Purr-fect: Home sells for extra $100,000 thanks to family cat

Tiffany the cat belonged to the Perceval family in Glen Iris, a suburb of Melbourne. During a recent home auction, Fran and Michael Perceval were happy to see a top bid of nearly $1.8 million U.S. But when broker Glen Coutinho began negotiations with the bidders, they made an unusual request: They offered to raise their bid by nearly $100,000 if they could keep Tiffany. It turns out the buyers’ child had taken a liking to 4-year-old Tiffany during tours of the five-bedroom home. The sellers’ 19-year-old son, who had picked out Tiffany in a pet shop, isn’t taking the news so well. But his mother said, “We’re thinking we’ll put $20,000 in a pile next to the cat and say to Sam, ‘You choose’”.

I said to the agent, ‘She goes with the house, ha-ha. Not expecting at all to actually have a clause written into the contract saying that includes with cat.

Owner Fran Perceval

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