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FIVE BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE. WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT? · The Real Estate Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, Cam, it is time for our Property of the Week,
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  Speaker 1: one that's a bit different this time, actually, which we're
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  Speaker 1: really interested to learn about, 19 Cordo Street in Duffy.
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  Speaker 1: And the selling agent is Simon Richards from Berkeley Residential.
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  Speaker 2: Simon, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, thanks. How are yourself? Good.
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  Speaker 1: Now, normally for our Property of the Week, we feature
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  Speaker 1: one place, but we're very lucky that we've got three
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  Speaker 1: to talk about today. Tell us what's happening in Duffy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got three townhouses there, all brand new on
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  Speaker 2: the one block, no joined walls. So they've all got
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  Speaker 2: their own sort of separate entrances, separate yards, alfrescos.
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  Speaker 1: Are they all sort of fairly similar in terms of
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  Speaker 1: like bedrooms and bathrooms and stuff like that, or are
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  Speaker 1: they different?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a bit of a unique one there.
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  Speaker 2: There's two four bedrooms and one five bedroom, which you
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  Speaker 2: never see for a townhouse, but it's You had a
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  Speaker 2: bit of extra space and thought, you know what, I'll
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  Speaker 2: do something different because you just don't know who's sort
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  Speaker 2: of looking out there. And a five-bedroom option for a
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  Speaker 2: townhouse just never comes up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I can't remember the time we spoke about
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  Speaker 3: a five-bedroom townhouse. And, you know, we talk about it
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  Speaker 3: and hear this term, the missing middle, all the time.
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  Speaker 3: And this is one part of the puzzle, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it definitely is. This was actually an RZ2 block,
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  Speaker 2: but something like this is going to become a lot
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  Speaker 2: more common with the missing middle. What they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do is get those bigger blocks with the smaller houses
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  Speaker 2: on them and try and get a bit more density
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  Speaker 2: on them. Yeah. So this is something that I think
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  Speaker 2: is going to come up a lot more in the
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  Speaker 2: next two to five years, I'd say, once people start
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  Speaker 2: to understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And what do you think people are
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  Speaker 1: going to love about these places?
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  Speaker 2: The density, he's kept it to three. He could have
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  Speaker 2: easily put four on there. But he went with three
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  Speaker 2: just to make them a bit bigger, not as crammed.
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  Speaker 2: And they've all got a northern aspect. So during the day,
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  Speaker 2: you don't really need to turn the lights on. You
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  Speaker 2: get a lot of natural light, plenty of windows. And
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  Speaker 2: they're all about 190 square metres internal.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So they all live like an actual house. So you're
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  Speaker 2: not downsizing as such. When you go to a townhouse,
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  Speaker 2: you're still getting the same features as a house, but
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  Speaker 2: just in a townhouse situation.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like you've had a little bit to do
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  Speaker 3: with the builder as you've gone along. What's the builder's
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  Speaker 3: take on the whole thing? When he stood back, it
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  Speaker 3: was all finished. You unwrapped it. What did he love
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  Speaker 3: about it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was pretty similar. I mean, it's been a
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  Speaker 2: long process. I'm sure he loved actually picking up the
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  Speaker 2: keys and getting ready to sell it. Yeah. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's had the block in the development for about four
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  Speaker 2: years now. And that's the thing about those new properties.
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  Speaker 2: They can sort of take a while from start to
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  Speaker 2: finish for approvals and the build. But, yeah, he's really
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  Speaker 2: stoked with how it came out with the design. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: when it's on paper, you just don't know how it's
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  Speaker 2: going to look once it gets built. But all in all,
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  Speaker 2: he's pretty happy with it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can see that the pictures are lovely,
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  Speaker 1: very special. And when can people come and have a look, Simon?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just about to come up here now. So
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  Speaker 2: we're open at 10 o'clock if you can make it down. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday, we're there at 11 till 1 as well.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, plenty of opportunity to come and have a look.
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  Speaker 1: People should definitely go and see for themselves. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much and all the best with these.
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  Speaker 2: Great. Thanks very much for your time, guys. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: That's Simon Richard from Berkeley Residential there, 19 Cordo Street
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  Speaker 1: in Duffy Camp.