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West Australian police officers Britt and Taz Etto have won reality renovation show The Block, and take home $520,000 on a mixed auction day in Daylesford, where two homes failed to sell at auction. Two other homes fetched an auction premium of less than $150,000 each, a more muted result than the lucrative prizes of recent years, when billionaire Adrian Portelli often bid large sums. The Block airs on Nine, owner of this masthead. The five new homes for sale were listed with price guides of $3 million to $3.3 million, and four of the five had reserve prices of $2.99 million, which was a point of contention among the show’s contestants, who create a home, take it to auction and pocket any money it sells for above the reserve. Many wished for lower reserves to sell their homes in the regional town about 110 kilometres from Melbourne, where the median house price is $820,000 on Domain data.
