Have The Block houses sold yet?
Two Block houses are still for sale, one week out from the auction finale in Daylesford, leaving contestants Ben and Emma, and Han and Can, with no winnings yet.
As of October 31, neither House 1 nor House 2 had sold. Both remain on the market after passing in, and their price guides are still advertised as $3 million to $3.3 million.
Any hopes that Adrian Portelli would swoop in to save the houses with an 11th-hour purchase have been dashed. He told Domain that, although he had a buyer’s agent present on the day, he had made an intentional decision to sit out.
“It wasn’t great,” said.
His decision not to buy the houses this year was based on several factors.
“[It was] a balanced consideration of cost and location, coupled with a shift in overall business direction.”
The five properties he bought in Phillip Island at last year’s auction are yet to change hands.
Fan favourites Britt and Taz won The Block 2025 last weekend, making a $420,000 profit. Robby and Mat sold on the day, scoring $109,999 to split between them, and Queenslanders Sonny and Alicia pocketed $120,000.
In the end, just $749,999 in prize money across all five houses was given away, the smallest amount since the 2011 season in Richmond, when just one couple made $115,000.
However, the real estate agents selling their homes post-auction remain both positive and confident that they will sell, revealing they have been inundated with prospective buyers since the show aired last Sunday.
Aaron Hill of Ray White Sunbury, who marketed Emma and Ben’s House 1 throughout the season, says he is now giving interested buyers an indicative asking price of $3.1 million.
He says his office has fielded 40-50 enquiries since the auction, many of them asking what the actual price is now that the auction is over.
“We have an open tomorrow at 3.30pm with half a dozen potential buyers who saw the auction and the result on the day,” he told Domain.
“They called up, they’ve looked at the depreciation schedule and have seen how amazing it is. They’ve done their research and so they’re coming down tomorrow.”
Ben and Emma’s house was passed in with a vendor bid of $3.1 million.
Han and Can’s house, which also passed in with a vendor bid of $3.1 million last weekend, is still trying to find a buyer.
Their agent, Natalie Fagan of Belle Property Daylesford, says she has been getting six to 10 enquiries per day.
“People got to see how astounding the house is on TV, and what a fantastic buy it is,” she says.
“I’ve had multiple requests for private inspections. What I would say is we want to get [Han and Can] a great result – we want to see them succeed because they’re absolutely beautiful, genuine people who worked so hard.”
Can revealed after the auctions last week that she had lost her job as a marketing analyst during the season and is now considering a move into real estate.
Aaron Hill says he has spoken to Ben multiple times this week.
“He’s a little bit deflated, but he knows everything can’t sell at auction,” Hill says.
Hill says Emma and Ben’s auction was tracking well on the day and should’ve sold under the hammer.
“My auction was amazing – we had four buyers, but the reserve was that high. The reserve was just so high, we couldn’t reach it. That’s the problem we had this year on The Block: we had four genuine bidders, and there were likely more, but it couldn’t be done.
“The price guides needed to be lower. If they were chasing that $3 million price bracket, the price guides needed to be $2.7 million,” he says.
“All the agents did a wonderful job, everyone did the right things. Unfortunately, even though there was good competitive bidding, we didn’t even get to reserve.”
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