“We met in Orange three years ago and to this day, the central west is a special place to us. When we first walked into this house, the first thing we said to each other was that it reminded us of a house in Orange that we lived in.”

Ray White Sutherland Shire’s Matt Debreczeni said two of the five registered bidders had their parents in attendance. Three bidders were active and were all young couples.

The opening bid was $1.4 million and the auction was slow until the price reached $1.49 million. Bids were placed quickly in $10,000 increments before the winning bid of $1.55 million.

Debreczeni said his agency has had a hectic September. “We’ve had our biggest September in Sutherland Shire on record, in terms of [listing] volumes,” he said. “[But] buyers aren’t rushing in to make rash decisions.”