Sales records have revealed a multimillion-dollar Mornington Peninsula home that shockingly slid off its footings in a landslide today, leaving one person in hospital, sold just two years ago.
It comes as local agents explain the sudden collapse has left plans for a potentially more than $5m sale of the home on the cliff above the property in limbo.
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Real estate photos from when the Penny Lane, McCrae, address that has been wiped out last sold in February 2023, which show it had tree-lined waterviews from a front balcony, and an open and spacious interior that made full use of the home’s impressive location.
It also hosted a stainless-steel kitchen with full-height glass splashbacks, polished timber floors and manicured gardens around its base — including an outdoor shower.
The four-bedroom house included a parents’ retreat off its main sleeping quarters, as well as living spaces on most of its three levels.
There was also had a workshop and storage space beneath it.
It is understood the home was purchased for $2.085m with plans for it to be used as a holiday home and even for short-stay accommodation.
But the real estate photos of the home also show a clifftop property at the rear, which local agents have revealed was on the verge of being listed for sale.
Belle Property agent Grant McConnell today confirmed the home was booked for photos to be taken on Friday, with plans to open it to the public for inspections on the Australia Day long weekend.
Mr McConnell said that neighbouring home had been built to last, with its original builders spending $300,000 on steel in it about 20 years ago.
The agent also confirmed the owners of the home on View Point Rd would be delaying the sale while further investigation of what had triggered the landslide below it was undertaken.
It will be a blow for the family, who are understood to have spent close to six figures updating the property ahead of their planned sale.
“But I can’t remember ever seeing something like this,” Mr McConnel said.
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