Buying the family home - again

Mark and Lyn Sultana and Ricki Irons at the old family home in Pasadena yesterday. Picture: Tait Schmaal Source: adelaidenow

ONE of Ray Irons' dying wishes was for his family to buy the beloved Pasadena home he built in the 1970s.

That wish came true at the weekend when his grandson Ricki Irons, daughter Lyn Sultana and her husband Mark bought the Barcroft St home - putting it back in the hands of the family.

Mr Irons, a former Operation Flinders ambassador who died last week, aged 90, sold the home in 1989.

While in SA for his funeral, relatives visited the old family home at Pasadena to reminisce and discovered the home was to be auctioned that weekend.

"It was quite bizarre that we'd buried my father on Friday; we were all there for that weekend and it just happened to be that that was the weekend of the auction and yet it had been on the market for some time," said Ms Sultana, 51, of Melbourne.

"We bought it from the same people we'd sold it to and it hasn't even been sold in between, and let me tell you, everything is exactly the same.

"Not even the towel rails have fallen off the wall and the pool's been empty for 20 years and there's not even a tile off the wall.

"My father was an engineer so this house was built to last forever - there's not a crack in the wall and nothing has been replaced."

Mr Irons had the home custom-built in the 1970s for $21,000. He dug the pool himself - 2.6m deep because he was a keen diver. The home sold under the hammer for $580,000.

"In the end we did stretch it but it's something Dad would have liked to have done," Ms Sultana said.

"Mark had Dad's photo in his back pocket ... we were guided by him."

Ray White Colonel Light Gardens real estate agent Matt Giblin, who sold the home, said it was great to see the home back in the hands of the Irons family. "The timing was perfect and it was all meant to be," he said.

"It was a surprise that they appeared at the auction because they hadn't been involved throughout the campaign.

"I'm so happy for them and they seem excited, and the vendor is really happy as well, so it's a great result."

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