A hush-hush moment before The Block’s dramatic 2025 auction night may have sealed the fate of this season’s struggling contestants — long before a single hammer fell.

One of the auctioneers who called bids on The Block auctions last week has revealed a key off screen event had indicated the sales would be a bust long before they started.

This year’s results were markedly different from previous seasons in that two of the five contestants failed to sell at auction .

And even the winners, WA cops Brit and Taz, walked away with a profit smaller than the 2024 season’s last placed contestants.

Auctioneer Tom Panos, who called bids on the house of second-placed contestants Robby and Matt, said registered bidders at the auctions had expressed budgets of $2.7m to $2.8m prior to bidding.

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