Property news
Bishopscourt no sale
LUCY MACKEN 7:37pm Bishopscourt, the $25 million neo-Gothic mansion in Darling Point, fails to sell.
If only these walls could talk
ANTONY LAWES When it comes to prominent residents, it is hard to beat the art deco apartment complex Manar in Potts Point, which has been home to prime ministers (''Black Jack'' McEwen), opera divas (Nellie Melba) and writers (Murray Bail).
Banking: Fixed home loan rates on the rise
House of the week: Richmond
Investors: Rental yields show slight fall as investors slug it out
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Median
Sydney beats $700,000 barrier
TOBY JOHNSTONE Sydney house prices have smashed through the $700,000 barrier for the first time, taking the market into ‘‘uncharted territory’’.
Saturday Auctions
Buyers lose shyness in market
Chris Tolhurst Saturday was the biggest residential auction day ever.
Title Deeds
Nothing like a dame's old digs
LUCY MACKEN The Astor apartment that Barry Humphries famously illegally renovated is one of this week's most interesting listings.
Over the moon
Jenny Brown The Cowshed House in Glebe is being celebrated for being so limited, restrained, and rustically simple.
Ivanhoe
Three of the best: Ivanhoe
Katherine Townsend and Susie Peace What if you want to live in the country but near the city, preferably with babbling brook and parkland nearby?
Three of the best: Beecroft
Kate Farrelly It's been something of a sleeper suburb but it looks as if Beecroft is now claiming a piece of the action.
Rentals
The inner-city homes no one wants
ANTONY LAWES Terraces are hard to rent as tenants prefer apartments, say agents.
Tiny laneway kiosk sells for $380,000
4:46pm Each square metre of a tiny Melbourne cafe cost one bidder around $126,000 as the Causeway property went under the hammer.
Editor's Picks
Community
The pulse in the city heart
Susan Wellings It takes more than buildings to add the beat to downtown areas. It's people, what they do and how they interact that gives life to the developer's vision.
Saddling up for a new bonanza
Susan Wellings The appetite for new property has created the prospect of a range of homes.
Renovation
Raw talent
Jenny Brown Cost conscious and site-conservative residential additions need not be boring, as these two award-winning projects so admirably demonstrate.
The Escape
TOBY JOHNSTONE Traditional housing be damned, this is your chance to escape from the suburbs and slot into cool warehouse digs.
House of the week: Darlinghurst
LUCY MACKEN Breathless excitement isn't everyone's usual response to real estate, but then they probably haven't had a browse through this Victorian-era mansion.
House of the week: Richmond
Lou Sweeney Richmond is many things to many people, but one of Struggletown's greatest assets has to be its back streets.
Mountains miss out on sales boom
TOBY JOHNSTONE Who says there's not a boom? Saturday was one of the the biggest auction days ever in Sydney and Melbourne.
Title Deeds
If only these walls could talk
ANTONY LAWES When it comes to prominent residents, it is hard to beat the art deco apartment complex Manar in Potts Point.
Domain
Kerchink! Kerchink! Kerchink!
That’s the sound of cash dropping into vendor’s bank accounts after a record auction weekend. (03:25)
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