Today
Stockbroker lists Sydney house for $20m in market rush
Rob Fiani is listing his grand Bellevue Hill mansion this week as he hopes to avoid next year's mystery conditions in a move to the Vaucluse waterfront.
- Lucy Macken
October
- Analysis
- Property investment
Is the RBA inflating a property price bubble?
A growing gap between residential property prices and rents could mean the RBA's unprecedented rate cuts and expected quantitative easing are laying the groundwork for the next property bubble.
- Matthew Cranston
Valuer Acumentis predicts rise in distressed sales
The company says receiver and mortgagee-in-possession sales will increase as pandemic measures supporting home loan repayments are wound back.
- Michael Bleby
Sydney home of international fugitive hits market for $9m
Michael Menghong Gu fled his Mosman residence just weeks after his property empire, iProsperity, collapsed with debts mounting to as much as $350 million.
- Lucy Macken
Car-dealing family’s Sydney home sets $16m suburb record
The Belvedere mansion owned by Maryanne Pagent is set on one of the largest waterfront reserve parcels on Cremorne Point.
- Lucy Macken
Pokie billionaire's $20m spread could break records
Gretel Ainsworth is selling her family's Southern Highlands trophy home, Braesyde, with the kind of inclusions you’d expect of a weekender for the uber-rich.
- Lucy Macken
Anthony Deague buys James Calvert-Jones' Toorak home for $15m
Life has returned to Melbourne's top end properties faster than it has the mainstream market.
- Michael Bleby
Post-COVID 'ding-donger' pushes Sydney home $10,000 over asking price
A Haberfield house that failed to sell early in the pandemic sold above the price guide as buyers came back strongly in spring.
- Michael Bleby
Inside Mike Cannon-Brookes' $240m+ property portfolio
The co-founder of software giant Atlassian has amassed probably the country’s largest collection of private homes, weekenders and farms for his personal use.
- Lucy Macken
Regional hotspots where house prices have surged
While Australia's two largest housing markets have suffered over the course of the pandemic, many of the country's regional towns have been going from strength to strength.
- Ingrid Fuary-Wagner
Strong auction clearances point to rising prices in Sydney
Sydney records an 80.4 per cent clearance rate on preliminary figures and the Melbourne market has also stepped up.
- Nick Lenaghan
Billionaire drops $89.5m on a 12-bedroom house
Riley Bechtel has bought into a sleepy but searingly expensive Californian neighbourhood that has closed an unprecedented number of eight-figure property sales.
- Ellen Lutton
Victory Offices slumps as lockdown hits co-working
ASX-listed flexible office provider Victory Offices has been hit hard by the pandemic with shares slumping to a low of 19 cents.
- Ingrid Fuary-Wagner
Inner-city vacancies rise as renters hit the 'burbs and beyond
The rush to escape expensive inner-city properties in favour of the suburbs and regions has led to a rise in rental vacancies closer to CBDs.
- Miranda Ward
Stockbroker lists Sydney trophy home for $45m
Blue Ocean Equities executive chairman Brent Potts' Villa Florida in Rose Bay is the most expensive residence to be put to the market this year.
- Lucy Macken
Buyers return to the housing market
The number of residential listings is falling as sales volumes outpace the amount of new properties being added to the market nationally.
- Miranda Ward
British billionaire James Dyson sells Singapore's priciest penthouse
Perched atop the city-state's tallest building, the five-bedroom 'super penthouse' has a 600-bottle wine cellar, but the vacuum tycoon is selling it at a loss.
- Aradhana Aravindan and John Geddie
Comyn grows more bullish on housing and jobs
CBA has a more rosy view on the performance of residential housing than it did just a month ago, as the government's dumping of responsible lending laws helps borrowers get mortgages faster.
- Updated
- James Eyers
Tesla's chairwoman buys Sydney knock-down for $6m
The Whale Beach two-bedder is humble for Robyn Denholm, but it comes with a hard fought for development approval to demolish it and rebuild.
- Lucy Macken
RBA 'green-lights' risk-taking in property investment
Locking in record-low rates for 'at least' three years has triggered a home loan war and could start a property bubble, but the Reserve Bank is not too worried.
- Matthew Cranston
