Property upsizing

April

How it sold

The five-bedroom house on 638 square metres at 3 Ramsay Street in inner-eastern Sydney’s Haberfield sold at auction for $4.77 million.

Long settlement helps buyer spend $4.77m on home

Time is money in property and there’s a trick that upsizing buyers are playing that makes the vendor their financier.

Apr 28, 2025
Michael Bleby

March 2024

How I bought It

49A Lawson Street has an open-plan living and dining space that looks out to a lawn, deck and pool.

How I bought this $3.1m designer home without being out of pocket

Munro Donen bought a three-bedroom home in Sydney’s east in a way that let him sell his old home for 5 per cent more while paying 5 per cent less simultaneously.

Mar 20, 2024
Campbell Kwan

October 2022

How it sold

The three-bedroom house at 12 Winchcombe Avenue, in inner-western Sydney’s Haberfield sold by private treaty for $3.38 million.

It’s a buyers’ market, but buyers are nervous, too

Falling prices make homes more affordable for purchasers, but this also increases the potential competition from other acquirers.

Oct 17, 2022
Michael Bleby

December 2021

How it sold

The renovated four-bedroom house on 519sq m at 31 Hetherington Street, in the inner-Brisbane suburb of Herston sold at auction for $1.85 million.

Upsizers win breathing time to wait out the market

A couple of renovators sold at the top and - thanks to a stroke of luck - can sit out rising prices and construction costs before they re-enter the market.