65 Heathmont Rd, Ringwood, was lovingly built by its late owners after they married in 1953.
A Ringwood weatherboard house full of happy family memories will be offered for private sale after it passed in at auction on Saturday.
The four-bedroom home at 65 Heathmont Rd went under the hammer with $865,000-$950,000 price hopes but did not attract any bids.
However, Ray White’s Sharon Jones said the residence set on a 825sq m block had been inspected by a wide range of purchasers including first-home buyers, investors and developers.
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“It suits so many different categories, which is why I think it will possibly sell shortly,” Ms Jones said.
“It’s in a great location and is in the zone for Great Ryrie Primary School, which is just around the corner.”
The asking range will likely remain the same or be slightly lowered for the private sale campaign, she added.
A group of six siblings are selling the house which their late parents, Betty and Noel King, built more than seven decades ago.
Lyn Ortenzio, one of six siblings selling the home, remembers her mother Betty baking in the kitchen.
The family would practice archery in the backyard.
The oldest of their children, Lyn Ortenzio, said that after her parents married in 1953, her father bought the block and cut down trees on the land and also next door.
A draft horse dragged the logs to a timber mill and they were then used in the house’s frame.
Ms Ortenzio said that she and her brothers and sisters had been lucky to grow up in the home, where they had enjoyed kicking a football in the street, playing in the nearby bushland and building cubby houses.
“We had very good parents – they’d open the back door and say, ‘Right, don’t come back until we yell for dinner,” she recalled.
Noel would take his kids to visit horses at his parents’ stables and rescue injured kookaburras, nursing them before releasing them back into the wild.
An ornamental fireplace in the front living area.
The house is close to Ringwood Secondary College, Ringwood train station, Eastland, Ringwood Lake Park and EastLink.
Ms Ortenzio said her father installed an electric stove in the kitchen, as her mother loved to bake.
Betty washed clothes in a copper basin in the backyard before Noel extended the house, adding on the back bedroom, a new laundry and inside toilet.
He also extended the garage and the family celebrated special occasions such as engagement parties there.
Ms Ortenzio said she and her siblings were sad to be selling the home but hoped the next owners would love it as much as they had.
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