article_snippet.sent: The tropical Queenslander home still managed to sell for over three times what Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein paid when Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein bought the house just over two decades ago, when Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein snagged the Norman Park property for $384,000 in December 1994.
article_snippet.sent: the house has a history of encouraging bargains, as the Rudd's paid $116,000 less than Irene and Nicholas Kassos who paid $500,000 just five months before the Rudd's did in 1994, reported news.com.au.
article_snippet.sent: In November last year The Rudd family sold a nearby site, also in Norman Park, where The Rudd family had once planned to build The Rudd family dream home.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Rudd family put The Rudd family home on the market in November and The Rudd family sold for $1.14 million .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein were originally hoping for $1.25 million but lowered the asking price to $1.19 million .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein bought the Norman Park property in Brisbane's east in 1994 for just $384,000 .
  