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Properties like Karen Mansbridge’s usually sell within 30 days, but her home has been on the market for eight months. The two-hectare hobby farm in the South Burnett region, 160km north-west of Brisbane, was receiving so few inquiries the real estate agent decided to remove the address from the listing.
Interest picked up – until buyers were reluctantly given the address. “They’d fly over it on Google Maps and go, ‘nup’,” her real estate agent says.
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