Well, there's still money around: the house up the lane sold for $970,000! People from Canberra bought it as their weekender!
That's almost a million dollars for a property of 1,500m² - or is it 1,800m²? - which makes Riverbend's seven-plus acres (approx. 30,000m²) look very cheap even at twice the price.
The selling agents were First National Real Estate in the Bay. Maybe I should talk to them?