VFL legends DiPierdomenico and Burns selling Melbourne homes

The childhood home of Dipper goes to auction in Hawthorn goes under the hammer at 10am today.

Melbourne is set to end its spring auction market with a bang as almost 1600 homes test the market, including a pair of properties linked to VFL premiership stars.

At 10am the home Robert Dipper DiPierdomenico grew up in after his family migrated to Australia is going under the hammer with expectations it could sell for $3.1m-$3.4m.

With five VFL premierships and a Brownlow Medal to his name, Dipper is one of the code’s most successful athletes and took to social media recently to reveal the 71 Mason St home is where he and his brother got their first kicks of the football, and first bowl of a cricket ball.

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Kay & Burton’s Scott Patterson is handling the sale and said with Dipper’s brother Dino buying the home about 40 years ago, it had been in the DiPierdomenico family for more than 60 years.

“And Dipper grew up there, went to the local primary school and he kicked the footy in the park opposite and became a Brownlow Medallist,” Mr Patterson said.

The open-plan living room at the rear of the house is a bit different to when the DiPierdomenico brothers were growing up in it.

The house has a garden filled with greenery.

Robert Dipper DiPierdomenico is one of the most successful footballers to play AFL or VFL.

An hour later North Melbourne premiership hero John Burns will put him and wife Beverly’s home of the past 20 years under the hammer in Pascoe Vale South.

booted four goals to help the Roos to their 1975 Premiership flag.

After listing the 24 Lochinvar St home for sale, he said it had a bit of “magic from the moment we saw it”.

It’s expected to sell for $1.65m-$1.8m via Jellis Craig’s Adrien Petrucelli.

PropTrack data shows Melbourne is expected to host 1594 auctions this week as the spring selling season comes to an end.

The clearance rate for the state has remained well above 60 per cent across the past three months, an improvement from last year.

North Melbourne VFL premiership player John Burns is selling his Pascoe Vale South home. Picture: North Melbourne Football Club.

The house at 24 Lochinvar St has been owned by the player for decades.

Inside, the house has a light and bright ambiance.

But it has waned as auction numbers have surged past 1500 for multiple weeks in November with a 65 per cent clearance rate notched last weekend.

Almost 70 per cent of homes were sold at auctions during September and October.

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