Radio host Abby Coleman sells beloved family home for $2.4 million

Brisbane radio host Abby Coleman has sold her much-loved family home for more than four times what she paid for the property a decade ago. After agonising over whether to sell or hold on to the Carina Heights home amid changing conditions in Brisbane’s housing market, Coleman and her husband, Scott Burdon, took the plunge — and it paid off, with the couple securing $2.43m for the property. Brisbane breakfast radio host Abby Coleman and her family at the home they just sold in Carina Heights. The basketball court in the backyard of the house in Carina Heights was a hit with interested buyers. The couple bought the original home on the 600sq m block for $600,000 in 2016 before completely rebuilding it to create a spacious two-level, five-bedroom family home. Selling agent Mikaela Crone, of Place Bulimba, said the property attracted strong interest from the moment it hit the market, with more than 50 groups inspecting it during the campaign. The home was under offer after 14 days, with the contract becoming unconditional seven days later. This house in Carina Heights just sold for $2.43m. “It was super popular,” Ms Crone said. “We had mostly large families looking for more space and t...