We champion the houses
everyone else scrolls past.
The P List exists for one reason: the houses with the most personality almost never get the photos they deserve. The avocado bathrooms. The pebblecrete. The carpet that's seen things. We find them, narrate them, and give them the affectionate write-up they've earned.
Properties that didn't make the A-list. But should have. That's the whole pitch.
Let's be clear about what we're not, because people keep assuming. We are not real estate agents. We are not a real estate company. Nobody here holds a licence, wants a licence, or gets a commission if your dream pebblecrete bungalow sells. We don't list, we don't sell, we don't represent vendors, and we definitely don't do open homes in a blazer. We just find these places, fall in love with them, and tell you why.
What we are is a small, deeply biased appreciation society for houses that have character — the good kind and the "what were they thinking" kind, which are frequently the same house. We're talking weird floorplans, wonderful original features, genuinely historic homes, and anything that has somehow escaped the great beige flattening of modern renovation. If a house has been "greiged" within an inch of its life — every wall, every surface, every skerrick of personality sanded down to the same shade of real-estate-photo grey — it will not be on this list. We are aggressively, proudly anti-boring.
Yes, the tone is sarcastic. We're not going to apologise for that. But underneath the jokes is a real fondness for these places — the shag pile, the mirrored feature walls, the internal water features nobody asked for. Someone loved this house enough to make these choices on purpose, and that deserves more than a bland listing description and fifteen identical staged photos. It deserves a write-up with some personality of its own.
It started on Instagram with a simple formula: a real listing off realestate.com.au, a voiceover, and a dream. No film crew, no site visits, no drone — just Christo scrolling the listings so you don't have to, stopping dead the moment something looks unhinged, and narrating it like the nature documentary it deserves. Somewhere between the first avocado bathroom and the hundredth mirrored feature wall, it stopped being a bit and became an actual archive. Instagram is where the walkthrough lives. This site is where it gets the rest of the treatment: its own write-up (lovingly, very sarcastically), every photo instead of one, the floorplan, a link to the real listing if it's still for sale, and whatever extra detail we can dig up — a proper home for houses that deserve to be preserved, not just scrolled past.
And to be clear, we're not here to replace the agents doing the actual selling — we're here to send them the attention their listing's beige stock photos were never going to get on their own.
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We're always hunting for the next one — avocado bathrooms, pebblecrete, carpet that's seen things. Seen one? Tip us off. Want the daily finds? Follow along on Instagram.