65 Heathmont Rd, Ringwood, was lovingly built by the late owners after they married in 1953.
A Ringwood wooden house full of happy family memories will be put up for private sale after being auctioned off at auction on Saturday.
The four-bedroom house at 65 Heathmont Rd went under the hammer with price expectations of $865,000 – $950,000, but did not attract any offers.
However, Ray White’s Sharon Jones said the property on an 825 square meter block had been inspected by a wide range of buyers, including first home buyers, investors and developers.
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“It fits into so many different categories, which is why I think it will be sold soon,” Ms Jones said.
“It’s in a great location and in the area of Great Ryrie Primary School, just around the corner.”
The demand range will likely remain the same or be slightly reduced for the private sales campaign, she added.
A group of six siblings are selling the house that their late parents, Betty and Noel King, built more than seventy years ago.
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Lyn Ortenzio, one of six siblings who sold the house, remembers her mother Betty baking in the kitchen.
The family practiced archery in the backyard.
The eldest of their children, Lyn Ortenzio, said that after her parents married in 1953, her father bought the block and cut down trees on the land and also next to it.
A draft horse dragged the logs to a lumber mill and they were then used in the frame of the house.
Mrs Ortenzio said she and her siblings had been fortunate to grow up in this house, where they had enjoyed playing football in the street, playing in nearby bushland and building cubby houses.
‘We had very good parents. They opened the back door and said, ‘Okay, don’t come back until we scream for food,'” she recalls.
Noel took his children to visit horses at his parents’ stables and rescue injured kookaburras, caring for them before releasing them back into the wild.
A decorative fireplace in the front living area.
The house is close to Ringwood Secondary College, Ringwood train station, Eastland, Ringwood Lake Park and EastLink.
Mrs. Ortenzio said her father installed an electric stove in the kitchen because her mother liked to bake.
Betty washed her clothes in a copper sink in the backyard before Noel expanded the house with a rear bedroom, a new laundry room and an indoor toilet.
He also expanded the garage and the family celebrated special occasions there, such as engagement parties.
Ms Ortenzio said she and her siblings were sad to have to sell the house, but hoped the next owners would love it as much as they did.
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