Today
Rising listings, poor affordability slash house price growth
The rate fell by a third to 1.9 per cent across the combined capital cities during the September quarter, a new report from Domain shows.
- Nila Sweeney
Yesterday
Stonefields sale sours, prized garden estate set to rejoin market
The sale of landscaper Paul Bangay’s Victorian home has fallen over, with Jamie Durie’s Opulus Hotels electing ‘not to proceed’ with purchase.
- Bonnie Campbell
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- Luxury property
Fashionista sells North Bondi home where demand ‘has never been stronger’
Bec + Bridge’s designer Bec Cooper sells her family home in the famous beachside suburb a week out from its scheduled auction.
- Bonnie Campbell
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- Luxury property
Printing scion trades Bellevue Hill for $12m Vaucluse home
James Hannan, son of printing magnate Michael Hannan, has bought in Vaucluse for $12 million.
- Bonnie Campbell
This Month
Sydney, Brisbane, Perth house prices to rise 12pc this year
The rosier prediction comes as expectations for a wider housing market recovery over the next few years strengthen.
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- Nila Sweeney
This school drop-out became a property magnate. Here’s how he did it
He was told he didn’t have the ‘capability’ to finish school. Now, Nigel Satterley has a $500 million empire that landed him on the Rich List.
- Julie-anne Sprague
‘A market in balance’: clearance rate holds steady 70.8 per cent
Auction clearance rates are lingering around 70 per cent in a sign buyers and sellers are aligning following months of vendor dominance.
- Bonnie Campbell
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- Luxury property
Accenture duo take keys to Mosman’s gothic mansion Allowah
Accenture’s Amit Bansal and Amy Pillay have taken the keys to Mosman’s historic Allowah, while Longueville chalks up yet another trophy sale.
- Bonnie Campbell
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Smorgon family sells $30m Toorak mansion in secret deal
Michael and Hayley Smorgon, members of Melbourne’s billionaire Smorgon dynasty, have sold their family home on St Georges Road in an off-market agreement.
- Bonnie Campbell
Where property demand is set to soar
Australia’s population tipped to boom by more than 7.4 million over the next two decades, sending demand for dwellings soaring.
- Nila Sweeney
The suburbs handing landlords 17pc capital gain and $20k cash flow
Rentals that are earning enough to cover the interest repayments can still be found in more than 80 suburbs nationwide, data from CoreLogic shows.
- Nila Sweeney
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REA Group CEO Owen Wilson sells Toorak mansion listed for $17m
The real estate platform’s chief and wife Liesl paid $7.25 million in 2008. Real estate boss Danny Thomas has paid $13 million for an off-the-plan St Kilda penthouse.
- Bonnie Campbell
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Corporate adviser Jeff Singh to sell $22m Centennial Park mansion
The Centennial Park mansion of Chase Corporate founder Jeff Singh has hit the prestige market with a $20 million to $22 million guide.
- Bonnie Campbell
The tree change suburbs turning into buyers’ markets
Gippsland-South West in Victoria, South Coast and Inverell in NSW, and West Coast in Tasmania are now offering buyers plenty of options, according to Suburbtrends.
- Nila Sweeney
Suburbs with the highest granny flat potential
More than 655,000 granny flats could be built across the country straight away to help alleviate the housing shortage.
- Nila Sweeney
Stockland to charge up to 10pc more for homes this year
In an ‘uncertain’ market, the developer is charging buyers more. The biggest price rises are coming from sales to the growing cohort of downsizers.
- Michael Bleby
Investor exodus gathers pace in Melbourne, Sydney
More investors are bailing out of inner Melbourne and Sydney markets amid weak capital growth and large increase in holding costs.
- Nila Sweeney
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‘Pieces of art’: Power couple to sell historic Brisbane home
Brisbane couple Steve and Jane Wilson have listed their luxury family estate in Highgate Hill ahead of their move into Kangaroo Point’s iconic Lamb House.
- Bonnie Campbell
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‘Best property on the east coast’ smashes sale record
Coastal enclave Lennox Head on NSW’s far north coast has clocked a record sale following the circa $17.5 million sale of a large oceanside property.
- Bonnie Campbell
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Bikini boss and bottle-o heir put Paddington abode on the market
Bikini-influencer-turned-businesswoman Natasha Oakley and her husband, Shore Financial’s Theo Chambers, have listed their Paddington home with an $8 million guide.
- Bonnie Campbell
