The home at 30/44 Fitzroy Street had a price guide of $1.1 million to $1.2 million. Two bidders took part in the auction: a young man who had returned from overseas and a young married couple looking for their first home. The young couple had hit their ceiling and didn’t want to go any further, so it was sold to the young man,” Perrignon said. “The auction rate has picked up, and the number of buyers getting ready for the upcoming [First Home Guarantee scheme expansion] or trying to get in before … it is definitely having an impact,” he said. In Thornbury, a renovated three-bedroom family home was sold at auction for $1,485,000 to a downsizing couple from Kew.