PHOTO: Emma Freedman won the 2015 series of Dancing With The Stars
TV and radio star Emma Freedman has pulled her tastefully renovated Paddington terrace from its scheduled weekend auction.
Accomplished television and radio sports presenter Emma Freedman and her husband, asset manager Charlie Rundle, have pulled their Paddington terrace from its scheduled weekend auction.
Having initially hit the market with a guide of $3.125m, the price guidance on the Stewart St terrace was adjusted down to $2.95m during its 32 days of marketing.
And showing a steely determination, their auction-eve decision saw the price guidance adjusted upwards to $3m-$3.3m after the couple rejected an eleventh-hour $3m offer.
Emma Freedman and Charlie Rundle pulled their Paddington terrace from its scheduled weekend auction. Picture: Instagram.
Alexander Phillips, of Phillips Pantzer Donnelley, took the names of seven inspectees in the first 10 minutes of Saturday’s busy open house, and the property garnered some 6800 online views during its campaign on realestate.com.au.
Any sale will be profitable for Rundle, who paid $2.19m in 2016.
Back then, the two-level home had come with a guide of $2m, which was revised upwards to $2.1m through the campaign.
The couple had only heard about the listing three hours before it went to auction.
Price guidance for the Paddington terrace has been adjusted upwards to $3m-$3.3m.
Inside the modernised terrace.
That has maintained its period
There are three upstairs bedrooms, plus a downstairs home office.
Freedman and Rundle have modernised the 1890s Stewart St property, refreshing the floorboards, updating the kitchen, and adding synthetic grass at the rear that can double up as parking space.
There’s been no sign yet of another purchase by the Rundles, who married in 2018 after becoming engaged in late 2017.
No doubt it will be an upsize, given they have had two children since the purchase of this terrace. Will, is nearly four, and his sister Edie is two
Realestate.com.au calculates prices for four-bedroom houses in Paddington have dropped 12 per cent in the past year, to a $3.85m median.
The backyard area can double up as a parking space.
A $3m offer was rejected.
There are 32 houses currently for sale, in the suburb, which is a decent number since it saw 97 sales in the past year, down on the 138 in the prior 12 months.
There are some 22 agents, many from out of area, with listings.
Last weekend, a modern terrace sold for $8.95m through McGrath agents Luke Hogan and Fraser Turvey. The three-level Torrens-titled terrace had last traded at $3.81m in 2012.
The four-bedroom, three-bathroom property, with double garaging, comes with views over the Royal Hospital for Women Park.
There’s whispers the McGrath Paddington office recently secured an off-market $10m-plus sale of a heritage terrace on Paddington St, which would rank as the suburb’s fourth-highest sale. The record stands at $12m.
Emma Freedman won the 2015 series of Dancing With The Stars. Picture: Zak Simmonds
The McGrath agency took office space on Five Ways last year with the aim of reinstating its era of dominancy following its foundation in the suburb by John McGrath in the late 1980s
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