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Ten homeowners in St Leonards are hoping to be paid about $60 million together for their 6000-square-metre site on Canberra Avenue and Holdsworth Avenue.

Selling entire blocks of houses to developers is the way of the future: agents

Sue Williams 7:49am More homeowners are teaming up to sell to developers, putting those left behind at risk of living in the shade.

Serena and Venus Williams sell loft in New York

Alexandra Spangaro 7:03am It's game, set, match for Serena and Venus Williams in the New York property market, with the pair offloading a Midtown loft.

Tiny treasure: Tiny house in New Farm sells for $960,000

Cost of housing pushing Baby Boomers into homelessness

Local knowledge: Why I love living in Waterloo: Daniel Shipp

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Going behind the camera ... Cate Blanchett.

Title deeds

Cate Blanchett and husband Andrew Upton selling Hunters Hill home for $20 million

LUCY MACKEN The Hollywood A-lister and her husband are selling their prized waterfront home in readiness for the family's move to the United States.

Rupert Murdoch is selling his New York townhouse just five months after buying it.

Rupert Murdoch lists New York townhouse

Madeleine Wedesweiler Rupert Murdoch has listed a townhouse in New York for $US29 million ($39.7 million), just five months after buying it.

Change.org campaign targets forced sales of strata blocks

JIMMY THOMSON An online petition opposes strata law changes in NSW that would require only 75 percent of owners to agree to sell a unit block to developers, instead of the current 100 per cent.

Offshore developers are responsible for 52 per cent of the upcoming supply of developments in Melbourne's city centre.

Apartment numbers

Local players still dominate Melbourne apartment supply

Nick Lenaghan Melbourne is punching well above its weight nationally, accounting for 47 per cent of core capital city apartment supply around Australia between 2010 and 2014.

Is Taylor Swift buying this $9.8m castle in Scotland?

Sophie Jamieson Singer Taylor Swift is rumoured to be purchasing an eight bedroom castle in Perthshire, Scotland, to be near her beau Calvin Harris.

The ground-level private dog park in Doncaster will be the first of its kind in Australia.

New development

Developer building Australia's first high-rise dog park

JENNIFER DUKE Australia will soon see its first dog park in a high-rise apartment building, and the idea is not as barking mad as some might think.

Is it OK to buy replica furniture?

Elicia Murray Replicas. Copies. Inspired by original designs. David Trubridge prefers the word "stolen".

Silvio Berlusconi has reportedly given Saudi Arabia's heir to the throne a tour of his Sardinian villa.

Prime real estate

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi 'selling villa to Saudi royalty' for $740 million

RACHEL CLUN The billionaire is reportedly in talks with a Saudi prince to sell his Sardinian villa, complete with fake volcano.

If you want to hook up, then move into either West Footscray or Flemington, according to demographer Bernard Salt of KPMG.

Singles hotspots

Looking for love in Melbourne? Buy a house in these suburbs...

EMILY POWER Choosing where to buy in often hinges on several factors, but what about love? These are the hot spot postcodes for singles.

Unique New Zealand house shows there's no place like dome

Erica Donald Nestled alongside the water's edge in Auckland sits the rather distinctive dome home.

What the tech? Eight useful apps to help you spring clean your home

Pauline Morrissey (And generally get your life in order. Hurrah!)

This home renovation features a staircase just for your dogs (or cats).

Pet-friendly house

Living with pets: renovated house features a staircase for dogs

CHRISTINA ZHOU A dog-loving couple has taken living with pets to an entire new level.

Hamish Blake is selling his renovated house at 60 Gore Street, Fitzroy.

Hamish and Andy

Radio host Hamish Blake is selling his Fitzroy terrace

Alexandra Spangaro Comedian's stylish Fitzroy terrace is on the market.

The property at 40 Wentworth Road, Vaucluse, sold this month for $70 million.

James Packer tops Australia's 10 most expensive home sales

Lucy Macken, Christina Zhou The $70 million sale of James and Erica Packer's Vaucluse mega-mansion has left all previous national house sales in the shade.

Wealthy Australians are most at risk from a downturn in property prices.

Winners and losers

Who has the most to lose if interest rates rise and property prices collapse?

Sally Patten Analysis by actuarial firm Rice Warner suggests that the wealthiest Australians will suffer most if property prices tumble.

Flat Chat: What to do about 'do-nothing' strata committees

JIMMY THOMSON Although we often moan about strata committees interfering in our lives, just as bad, if not worse, are those who prefer to do nothing.

This four-bedroom apartment at 801/20 Alfred Street, Milsons Point, sold for $7,500,000.

The rich list

Seven more Sydney suburbs on millionaire's row for apartments

ANTONY LAWES Sydney's runaway house-price growth is flowing through to apartments.

Artists bring colour into a community by painting all 209 houses in the neighbourhood

Pauline Morrissey Taking two and a half months to complete, the mural covers some 20,000 square meters and the artists used around 20,000 litres of paint to create the impressive work they later titled 'El Macro Mural Barrio de Palmitas'.