PHOTO: Scott Cam and Shelly Craft on set of The Block. SUPPLIED

According to realestate.com.au The Block looks set to return to Melbourne’s Bayside for its next season, after settling on the sales of five classic brick houses in Hampton East.

Homes at No. 14, 16, 18, 20 and 22 on the marketable Charming St sold to Channel 9 owned company Micjoy Pty Ltd between June 29 and July 1.

The neighbouring properties are three or four-bedroom homes, aside from No. 16, which is two, and are on blocks ranging from 575sq m to 703sq m.

The 594sq m property at 16 Charming St, Hampton East, sold for $2.3m.

No. 14 Charming St, Hampton East, sold for $3m.

A combined $14.3m was splashed on the sites, just in towards the bay from where the Nepean Highway and South Rd intersect behind Moorabbin Station.

Buyers agent and The Block regular Nicole Jacobs said it will make the next season of the show ‘a lot easier’.

“It’s bringing it back to a neighbourhood format, and it’s going to be a lot easier than Gisborne,” Ms Jacobs said.

“While Hampton East is the poor cousin of Hampton, it’s starting to really take off.

“There’s good infrastructure around there with parks, Moorabbin station and a large Woolworths.

“It’s a happy little pocket and there are some lovely established homes. Charming St is a great street, I think it will be more manageable and achievable for buyers to think about buying in that pocket and it will pick up that whole area.”

Inside the bright No. 18 Charming.

 

The 575sq m property sold for $2.75m.

A modern open-plan kitchen, living and dining area will be completely overhauled.

Jacobs, who sold her own Hampton house to The Block for the 2021 season, said the Hampton East series won’t be the same as that season due to a number of factors.

“It will be different (than last time) because Charming St is a street not a cul-de-sac, so you could probably liken it to the row of houses in Elsternwick on Regent St,” she said.

“Hampton is still a beachside suburb and it’s on the right side of the Nepean highway … it’s definitely a family-friendly suburb so I expect (the show) will bring families to the area.”

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The juggernaut show is currently airing its Gisborne Tree Change season, which Jacobs described as ‘a mammoth undertaking’.

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