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How much does it cost to buy a home with an extra bedroom?
The cost-of-living crisis is colliding with home owners’ search for enough space to accommodate their family.
- by Elizabeth Redman
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Cruel summer for Perth renters as indoor temperatures hit 37 degrees
Claire Phelan doesn’t invite people to her home. She finds it humiliating that she has to live in unbearable heat.
- by Sarah Brookes
Was it really hotter inside than out this summer? 100 renters found out
A hot summer, a rental crisis and a cost-of-living crisis left some homes ranging from uncomfortable to nearly unlivable.
- by Jim Malo and Kate Burke
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Alan Jones has ‘no plans’ to sell Toaster apartment despite secret viewings
Interested buyers have to sign gag orders before they can even be shown the Sydney home of Alan Jones.
- by Lucy Macken, Andrew Hornery and Kate McClymont
Savvy bank of mum and dad buy as family joins forces for $3.48m home
The buyer and their parents are both selling their homes to live in this one together, rather than move further out of Sydney separately.
- by Carmen Forward
Family splashes $6.85m on Albert Park two-bedder with reno plans
The new owners could create a contemporary home that retains the history of stables that have been on the site for 100 years.
- by Tom Carey
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Rental crisis deepens as number of bonds drop for first time on record
The number of homes being leased in Victoria has fallen year-on-year for the first time since records began, while the number of new rental properties hitting the market has also plunged.
- by Kieran Rooney
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RecipeTin Eats’ Nagi Maehashi cooks up $7m high-end home purchase
She opted out of corporate life and focused on her love of cooking, in a city where success so often translates to high-end real estate.
- by Lucy Macken
First-home buyers nab Petersham townhouse for $1,765,000
Buyers priced out of the housing market are competing fiercely for next-best options, agents say, on another red-hot Sydney Saturday.
- by Tawar Razaghi
Real estate agency charged after auction sale smashes price guide
The townhouse in Melbourne’s north-east was initially listed for $900,000 to $950,000, then raised to $1 to $1.1million. It sold for more than $1.5 million.
- by Alex Crowe
Scenes of joy as family secure $1,585,000 Bentleigh East home at auction
The successful buyer couldn’t contain his joy. David Rizkalla dropped the cool, disinterested auction persona the moment the hammer fell and he bought the house.
- by Jim Malo