A beachside house in Mona Vale sold for $4.5 million at auction over the weekend, according to SMH Property, with the vendor adjusting their $4.85 million reserve down by $350,000 to secure a buyer whose parents once rented the home when he was a child. That weekend, Sydney's preliminary auction clearance rate sat at 52 per cent, a slight improvement on the previous week's 46 per cent, according to Domain figures cited in the report. Clearance rates and days-on-market figures are known to vary widely between Australian suburbs, with inner-metro and blue-chip markets generally transacting faster than slower-moving regional and outer-metro markets, though suburb-by-suburb figures require verification against primary data sources before being reported as fact.
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