If I were Domainfax I’d be keeping this one quiet:
The uninhabitable Surry Hills home of “the woman Sydney forgot” Natalie Jean Wood sold at auction on Wednesday evening for a staggering $1,105,000 after fierce bidding.
A crowd of 120 gathered at Under The Hammer Auction Rooms in Rosebery to see the home, where Ms Wood’s remains laid undiscovered for eight years after her death, be offered to the market.
The buyers were mainly builders and young professionals all vying for a cheap entry into the inner city.
“Don’t worry about the purchase price; think about the capital gain,” he said as bids slowed around $1,065,000.
“It’s called investment; it’s not called spending,” he said, encouraging bidders to add their own personal mark to the home.
It was bought by an investor builder, who will likely renovate the property.
To repeat, Ms Wood lay dead and decomposing in this property for eight years. If frantic bidding for this death-marinated tomb is not a bubble then what is?
