坐拥金矿：悉尼Concord West一栋老宅买入900英镑近日拍卖近130万售出

THEY ARE Sydney's surprise millionaires: homeowners who have spent decades in their family house, unaware they are sitting on a goldmine. This time last year they may have been worth far less, but the Sydney market has begun to boom and $1 million or more for a home in an average suburb is now the new normal.

The conditions are perfect for sellers. Buyers are everywhere, thanks to record low interest rates and a severe shortage of listings, pushing price tags beyond what sellers would ever have imagined.

Marian Farmer, 85, was moving in with her daughter and needed to sell her 17 Consett Street Concord West home, which had been in the family for 73 years. It was purchased in 1940 by her late husband's parents for the grand sum of 900 pounds - the average wage of a factory worker at the time was 250 pounds - and the bungalow style home was virtually in original condition.

73年前，以900英镑买入，当时的普通工厂工人年薪在250英镑；

如今$1,291,000澳元售出，目前澳洲人平均工资大约在6万澳元。