Property news
Interest rates on hold
Andrew Wilson 11:40am As widely anticipated, official interest rates will remain on hold over November.
Apartment of the week: Mosman
ANNA ANDERSON If you're a morning person, this apartment is going to suit you down to the ground.
Pet owners rejoice at new strata by-law
Melbourne: 'Tis the season for a spot of house hunting
Prestige: Ricky Ponting gets almost $4.5 million for house in Burraneer Bay
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Prices
Home truths
MATT WADE As Sydney house prices break records, economists warn that $1 million suburbs are the new normal.
Private Property
Mansion on a par with best
David Adams This 16-hectare property at Flinders, with views to Bass Strait, could fetch as much as $20 million.
Title Deeds
Medich house sells for $11 million
LUCY MACKEN The Point Piper waterfront property has sold for about $11 million.
Open home
What really goes on at inspections
DAISY DUMAS The Sydney open-house inspection has a slyly winking underbelly.
House-sitter
Rent-free mission to afford her own home
Julie Power Nicole Sundin has moved 17 times in the past two years, a hassle that has saved her up to $31,200 in rent.
First home
More first home buyers entering WA property market
The number of first home buyers in Western Australia has soared 31 per cent in the past year, research from Bankwest shows.
Suburbs
Suburb name changes boon for real estate
Leesha McKenny When you’re talking Sydney suburbs, what’s in a name?
Title Deeds
Estate yields to love of the sea
LUCY MACKEN Yoorami, a 2800- square-metre property on Bellevue Hill, is being sold by yachtie Matt Allen, who is moving to the waterfront.
A wait and see approach
11:38am The Reserve Bank leaves rates on hold for the third month in a row.
Editor's Picks
Title Deeds
Bishopscourt no sale
LUCY MACKEN Bishopscourt, the $25 million neo-Gothic mansion in Darling Point, fails to sell.
Comment
Don't buy your child a property
RICHARD GLOVER In giving them property you are also taking something from them.
Development
Designed to cater to growing city
Katherine Townsend Arbour, the latest release in Banbury Village, West Footscray, offers 38 apartments in low-rise buildings in a master-planned development of contemporary design.
QLD
Brisbane's house market bounces back, say reports
MARISSA CALLIGEROS Brisbane house prices are continuing to rise but remain about 8 per cent below their last high
Hot suburbs
Sydney's top spots in 2013
TOBY JOHNSTONE On the biggest auction day in three years Sydney recorded a clearance rate of 81.2 per cent with the city's hottest suburbs delivering a stellar performance.
House of the week: Ascot Vale
Lou Sweeney This handsome 1880s corker comes with a touch of charming quirk.
From the Drawing Board
Little space for improvement
Trisha Croaker A pair of tiny two-storey Victorian terraces in Woollahra offer some interesting tips about maximising profit.
Past and present western culture as different as night and day
HEATH GILMORE The rapid gentrification of an old district is in full swing.
Domain
Major overhaul to strata laws
Flat Chat's Jimmy Thomson discusses the changes with 2UE's Paul Murray. (05:38)
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