Courtney and Sev’s victory could be the ultimate vindication for The Block judges, with the couple who won the most room reveals going on to win the series, and the only team to win none finishing last.
The best friends from Brisbane won The Block 2026 when their House 4 sold for $4.72 million at the auction finale – $1.27 million over the reserve price.
They also won six out of the possible 12 room reveals .
“We could have never imagined that we would walk away with that kind of money,” Courtney said after the auction.
Fellow Queenslanders Wyatt and Chantel , however, became the first couple in Block history to finish the series without a single room win.
The House 2 contestants and Gold Coast couple openly dismissed the judges’ feedback during the season, steadfast in their commitment to the white and bright aesthetic.
White and bright was, to be fair, the brief given at the start of the show’s season – but the judges often said it felt “cold” – only for them to finish last at auction.
During the Sunday night’s finale, the couple were asked what they would change if they could talk to their Week 1 selves, and Wyatt laughed: “don’t say you’ll win everything”.
In the days leading up to their auction, their agent confirmed they had not a single registered bidder – but in the end, their house sold for $3.817 million, making them a tidy $367,000 profit. The couple were ecstatic and said they were “so grateful”.
The Block co-creator and executive producer Julian Cress told Domain after the auctions that Courtney and Sev were the show’s “worthy winners”, saying their victory proved the competition’s basic formula still worked.
“[That] gives me the proudest feeling at the end of today. They won six out of 12 rooms – actually they really won seven – and that’s testament to the whole concept of The Block from the get-go,” Cress said.
“You have to present the best rooms. You have to listen to the judges.
“The people who listened to the judges, the people who presented the best rooms, won the show – and made off like bandits.
Chantel said in a post-auction interview that her and Wyatt had feared they would leave with nothing. Tears of joy and relief poured from her eyes when their house sold under the hammer and she told reporters they were grateful.
“Thinking that we’re not going to walk away with any money was really devastating to me,” Chantel said. “And the fact that we’ve walked away with almost $400 grand, I can tell [my son] we can buy a house now, so that’s special.”
Wyatt said: “$367,000 is a lot more than we expected to be walking away with.”
For Cress, the vastly different fortunes of the two couples seemed to vindicate the show’s fundamental premise.
“I think we had the worthy winners,” he said.
Ellen Lutton Ellen Lutton is Head of News and Digital Content at Domain. A multi award-winning journalist with more than 25 years' experience, she has spent the past decade covering Australia's property market.
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