Sydney house prices
Is it a better time to buy a house at auction now?
Home buying hopefuls who turned up at auctions earlier this year to take advantage of lower prices faced competition from others doing the same. But now?
- by Jim Malo
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Western Sydney couple making a sea-change buy Taren Point townhouse for $3.48 million
The young buyers had to fend off downsizers, who were keen on the home’s internal lifts, to buy the luxury property at auction on Saturday.
- by Carmen Forward
Young couple outbids 10 others for $3 million Bronte fixer-upper semi
The keen buyers in their 30s wanted to move closer to the beach and made such a strong first bid, it wiped out most competition.
- by Sarah Webb
Five Dock house attracts $5.95 million at auction, a 40 per cent profit in three years
Records show the family paid $4.18 million for the five-bedroom house in 2020, which has now paid off to the tune of $1.77 million.
- by Carmen Forward
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Centennial Park’s best house is pretty as a picture, and yours for $25m+
Gallerist Gene Sherman is again expected to set a suburb high when she sells the home she bought from Atlassian tech boss Mike Cannon-Brookes.
- by Lucy Macken
The winning apartment from The Block’s first season has sold
A piece of television history is changing hands, generating enough interest for a deal to be struck before a looming auction.
- by Kristy Johnson and Emily Power
How a 1950s brick house got a makeover that left it unrecognisable
Nicholas and Adeline saw beyond the house’s bones to envision a modern-day masterpiece that looks completely different now.
- by Carmen Forward
Ultimate bank of mum and dad buy? Parents, grandparents pool resources for $6.55m estate
Three generations of a family will share a luxurious six-bedroom home with tennis court and swimming pool they secured at auction.
- by Carmen Forward
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From a billionaire to a jailed fraudster, and now selling her $18 million Sydney pad
The life and times of China’s richest woman of 1999 could make a movie in itself, and it’s hoped the latest chapter will set a record.
- by Lucy Macken
City of Sydney has $800m in the bank. One councillor wants to use it for new homes
Councillor Sylvie Ellsmore said the City of Sydney will not meet its 15 per cent target for affordable and social housing by 2036.
- by Andrew Taylor
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If only you’d had a lazy $10m to buy in Point Piper after the GFC
There’s no price guide on this beachfront home, but the nearest comparable now is a $60 million fixer-upper.
- by Lucy Macken