Channel 9 newsreader Alicia Loxley secured a $1.2 million sale of her former Abbotsford home. It was on the market at $1.1 million with competition between two first-home buyers.
It was bought with her husband Kane in 2009 for $604,500 after she returned from several years working in Perth.
The brick Victorian in Vere Street had price guidance between $1 million and $1.1 million.
With two sons, the couple have moved into a bigger house. It had been offered as a $600 a week rental.