Unity Jackson-Muir, Real estate reporter
First published 13 Nov 2026, 6:00am
A house alleged to have been trashed by squatters has come onto the market near the NSW-Vic border, with the selling agent posting a tongue-in-cheek video tour on social media showing the extent of the damage.
Listing pictures of the Albury property show graffiti covered walls, boarded up windows, water damage and rubbish scattered through the home.
The accompanying video, posted by real estate agency Ray White Albury Central, shows agent Rahul Goyal jump the fence of the Swan St home to get the front door keys.
Mr Goyal said that the video has “racked up about 117,000 views (on Instagram) so it makes it all worthwhile”.
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The front door opens into the study room where graffiti covers one wall and litter covers the floor.
The front door goes into a small “study room” where flyscreens have been ripped off the windows. A yellow sharps disposal bin sits on a small shelf and wall insulation litters the floor.
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The study opens into the master bedroom.
The walls are painted a patchwork of green, beige and white. Some of the walls are graffitied from ceiling-to-floor and red paint is splattered on the roof.
Mr Goyal jokes in the listing video that the aircon unit hanging from the wall is simply a “split system”.
The room leads into the master bedroom where the window is partly boarded up and a dirty aircon unit precariously hangs off the wall, which Mr Goyal jokingly describes as a “split system”.
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The living room is marred by more graffiti.
The red graffiti continues into the living room where either black paint or mould spreads across the roof and a wood panel sits on the floor.
Black marks are visible on the roof in the top left corner.
There’s a pile of rubbish in the corner and the hardwood floors are stained with paint and dirt.
Sheets of fabric cover the windows in the kitchen and every surface is stained with either dirt, paint or water marks.
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Every surface in the kitchen is stained and sheets cover the window.
Some of the cupboard doors are missing and reveal abandoned crockery as well as circular brown stains.
The phrase “LOOK MUM NO HAM” is painted in bright red on some remaining cupboard doors and is one of the few PG-rated pieces of graffiti in the home.
The bathroom window is smashed and planks of wood used to board up the opening have come loose.
The bathroom has missing tiles, smashed windows, abandoned toiletries and stains throughout but is untouched by graffiti.
The door to the laundry is boarded shut with two slats of timber and most of the wall tiles are missing to reveal the brown-tinged glue that would have held them in place.
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Part of the laundry door has been sliced into.
The floors are stained with grime and a corner of the room is decorated by splatters of dark red paint.
The two other bedrooms are in similar condition but have paintings, scribbles and drawings directly on the walls that look like they might have been done by kids.
Rubbish covers the floor and kids drawings are painted directly on the walls.
Clothes, paper and a lone wine bottle are among some of the rubbish in one of the rooms and a large panel of wood covers most of the window in the other.
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Window fly screens are neatly stacked in the corner of the bedroom.
Michelle Crowe, the business manager for Ray White Albury Central, said the idea for the listing video came about when she visited another trashed home with Mr Goyal.
Ms Crowe said he didn’t have the keys and clambered into the home through the large doggie door, which became the intro for the video.
“We were trying to think of how to market the home and decided we wanted to have some fun with it,” Ms Crowe said.
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The driveway to the garage where Mr Goyal jumped the fence in the listing video.
“I think the video brought a little bit of light to the industry with where the market is at the moment,” she said.
The pair said the property used to be a rental and claimed that a tenant had trashed the home before squatters moved in.
“There used to be squatters in there who put their own little touches on it and I don’t know how (the owner) got them out to be honest,” Ms Crowe said.
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Mr Goyal said a full renovation would cost around $150,000 and most of the interested buyers have been property flippers.
The 639 sqm allotment is listed for $389,000 and Albury’s median house price sits around $824,000.
Ms Crowe finished the social media video by saying: “all jokes aside, this is a phenomenal opportunity for a real fixer upper at a sharp price”.
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