The popular Wotton family have walked away with close to $200,000 after being named the winners of Our First Home.
The foursome spent nine weeks turning the tired and dated three bedroom house they purchased in Henderson, Auckland into an impressive family home and were the first to go under the hammer in the TV One reality show on Sunday night.
Originally from Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga, the Wotton’s netted a profit of $99,284 in the auction. Their Henderson home sold for $780,000, and saw them add 14.59 per cent of value to their property.
Each family gets to keep whatever profits they made over the reserve price while the family with the biggest percentage gain walked away with a $100,000 cash prize for their children’s first home.
On Monday night, the Roughan family walked away with $22,432 profit when their four-bedroom Te Atatu South home sold for $800,000 – which added less than three per cent value to the property. The competition came to an end on Tuesday night when the Pearce family’s Henderson home sold for $807,000 – $17,717 over the reserve, and adding just 2.24 per cent value to their home.
The Wottons were the competition’s first mixed team, with daughter Bex Wotton and her dad Henry, teaming up with her boyfriend Josh Tingey and his mum Theresa.
TVNZ Head of Content Jeff Latch is thrilled the family’s commitment to the show has paid off.
“All the families have worked incredibly hard throughout the competition and the renovation of their homes and it’s great to see the Wotton family have reaped the rewards of their efforts.”
The Wotton family are thrilled with the result and optimistic about what this means for the future.
Josh said: “We’re really happy to have been part of this journey and achieved what we set out to do at the start. To have it turn out like it has is a dream come true as it opens so many doors and opportunities for Bex and I in the future. It’s going to be a hard decision as to what we do now.”
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