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Attendees at a house auction were left stunned after a woman walked in minutes before the bidding closed and bought the house, having never seen it before.
The property at 448 Cambridge St in the inner western Perth suburb of Floreat went under the hammer earlier this month, eventually selling for $1.7million.
The woman, the wife of a pilot who was away working in Alaska, walked into the backyard as the bidding was 'starting to simmer down' and declared 'I liked this house'.
'She came in right at the last minute when I was getting my second-final bid. She just turned up,' selling agent Vivien Yap from Ray White told the Australian Financial Review.
Ms Yap said the crowd gathered for the auction were