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Jan’s building has concrete cancer and harbour views. Developers are trying to persuade her to sell
Residents in crumbling apartment blocks on the north shore are being targeted with warnings of disaster unless they sell - so the buildings can be redeveloped.
- by Sue Williams
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Mascot Towers nightmare set to end as owners sell for knockdown prices
A rescue package will allow apartment owners to get out of the block and get on with their lives, although some are still missing out.
- by Sue Williams
‘Don’t think it’s ever been harder’: Brisbane first home buyers priced out
Even an entry-level Brisbane house has doubled in price over the past five years, and loan repayments are tipping many owners into mortgage stress.
- by Sarah Webb
Even a modest home is out of reach for first home buyers now
Young people who lower their expectations to an unassuming home in their second-choice location still could not comfortably afford the loan repayments.
- by Kate Burke
Land sales are booming in Perth, but dark clouds are gathering
With new land sales booming and supply struggling to keep up, there is upward pressure on the price of a vacant lot in Perth.
- by Sarah Brookes
The proportion of West Australians who own their own home is shrinking
Australia’s property market is one of the most expensive in the world, with the time taken for first home buyers to purchase a home rising in Perth.
- by Sarah Brookes
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Has Sydney’s premier trophy home Boomerang sold? Lindsay Fox won’t say
The vintage Hollywood-style mansion Boomerang has kicked off this year’s Sydney trophy home market thanks to a buyer with $80 million or more.
- by Lucy Macken
‘Very broken housing system’: More high-income earners stuck in rent trap
Higher income households that might have been able to buy a home a few decades ago are left renting as property prices soar.
- by Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
Former yoghurt mogul almost doubles his money on $40m Toorak mansion sale
David Prior has ridden the property boom since paying $23.3m to restaurateur Chris Lucas for the home on one of Melbourne’s best streets.
- by Elizabeth Redman
‘Ongoing love affair’: The type of property that buyers blow their budgets for
A house with a backyard or an apartment within walking distance to everything? Buyers are defying expectations.
- by Jim Malo and Elizabeth Redman
Bondi beach house with no parking fetches $8.5 million in hot auction
Five developers competed and the winner plans to build a luxury family home.
- by Carmen Forward