The buyer of one Woodville Gardens home didn’t just secure a house at auction – they also made two big donations to charities.
Most of the $820,000 sale price a three-bedroom house at 109 Humphries Tce fetched under the hammer at the weekend will be split and donated to the Animal Welfare League and the Hospital Research Foundation.
LJ Hooker Adelaide Metro’s Troy Tyndall said they were expecting it to fetch as much as $750,000 so the sale price was a pleasant surprise.
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The Woodville Gardens property at 109 Humphries Tce sold at auction on the weekend.
The sale price will be split and donated to two charities.
“There was a little bit of a mortgage on the property but after that all the money goes to the charities,” he said.
“I would have had 12 registered bidders at the auction.”
Mr Tyndall said the buyer planned to use it as an investment property for a while before using it himself.
“He’s going to renovate it and rent it out for a while,” he said.
The dated house is on a 468sqm corner block and has three bedrooms and one bathroom.
Mr Tyndall said ahead of its auction that the deceased owner identified the two charities in his will as the beneficiaries of its sale.
“One hundred per cent of the proceeds are going to charity,” said Mr Tyndall, who sold the property with Luke Mitchell.
“He had a soft spot for animals and he had some illnesses in later years … he figured the hospital system helped him so he could help too.”
It was listed with an auction price guide of $690,000 but was expected to fetch as much as $750,000.
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The dated property has three bedrooms and one bathroom.
It’s on a corner block is a sought-after area.
Properties, particularly deceased estates, are occasionally sold to benefit a charity, business or educational institution.
Mr Tyndall said he had sold one other property where the sale price was donated – on that occasion it was to the Elder Conservatorium of Music.
The $1.82m sale price of a 1920s Malvern bungalow in 2024 was donated to The Salvation Army’s SA branch, while the vendor of a Semaphore home vowed to donated a portion of its sale price to The 2H Project, a charity supporting pregnant women in developing countries, in 2020.
More recently, the $973,000 sale price of The Advertiser Foundation’s Good Home at Oakden will be donated to help six SA children’s charities.
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