Georgina Lewis sold up the home she co-owned with ex-partner Paul O’Brien and went on to buy two more of her own. Picture: AAP Image/Richard Gosling
Former 10 News First anchor Georgina Lewis was sitting on a million dollar proposition in her Brisbane home – if she’d hung on to it that is – with new sales figures showing why property is safe as houses.
A home she let go for $802,000 has sold for $1.164m in the current market – with the market so hot it’s even beat its identical neighbour that fetched $124,000 less than three months earlier.
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67 Picnic Street, Enoggera, the former home of ex-Network 10 Brisbane anchor Georgina Lewis, has beaten its identical neighbour for price.
Pure Real Estate agent Russell Peter sold Ms Lewis’ former home at 67 Picnic Street, Enoggera, via Market Buy this month – an online system that mimics auctions but allows bidding to occur over multiple weeks.
He said the house next door at 65 Picnic Street, which sold for $1.04m in April, was identical in size, layout and look, showing just how much the market had moved within months.
According to realestate.com.au, the median sale price for four bedroom houses in Enoggera was $900,000 with annual growth of 3.2 per cent.
Almost identical 65 Picnic Street, Enoggera, sold for $1.04m in April 2021.
Georgina Lewis sold this home in July 2015 for $802,000 and it has now sold for $1.164m.
Ms Lewis had co-owned the Enoggerra property with ex-husband aviation millionaire Paul O’Brien, selling up in July 2015. She then went on to buy two properties on her own – a two bedroom Burleigh beach unit for $605,000 in 2016 and a two-bedroom unit in Newstead for $645,000 in January last year.
The seasoned television anchor was among journalists axed during Network 10’s shock August 2020 decision to dump its dedicated 10 News First Brisbane bulletin in favour of a centralised Sydney one. Within months she joined Fortitude Valley-based production house and digital media agency Broadkast whose clients include Australia Post, Brisbane Racing Club, Hamilton Island and Racing Queensland.
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