The Block’s winning auctioneer and a top Victorian real estate expert have revealed the show’s auction wipe out was a “phenomenal result” that could easily have been worse.

With a litany of mistakes kicking off when the site was bought a year before contestants started work, it was lucky to get three homes sold.

PropTrack data has raised questions over why the auction-centric show targeted a town where there had been just three other homes auctioned this year, and a total of four in the past 22 months.

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