ASK NEW ZEALAND NATIVES KOREY CONDON and Penny Busch what they love most about their place in Sydney’s Curl Curl, and they will tell you that there are no other houses between them and the beach, just a road. Avid surfer Korey saw a Gumtree listing – without pictures – for “a house zero skips to the beach” and called up immediately. Not to be deterred by a little thing like the wrong phone number, he persisted and eventually lined up an interview with the owners that night.
Korey was pleasantly surprised (absolutely chuffed, in fact) to discover he recognised the place. “I used to drive past it when I went surfing,” he says. “And every single time I would think,
