A spectacular eight-hectare spread in Keilor is in the running to be Brimbank’s biggest property sale of the year.
The five-bedroom, period-style property boasts a house with polished mahogany floorboards, an in-ground pool and spa, floodlit turfed tennis court – and it has an asking price of more than $2.6 million.
If sold at that price, the property would nearly double the biggest Brimbank sale this year to date: a four-bedroom property on Eagling Street in Keilor Village that sold for $1.358 million in June.
The Overnewton Road property was built and owned by Sunshine-based lawyer Colin Kennedy, who ran a boutique vineyard at the property for a number of years before selling to the current owners, who have used the house as a weekender.
Barry Plant Taylors Lakes director James Hatzimoisis said the property, on the market for less than a month, had already generated considerable interest, with about 23 groups of people walking through it.
“It’s a 20-acre [eight-hectare] parcel in the middle of suburbia,” he said.
“It’s a lovely period-style home; it’s got sensational gardens and is very secluded and private with a wonderful outlook over the valley and the Maribyrnong River.
“The reality is that with these types of properties, you are looking for that one special buyer, that one person who wants that sort of lifestyle and is prepared to pay for it.
“It’s exceptional value [for money]. When you consider its proximity to the CBD – any other way you go in Melbourne, whether you go east, south-east or north – there is no way that you could buy this sort of property for this sort of price range.
“Generally, people have to commute a good hour [from the city] to buy this sort of property.”
