Property market

The auction market is stronger than last spring as lower interest rates boost buyer confidence, but slipped over the past month.

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The dilapidated three-bedroom home, which the agent thought was “too much work” for many buyers, soared past its reserve.

Hundreds of orders for developers to fix defective homes in Sydney have been issued over the past four years. This is where they are.

The cost to rent a house in some of Perth’s most in-demand school catchment areas has ballooned in a year, in one suburb by more than 50 per cent.

If you could go back a decade, would you buy in a blue-chip suburb – or would you take a chance on the fringe?

Sydney property owners have gotten a windfall over the last 10 years, with rises split between elite areas and the booming outer suburbs.

A first-home buyer couple with a baby on the way won the keys to a $1.3 million two-bedroom unit in the suburb at auction on Saturday.

A small apartment in Thornbury sparked a quick-fire bidding war, selling for well above its reserve at $437,000 to a first home buyer.

The Coalition’s mortgage plan would have real effects on how much you can borrow from a bank, and for the housing market.

Some of the sharpest increases are in relatively affordable suburbs, but many affluent neighbourhoods have not been spared.