This Month
Developer Jreissati cuts $1.5m from Eureka Tower penthouse price
It’s the latest effort by the family to sell their level-82 apartment in a building one pundit calls the city’s “white elephant”.
Sydney home gets $200k above reserve, as Melbourne auctions rocket
The nation’s preliminary auction clearance rate notched higher for a fourth consecutive week, but the number of homes going under the hammer remains light on.
Famed tea growers’ WA farm in new hands after sale exceeding $50m
The Oaks, near Esperance on WA’s south coast, has been in the hands of the Russell family, descendants of a famed British tea entrepreneur, for 50 years.
Rate hold ‘scary’ for Melbourne mother selling family home
Mother of three Kristy Duke is disappointed by Tuesday’s cash rate decision. Analysts expect it will blunt some of the energy in the housing recovery.
Toorak wellness house sells with feng shui approval after asking $39m
An award-winning mansion designed for healthy living has sold in a deal that involved multiple time zones.
Billionaire Salteris add $10.2m luxury estate to rural collection
The tycoon and his wife have added a third NSW Southern Highlands property to their holdings, near Bowral.
June
Luxury Byron escape sold to mystery buyer
The creatives behind Byron Bay’s Sun Ranch have now sold the luxury retreat, with new owners set to carry on the brand.
‘Unlivable’ Sydney home sells for $2.5m
Auction clearance rates have surged to their highest level in almost a year, as falling interest rates bolster buyer confidence.
Royal visit crowns Sydney’s ultra-luxury apartment project
Banda property founder Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, husband of Princess Beatrice, discusses his first Sydney design project called 81 Yarranabbe.
Chinese-born Millennial pays $141m for Australia’s priciest penthouse
A search of corporate records linked to the purchaser’s name threw up more than 140 potential candidates. One in particular stood out.
Ex-Goldman Sachs chair splurges on $14.5m mansion
Former Goldman Sachs banker Christian Johnston and his businesswoman wife Jinah have paid $14.5 million for Portsea mansion Marlborough House.
Point Piper’s $130m Elaine returns to market as four trophy estates
Scott Farquhar’s former Point Piper estate Elaine has been purchased by a consortium of developers who are offering the landmark site as four luxury homes.
Pub baron Jim Knox to sell $50m Riverina hotel
The regional pub baron is looking to sell The Gem Hotel in Griffith. Its hefty price tag could put it among the most expensive country pubs sold to date.
How to join the top 10pc of property investors
Many people aspire to owning a portfolio of properties, but most give up after one.
Farming couple, lotteries boss smash Qld apartment records
The buyers of Queensland’s most expensive luxury apartments on the Gold Coast have been revealed as a Wagga Wagga-based couple and a lotteries entrepreneur.
AI exec buys trader’s resort-style mansion in Palm Beach
In Sydney’s weekend hotspots of Palm Beach and Whale Beach, two contemporary mansions have traded ahead of the winter slowdown.
Ex-AirTrunk deputy CEO buys banker’s $14.6m home
Former AirTrunk deputy CEO Michael Juniper has taken the keys to one of Hawthorn’s most luxuriously renovated homes,
Art or architecture? This designer retreat is now up for grabs
Fancy a fur-lined wardrobe and 360-degree views of nature through full-length glass walls? One of the Apple Isle’s most striking residential projects is for sale.
Luxury penthouse in Sydney tower to sell for (a sharply reduced) $80m
The long-awaited sale of Crown’s crowning glory in Barangaroo is just days away. But the price tag is a hefty discount on original expectations.
Vaucluse couple quietly offer $25m Bowral trophy estate, again
A Bowral acreage owned by Serge and Vicky Golman is being shown off-market, with high expectations for the lavish country weekender.