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Screenshot of image from the report on The Advertiser/AdelaideNow
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CATH NEWS REPORT: Two properties where St Mary MacKillop once lived - one at Yankalilla and one at Peterborough in South Australia - and advertised for sale before her canonisation in mid-October are yet to sell, said a report in The Advertiser.
LJ Hooker Normanville's Melissa Rankine, who is selling the Yankalilla property where St Mary lived, said she was hopeful of securing a sale now that a tenant had moved out.Another property at Yankalilla, where St Mary's Sisters of St Joseph opened their first school in 1867, was passed in at auction last Saturday.
"We are still getting a bit of interest but now that it's empty we'll push it a bit more," she said.
The Sisters of St Joseph's Convent rented the two-bedroom Main St cottage in the late 1860s after establishing their first convent and school a few houses up the road.
Trustee of the Peterborough property Paul Teague said the house was still being renovated and would be seriously marketed in about two months, despite a call for expressions of interest in an ad placed in The Advertiser on October 15.
"There has been a lot of interest but we've pushed back a lot of it until we've finished renovating . . . we are not too far away," Mr Teague said.
Toop & Toop's Peter Stock, who is managing the sale of the former school, said it was a surprising the property failed to sell at auction.
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