The parents of Cleo Smith – the young girl who was kidnapped four and a half year ago – have closed the door on a difficult chapter in their lives by selling their home.

Ellie Smith and Jake Gliddon have sold the three-bedroom, one-bathroom fibro home in South Carnarvon where they lived when Cleo was kidnapped from the Blowholes campsite at Point Quobba.

It was the house where they no doubt paced the floorboards over 18 days as police searched hundreds of kilometres along the Gascoyne coast, eventually finding the then-four year old at a local home.

Terence Darrell Kelly later pleaded guilty to kidnapping and keeping her at his his home only four kilometres from the family.

The family’s house sold for $320,000 last month – which was more than double what the $120,000 they paid for it in April 2021.

Images of the home show a pink walled room, believed to have been Cleo’s, where she would have resumed her regular life after being rescued by police.

The family have not lived in the property for nearly two years, instead using it as an investment property as rents in South Carnarvon skyrocketed to a median $1500 a week, more than three times the 2020 rental median of $475 a week.

The family now live in a bigger five-bedroom house which they bought near Carnarvon nearly two years ago for under $400,000.

Their new home barely left them out of pocket, after their original house more than doubled in price in the five years they owned it.

It appears the parents have not used the $2 million money they got from another media organisation for an interview to pay for new property, prompting speculation the money has been set aside for their children’s future.

The sale highlights a pocket of WA with affordable housing, despite significant price hikes over recent years. Houses in the Gascoyne region are up 66 per cent $285,000 in 2020 to $475,000 median now.

Their recently sold South Carnarvon home was advertised as having an asbestos roof and on steel posts, three double sized bedrooms with polished floorboards.

It included a new split system air conditioner to main bedroom and to the loungeroom and laminate floor planking across communal areas of the house.

The big 729sqm block is located close to Carnarvon boat harbour.

Cleo’s family have remained largely quiet in the wake of her ordeal, though released photo of her parents wedding in 2023. In 2024, Ms Smith release photos of Cleo celebrating her seventh birthday and later winning a gold medal in her first gymnastics competition.

The couple were contacted for commment.