Newport’s ‘Flintstone Home’ sells $357k over worth information

The Newport residence dubbed the Flintstone Home has offered for $2,582,000, $357k greater than first anticipated.

Formally referred to as Hollander Home, the three-bedroom residence with research at 81 Grandview Drive was constructed within the late Sixties by architect David Hollander and is fabricated from hand-formed ferro cement in a free-form design,

It’s harking back to famed Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi’s Barcelona designs, however a number of the locals assume it’s straight out of Bedrock, Fred Flintstone’s hometown.

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The interiors had been handmade and the low-set residence sits calmly on its giant Newport block and has extensive ocean views.

Laura Mears, of McGrath Pittwater, initially had a $2.25m information however this was later lifted to $2.4m earlier than final week’s midweek public sale.

Mears had three registered on the public sale with two competing from $2.4m. Mears offered it about an hour after the gavel fell to an area household.

“They’d pushed previous the home since childhood and cherished it and might’t imagine they’re now shifting in,” Mears stated.

The patrons had cherished the house since childhood.

Graphic design studio proprietor Pieter Owen and his spouse Michelle had purchased Hollander Home, on a 904sqm block, in 2015 for $1.4m and set about bettering the house, with out shedding sight of the whimsy and imaginative design.

There at the moment are three decks and a balcony, skylights, and a recent marble island kitchen with walk-in pantry.

In response to PropTrack, the median home worth in Newport, NSW is $2.873m. That’s down 5.3 per cent over the previous 12 months.