Out Of The Ordinary Homes: Australia's Weirdest Real Estate
This is where the houses that don't fit anywhere else end up. A Wild West town behind a normal country house. A pyramid in the WA wheatbelt. A castle with a lap pool in the middle. A cave in a Warners Bay backyard. When the agent writes “unique opportunity” and it turns out to be an understatement, it goes here. If you need proof that Australian real estate is far weirder than the display homes suggest, this is it.
For SaleHow Long Can One House Be, Keiraville?
The pool room is so big it needs a sign to the toilets.
For SaleNo Corners to Hide In: The Minchinbury Round House
The agent wrote 700 words about this house. Not one of them was "round".
For saleMount Macedon's Castle-Adjacent Party House
Not a castle. Castle adjacent. The stairs on the outside go to the roof.
For SaleWarners Bay Has a Cave and Nobody Will Say Why
IT'S GOT A CAVE.
For saleChurch? TAFE? Cult HQ? Shepparton Weighs In
Church, TAFE or cult HQ? Shepparton is still deciding.
SoldHolland House: Middle Cove's Glass Menagerie
Some houses have a feature wall. This one skipped walls altogether.
For SaleThree Flights Up And Zero Regrets: Collingwood's Cardio Loft
Photographs like a Berlin gallery. Lives like a fire drill. No lift.
SoldHonestly, Who Hurt You?: Bruce Rock's Pyramid House
Someone built a pyramid in the wheatbelt. Then they built it a garage.
Not currently for saleFlintstones Meets The Jetsons: Newport's Clay House
A grade 2 student drew their dream house. Somebody built it.
Not currently for saleYes, Another Indoor Pool: Welcome To St Ives
The second house we've found with a lap pool in the lounge. We're worried.
Not for saleThe 24,000-Square-Foot House With Its Own Old West Town Inside It
It has a Western town built inside it. The rest is a formality.
Not for saleThe House That Bloomed Too Much
Normal brick house outside. Every doily in New South Wales inside.
For SaleThe Trouse Of Sarsfield
A retired Frankston line train, now living its best life in the bush.
For SaleThe Theatre Royal, Lithgow
It's been a cinema, a boxing ring and a nightclub. Now it's a listing.
For SaleFort Knox, But Damp
A double-brick castle with a lap pool where the middle should be.
Not currently for saleMoon Base Karalee
You enter through a tunnel. It gets less normal from there.
For saleThe Long Way Home: Elevated Plains
110 metres long, and the indoor garden needs watering daily. Like it or not.
SoldThe Toilet's Right There: Glebe
Award-winning architecture. No door on the ensuite. None.
For SaleThe Chouse Of Greendale
An 1849 church with a pipe organ in the living room.
SoldAre These Homeowners Doomsday Preppers?
Floodlights, cameras, a battery bank and backup houses. Expecting something?
Not for saleJesus Take The Wheel: Oran Park
There's a life-size Jesus in the main bedroom. Every dinner is a Last Supper.
Not for saleThe Cannon-Ball Estate
An indoor rock pool with a waterfall. And wagon wheel furniture.
SoldSave Moonya: Burwood's Stained-Glass Time Capsule
A developer wants to knock her down for something beige. We riot at dawn.
Not currently for saleGidget Goes to Palm Springs
Two bars, a yellow water slide and brolgas on the kitchen walls.
For SaleValley Of The Dolls
Two rooms of dolls, floor to ceiling. So many eyes.
For SaleLion Around: Geelong's Lion-Statue Mansion
Fourteen lions. We counted. Then we found the cellar window into the pool.
SoldThe 3.4 Metre Wonder
3.4 metres wide. The bath is in the side passage.
Not currently for saleKnights of the Yellow Kitchen Table
A Crusader meeting room with a round table. Then there's the theatre.
Not currently for salePretty in Pink: Nambucca Heads' Daggiest Beach Pad
Three bedrooms, three colour philosophies, none of them white.
Not currently for saleThe Earth Castle
It has working drawbridges. That's not even the weirdest part.
For SaleThis House Comes With A Bonus Western Town
Normal house out front. A whole Wild West town out back, brothel included.
SoldThe Sandcastle House
She wanted a castle. The builders, the council and her architect dad all lost.
SoldIvy League: Darling Point
Sold for $21 million. Still has a rooster portrait in the dining room.
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