This Month
Point Piper in a lather over car wash king’s swimming pool
Crystal’s Anthony Sahade has tried and (so far) failed to have a pool built 10 metres elevated above Sydney Harbour.
September 2024
Ex-Macquarie exec sells landmark mansion as Mosman eyes $50m
Former Macquarie exec David Adams has sold his landmark mansion Kilcreggan, while Walter Burley Griffin-designed landmark estate Coppins returns to market
July 2024
Architects buy Wesfarmers executive’s Cottesloe mansion
Wesfarmers heavyweight Ed Bostock has sold the family home in Cottesloe following his appointment as CFO of the conglomerate’s health division.
May 2024
ASX drops 1pc; $200m home goes on sale; What Star CEO sacking reveals
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
John Symond set to break Australia’s property record with $200m sale
The Aussie Home Loans founder’s just-listed Point Piper mansion, Wingadal, is expected to become the nation’s most expensive deal when it sells.
March 2024
David Di Pilla’s mansion compound gets green light
The deal maker-of-the-moment has been building his own residential complex in the heart of one of Sydney’s most powerful suburbs.
October 2023
The great Mark Bouris non-apology tour
Mark Bouris has tried to explain how his non-bank lender became a penny stock, running off to the Daily Mail.
June 2023
Networks laid bare at CEO sleepout
The event sheds light on some of the more powerful and deep-pocketed social and professional webs around the country.
December 2021
This non-waterfront apartment in Sydney just sold for $21m
The three-bedroom penthouse, whose price has almost tripled in just nine years, sits atop the luxury One Onslow Avenue development in Elizabeth Bay.
‘The best’: Symond lends Jeffrey Smart icon to NGA
The Aussie Home Loans founder and Rich Lister has lent a major piece from his personal collection to the National Gallery of Australia.
November 2021
The ‘Chinese Gatsby’ just sold his Sydney mansion for $20m
Businessman Sam Guo’s seven-year ownership of the historic Windermere home in Hunters Hill has been eventful, but the party is over.
December 2020
Potts Point's $12.5m Christmas Eve sale
What do Australia’s rich-list set buy their wives for Christmas?
CBA to divest majority of Aussie in Lendi merger
Commonwealth Bank of Australia will divest 55 per cent of its holding in Aussie Home Loans, merging the company with Lendi.
October 2020
The Symond family and the succession plan that wasn’t
Only a few years ago, while cruising off the coast of Monaco, James Symond marvelled at his perfect life. Just two months later, the clouds rolled in.
RBA 'green-lights' risk-taking in property investment
Locking in record-low rates for 'at least' three years has triggered a home loan war and could start a property bubble, but the Reserve Bank is not too worried.
August 2020
Aussie John Symond offloads superyacht
"Aussie" John Symond's award-winning superyacht Hasna (Arabic for "Beautiful") has just been sold.
June 2020
Aussie Home Loans CEO buys knockdown-rebuild for $13m
James Symond's new home is a Sydney property formerly owned by the Packer family for half a century that was listed two years ago with hopes of $15 million.
February 2020
Why private equity likes mortgage brokers
Private equity sees plenty of opportunity in the mortgage broking space as home lending soars and as the industry comes under pressure to consolidate.
January 2020
The properties that ultra-rich buyers splurged on
Despite the property market downturn this year, Australia's billionaires still spent big on mansions - creating record breaking sales in the process.
October 2019
Meet the family offices backing property float HomeCo
There’ll be no institutional investors on HomeCo's register when it starts trading, but there are heavyweights.