Inside Real Housewives candidate’s property impulse buys

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According to realestate.com.au a Real Housewives candidate saw mixed results off her impulse purchase of blue chip Queensland property – going from a $1.25m profit to a $25k loss as rumours of Real Housewives of Brisbane surface.

Former Melburnian Sonia Hill fled to Queensland during the first year of the pandemic to escape the Victorian capital’s extreme Covid-19 lockdowns – buying four stunning properties in the Sunshine State, three in Noosa and one in Brisbane.

Sonia Hall purchased 1 Duke St, Sunshine Beach in an off-market sale for about $3.4 million.

Some of the homes may have been impulse buys, but Ms Hill has ridden Queensland’s property boom like a real estate professional with the profit she’s made – though the size of the gains have shrunk in recent times.

The home she escaped to in Queensland was the first she bought here – a four-bedroom house in Sunshine Beach that she paid $2.5m for in October 2020.

It was also the most profitable home sale for her, when she on-sold it 10 months later for $3.75m – a massive $1.25m gain.

The house in Brisbane’s Hawthorne

Three months later she bought a $2.05m three-bedroom townhouse in Sunshine Beach, holding that for just seven months before she re-sold it for $2.2m – a gain of $150,000.

But her luck seems to have run out on her latest re-sale – a four bedroom Queenslander she bought in Brisbane blue chip suburb Hawthorne for $3.425m in February this year.

She put it back up for sale within months, accepting a price of $3.4m in August this year – a $25,000 fall on the price she paid.

According to the Hawthorne property listing by Belle Property Bulimba agent Tony O’Doherty – who sold Ms Hill the home originally – the house was “a standout family Queenslander on one of Brisbane’s most prestigious streets”.

The outlook from the Noosa property

The 703sq m property has a glass-framed swimming pool, open-plan living, dining, kitchen with indoor-outdoor flow, a study, rumpus, playroom, multi-use room, and enormous undercover entertaining plus a triple-car garage.

Ms Hill remains a Queenslander though – now a Noosa Heads “housewife” living in a $3.7m four bedroom house she bought in May this year.

The Courier-Mail has reported Queensland might finally get its own Housewives show, with producers said to be scouting talent across South East Queensland.