Property
What are the top ways to future-proof your home and increase its value?
Some homes being built now are already out of date, but by adding a few features to an existing or new home, owners can reap the benefits.
- by Tawar Razaghi
This empty shell apartment costs $15 million, but the views are knockout
What does $15 million buy in Melbourne’s prestige property market these days? A blank canvas apartment in Eureka Tower, looking for a dream fitout.
- by Elizabeth Redman
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Why the cost of negative gearing tax breaks is likely to rise
The federal budget could miss out on billions in revenue in coming years and economists have called for reforms to bring Australia’s housing tax policy into line with international standards.
- by Tawar Razaghi
From ugly duckling to Tamarama glamour as $20 million penthouses unveiled
Sydney’s newest prestige beachside penthouses have finally been put back up for sale, overcoming the final hitch in a complex operation to update an eyesore block.
- by Sue Williams
Buyers paying massive premiums for waterfront properties
Buyers looking to snap up a home on Australia’s coastline are paying some of the highest prices in the world, and demand is rising.
- by Kate Burke
Prestige real estate agency has fines withdrawn for underquoting
Consumer Affairs Victoria has withdrawn almost $30,000 in fines it had issued to prestige real estate agency Kay & Burton, without giving a reason.
- by Elizabeth Redman
Liquid gold: Perth’s waterfront properties have some of the highest premiums in the world
A property by the beach or the river in Perth is so sought after it has taken of the top five slots in a global report.
- by Sarah Brookes
After peaking at 44 per cent growth, is Byron Bay’s property boom over?
The northern coastal jewel once had the fastest house price growth in regional NSW as city dwellers made a pandemic sea change, but it has fallen off the league table.
- by Tawar Razaghi
What are the top ways to future-proof your home and increase its value?
Some homes being built now are already out of date, but by adding a few features to an existing or new home, owners can reap the benefits.
- by Tawar Razaghi
This empty shell apartment costs $15 million, but the views are knockout
What does $15 million buy in Melbourne’s prestige property market these days? A blank canvas apartment in Eureka Tower, looking for a dream fitout.
- by Elizabeth Redman
Mosman’s Breen family scores quiet $19 million sale
The Adamo family have bought the 3000-square-metre Mosman home; Optus chief Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has sold in Bowral; and rugby league great Benny Elias has bought in the Horizon tower.
- by Lucy Macken
Young couple who ‘weren’t really looking’ buy $1.5 million East Brunswick terrace at auction
A young couple who had not even been hunting for a home won a hard-fought auction, pipping their rival at the post with a $500 bid and a plan to beat future interest rate rises.
- by Elizabeth Redman
First home buyers ‘happy to outbid boomer investors’ for $1.83 million Darlington terrace
The deceased estate needs roof repairs and a fix for its rising damp, in renovations that could cost up to $1.5 million.
- by Tawar Razaghi
Castlecrag’s Salteri family show their neighbourly side as $11.6 million buyers
When it comes to keeping up with the Joneses, the Salteri family don’t keep up. They buy them.
- by Lucy Macken
Sydney private schools go on $100 million buying bonanza
It isn’t just rich listers buying up neighbouring homes to make a larger estate for themselves. Private schools are the most prolific buyers of the post-pandemic property boom.
- by Lucy Macken
Spanish Mission apartment takes shape in the Gatwick Private Hotel
On the ground floor of The Block’s Gatwick Private Hotel, architects Julian Kosloff and Stephanie Bullock have created an inspired Spanish Mission-style apartment.
- by Stephen Crafti
What do super-sized interest rate rises mean for the property downturn?
In the past, a business-as-usual interest rate rise was 0.25 percentage points, but over the last three months the hikes have been double that size, and it’s already showing up in the housing market.
- by Kate Burke
Mirror image mansions built for identical twins for sale for $78 million
Love thy neighbour: The sentiment takes on intense new meaning with these identical houses built by identical twins in Florida, available as a package deal.
- by Emily Power
Blanche d’Alpuget swaps one CBD luxury spread for another next door
Blanche D’Alpuget, the widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke, is trading in her Hyde Park “city retreat” for another apartment in the tower next door.
- by Lucy Macken
Tick tock: Property clocks show where the housing market downturn is deepest
Is the property market in your area at its peak or moving closer to a trough? A new report shows where the downturn is gathering pace.
- by Kate Burke
Real estate agency sprung ‘bragging’ about a $225 per week price hike
A property company has been exposed celebrating a $225 per week rental price rise as an “achievement”, even shocking landlords who said the increase was not justified.
- by Emily Power
Neighbourhoods where house prices have fallen by six figures as interest rates rise
More than $200,000 has been wiped from property prices in some sought-after areas in three months, and experts say the full impact of rate hikes on property prices is yet to be felt.
- by Kate Burke