The Olympic champion Ian Thorpe and his partner, Ryan Channing were among the throng last Saturday morning when a 1860s Paddington terrace was open for inspection.
There's a $2.5 million price guide on the three-bedroom, two-bathroom Gipps Street terrace which has been listed by the futures trader Richard Harvey and his wife, Theresa.
The Gipps Street property, listed through Ray White agent Dean Jarman, last traded at $1,235,000 in 2011.
The terrace featured in a book, Paddington Stories, authored by local historians Andrew Starr and Janice Morice, as at one time it was a sly grog den.
It would be the first property acquisition as a couple should it be knocked down to them at its December 9 auction.
This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph.