Financial markets are fast-paced. Things change, go out of style, become hot again. But not everything. Five decades ago, The Australian Financial Review surveyed where the country’s top stockbrokers lived. On Sydney’s north shore and eastern suburbs, it turned out. Now, stockbrokers are out – investment bankers are in. And no prizes for guessing where they live.

“[Point Piper] is the top of the totem pole. There are waterfront homes looking straight at the [Harbour] Bridge. It is a small peninsula, within a peninsula,” Michael Pallier, an experienced trophy agent with Sotheby’s International Realty, tells AFR Weekend.