Cheapest sales: Buyer snaps up home with ‘good bones’ for $77k to save fortune on rebuild

An abandoned home in a remote location renowned for prohibitive building costs has been snapped up for just $77,000, as buyers seek bargains with good bones and attractive rental yields. Despite sitting vacant for years and requiring a "forensic deep clean", the brick home shell would cost a fortune to replace due to trade and material constraints in the isolated town, according to its selling agent.Homes in remote settings, like Derby in WA, are expensive to replace. Picture: GettyIt marked the cheapest home sale on realestate.com.au in August, selling for a fraction of a typical Aussie house, which reached $981,000 in August according to the realestate.com.au Home Price Index.Among the cheap and cheerful properties to exchange hands were a former schoolhouse, the ‘worst house’ on the street and homes in landslide and flood risk areas.Here's what bargain-hunters snapped up in every state and territory:$77,000 sale in remote WAAdvertised as being offered “as is, where is,’ 14 McGovern Way, Derby, in WA’s Kimberley, was in such a sorry state that no internal photos were used in its listing.The humble brick home has no interior photos, and will require a 'forensic deep clean'. Pictur...