The Canberra home auction market reported a solid result at the weekend from relatively low numbers of listings as the local market gears up for its biggest ever test next Saturday.
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What should come first? The house or the kids?
Traditionally the expectation when we have children is that we’ll pick up and move to a quarter acre block in the ‘burbs.