Imagine our dismay when, on the very morning of our first open home, The Canberra Times front page headline screamed 'Leafy Suburbs Pruned’. After our Forrest house sold at auction three weeks later, the headline on All Homes could not have been more different, ‘Canberra Auctions that Defied the Downward Trend’, with ours as the first image. The single point of difference between our home and others for sale in this area of Canberra was Mario Sanfrancesco and his team at Peter Blackshaw Manuka. Mario’s contacts with potential buyers were prodigious, his advice encouraging - and spot on - and his efforts indefatigable throughout the pre-sale preparation of the house and his marketing. Team Sanfrancesco pulled off a remarkable result. We are grateful for everything they did and would recommend Mario unreservedly to anyone wanting to sell their home in the inner south, whatever the state of the market.

Mario Sanfrancesco


