The Escape
Toby Johnstone Down south (and I mean way down) there are still historic gems at pre-Federation prices.
House prices
House hunters find nearest are not necessarily dearest
Toby Johnstone The age-old mantra of buying the worst house on the best street just went macro. Smart buyers are targeting the cheapest suburbs in Sydney's top regions.
Smart buys Sydney
Toby Johnstone Domain looks at what's on offer in Sydney this week.
Property
Australia's housing market has 'fully recovered'
Toby Johnstone Experts say Australia's property market has fully recovered with strong price growth over the June quarter.
House prices
Sydney house prices reach all time high
Toby Johnstone Australia's most expensive city just got more expensive with the median house price fast approaching $700,000.
Smart buys: Mount Street Coogee
Toby Johnstone If you want to be sitting pretty come summer, it may be wise to buy near the beach now.
Bargain
Liberace mansion on market for a song
Toby Johnstone It is a clear sign that good taste has changed as dramatically as the US property market - Liberace's old Las Vegas home is for sale for just $US523,000 ($569,000).
Prestige
Inside the '$US190 million fixer-upper'
Toby Johnstone What does the most expensive home in the US look like inside?
Tropical island
007's hideaway up for grabs
Toby Johnstone The island James Bond made famous could be yours for $17.4 million.
Property market
Young couples pack up for winter, to await the fall
Toby Johnstone After four months of attending auctions and losing out on properties that were sold well above the advertised price - sometimes for hundreds of thousands of dollars more, Clementine Young and her...
Rates
Agents tip rate cut next month
Toby Johnstone It's not a matter of 'if' but 'when' rates come down, experts say.
Recovery
Top-end properties drive market higher
Stephen Nicholls, Toby Johnstone Sydney's property market bounced back strongly last month, with data from a leading property analyst showing 2.7 per cent growth over the previous month.
Prestige
Prestige market bounces back
Toby Johnstone Sydney's previously sluggish prestige property market has emerged as the top performing sector in 2013.
First home
Buyers jump at bigger grant
Toby Johnstone The doubling of the first home owner grant to $15,000 for new homes has been met with a 72 per cent jump in first-timers buying property.
The Escape
Toby Johnstone This one-room cottage on the edge of the world is in fact perched on a craggy coastline just south of Sydney.
Prestige
Big foreign buyers in red tape tangle
Toby Johnstone Prestige agents are angry they can't get big sales across the line because their cashed-up foreign buyers are entangled in government bureaucracy.
On the move
Tree change fails to fully blossom
Toby Johnstone The number of Sydneysiders moving to the country has increased sharply as families turn their back on the nation's most expensive city for housing.
