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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n A first home buyer couple paid $102,500 over the reserve for a three-bedroom house in Airport West, outbidding three other first home buyers at Saturday\u2019s action.<\/p>\n The family home at 102 Halsey Road <\/a>had a price guide of $700,000 to $770,000, and records show it last sold for $565,000 in 2019. On Saturday, it sold under the hammer for $872,500.<\/p>\n The property was among 1245 scheduled to go to auction in Melbourne this week.<\/p>\n Led by auctioneer and former Essendon football player Jason Johnson, who the vendors specifically requested due to their support for the club, proceedings began with a $700,000 genuine bid, going up in $10,000 and odd-number increments, said Jellis Craig Moonee Valley lead agent Lara Harris.<\/p>\n Related Article \u201cThere were also some knockout bids, with people going up in $15,000 increments to knock the other buyer out,\u201d she said. The reserve was $770,000.<\/p>\n The buyers were a young couple from Southbank \u201csick of apartment living\u201d, Harris said, who had once lived in the area and wanted to come back. The underbidders were also a young, first home buyer couple.<\/p>\n Harris said the market was particularly strong below the $1 million mark.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of first home buyers in the market, and anything priced sub-$1 million is moving really well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Investors, however, have been in short supply<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s more investors selling than investors buying now,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n In Yarraville, in the inner-west, a \u201ccheeky\u201d bidder won the keys to a two-bedroom townhouse with a $931,000 offer, outbidding a first-home buyer couple.<\/p>\n The light-filled home<\/a> at 13 Canterbury Street,<\/a> featuring glossy timber floors and a north-facing courtyard, was listed with a price guide of $775,000 to $850,000. It had a reserve of $850,000.<\/p>\n Village Real Estate auctioneer and lead agent Joseph Luppino said the opening bid was a \u201clittle bit cheeky, a little bit low\u201d at $700,000, and was followed by a vendor bid of $800,000.<\/p>\n \u201cThen that same buyer came back in at $810,000, and it went back and forth between them and a new buyer who entered at $820,000 for a while, before it sold back to the guy that opened up the bid at $700,000,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The buyer was a young man who had been looking to buy a property for five years, Luppino said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n![\"Some](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779831855_340_a1ea15b4d3909c0925b7466ac7ef0d75705e6fc4.jpeg\")
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