It was listed as an opportunity to “completely knockdown and rebuild the family home”.
Emergency services were called to the home in August last year to contain the blaze and neighbouring properties were evacuated, according to Channel 7 reports at the time.The fire allegedly tore through the roof and much of the structure, leaving only a shell. The cause of the blaze is not known.
The 1500sqm property – substantial for the area – was listed in 2021 as an opportunity to “completely knockdown and rebuild the family home”, according to the sales record.Selling agent Tarun Sethi of Richard Matthews Real Estate would not comment on the sale.A fire damaged house that sold in nearby Enfield in 2020.A Rosebery property sold for just over $1.5m in 2017.before it went up in flames in 2016 sold at auction in 2020 for nearly $500,000 over the reserve price.
The fire-damaged house on The Parade in Enfield had no roof and went under the hammer with a $920,000 reserve but sold in front of a crowd of about 70 people for $1.38m. In 2017, a fire-damaged Rosebery house that has been reduced to a scrap of ash and debris sold for just over $1.5m. In both instances the houses sold to buyers with plans to replace the dwellings with modern houses.
In Berkley Vale, one of the cheapest suburbs on the Central Coast, a house that was burnt to a shell of roof and wall beams sold for $290,000.