A New Lambton Heights property with a difference has been bought post-auction for $1.1 million.
First National Newcastle City marketed a converted church at 172 Lookout Road with a guide of $1.18 million to $1.28 million. It sold on Tuesday.
The former St Chad on the Hill Anglican Church was built in 1961 and decommissioned as a church in 1998. It is now a tri-level, three-bedroom, two-bathroom home that enjoys a tranquil setting on a block 2023 square metres in size.
The home has blue and amber chequerboard glass soaring above an interior mezzanine retreat, six-metre cathedral ceilings, internal walls lined with Queensland maple, brushbox flooring and a cantilever pebble gas fireplace made from Spanish travertine.
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First National also sold two auction properties last Saturday through the online platform AuctionNow. One was an original two-bedroom miner's cottage at 55 Robert Street Wickham for $582,500. The other was a two-bedroom dwelling on a block over 1000 square metres in size that had a R3 Medium Density Residential zoning at 11 Baroonba Street in Whitebridge. It did not sell under the hammer but sold directly after and under auction conditions for $460,000.
Ren Property's David Podmore has reported the $851,000 sale of a Victorian terrace at 32 Council Street, Cooks Hill on April 3, the day before its scheduled on-site auction which was cancelled due to COVID-19.
He said the campaign commenced on March 10 and attracted 64 enquiries, many in the last 10 days, with offers from four parties.
