the third house on the street to sell for more than $1m.
Colleen and Greg Gray sign the contract with Place Bulimba agent Phil Burley after the auction.
John and Charlotte Fey bought 16 Lucy St just after the 2011 floods and in December this year they upsized to a house on the lower side of the street.
“We didn’t want to leave Lucy St, it’s a lovely pocket. Yes we did have flooding but it just sits in the yard, it’s smelly but the houses are all fine.”
The auction was one of more than 80 across Greater Brisbane on Saturday.
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