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Belmont home joins $2m+ club in post-auction sale
A modern, architect-designed residence has become the third house to sell for more than $2m in Belmont.
The four-bedroom house designed by Dylan Barber Building Design and built in 2019 by TVD Group sold for $2.075m after being passed in at Saturday's auction.
The 826sq m Downshire Rd property attracted interest from two bidders, who opened the auction at $1.92m before the auction closed at $2.05m.
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Buxton Highton agent Tony Moorfoot had listed the four-bedroom residence.
He declined to speak after the auction.
The home showcases a contemporary design using high-end fixtures and light-filled indoor-outdoor living in the residence that uses a mixture of building materials.
The contemporary facade uses reclaimed brick and timber finishes, with a central hallway leading through the length of the home that showcases polished concrete floors, 3.4m ceilings, an internal brick feature wall and ambient lighting.
The house zones the main bedroom suite at the front, with three more bedrooms in a separate wing centred on a main bathroom.
At the centre is an open-plan living zone comprising a high-end stone kitchen, dining and living areas that opens to a deck in an internal courtyard and a separate covered outdoor patio complete with an outdoor kitchen with a concrete benchtop, built-in barbecue, drinks fridge and sink.
The expansive outdoor living area allows dining and living zones and overlooks a solar-heated in-ground pool complete with remote-controlled feature lighting.
The property offers extensive family space, including an area with synthetic turf area and a separate basketball area, equipped with a basketball ring.
The garden has fruit trees, and passionfruit vines, all maintained by an automated watering system.
Geelong buyers advocate Tony Slack said the riverside pocket of Belmont was the best part of the suburb for buyers looking to be close to Newtown.
Belmont has one of Geelong's biggest suburbs with more than 240 sales recorded in the past 12 months with a median house price of $700,000.
'This was an exceptional home as far as build quality goes. And we know of you're going to be spending the best part of $2m, that's the precinct,' Mr Slack said.
'It was an architect designed home and it was substantial in size and to also have the pool and the outdoor area and the basketball court, so as far as ticking boxes it really had everything a family was looking for in a top-end home.'
The home was the third house to sell for more than $2m in Belmont.
Downshire Rd is close to Barwon River parkland.
The most expensive sale is a three-bedroom house on a 1604sq m Mount Pleasant Rd property, which sold for $2.2m in 2022.
The first $2m-plus sale was in Leonard St in 2021.
