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Michael Tuohy, 29, has been house hunting with his partner, Alexia, for six months.

Moving from a Sydney unit to a house gets five times harder in a generation

With Sydney’s median house price almost double that of the typical unit in the city, the difference between the two property types has turned into a chasm.

  • Kristy Johnson

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A reimagined 1880s cottage in Erskineville sold for $3.22 million at auction on Saturday to a first-home buyer from Alexandria.

First home buyer splashes $3.22m on cottage that last fetched $555,000

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If more empty nesters downsized, it could help alleviate the housing crisis.

How Australia can house a growing population without building more homes

The government wants 1.2 million homes built over the next five years. But what about the 3.5 million spare bedrooms across the country?

  • Sue Williams
Elena and Jim Softsis outside their Croydon home, which is within the Malvern Hill Estate heritage conservation area.

‘It would just ruin it’: The Sydney suburb wriggling its way out of the state’s housing policy

Croydon was one of 31 suburbs with train stations selected by the state government for higher density housing. Now that looks set to change.

  • Michael Koziol
Serdar Yilmaz is moving from his Pascoe Vale townhouse to a larger home in Greenvale.

The Melbourne suburbs where homebuyers can spend the least for extra space

The price difference between a smaller home and a bigger one can be more than $1m in some areas. In others, buyers can live large for an extra $200,000 or less.

  • Jim Malo
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There is a smarter strategy than paying off your mortgage which could allow you to both upsize and retain your current home as an investment property.

Help! Our family is outgrowing our home, how do we afford a new one?

There is a smarter strategy than paying off your mortgage, and it could allow you to both upsize and retain your current home as an investment property.

  • Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
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Sydney upsizers face record gap between unit and house prices

More than $794,000 now separates the harbour city’s median house price of almost $1,591,000 and unit price of about $796,500.

  • Kate Burke
Lagging unit prices have dragged down overall prices in some suburbs.

The Perth councils with homes selling at a loss, despite property boom

Property prices have soared but in a handful of neighbourhoods, homes are selling for less than the price they previously fetched.

  • Sarah Brookes
Monica Nakata 

A tale of two dwellings: Why more Sydneysiders are buying second homes

A slew of Sydneysiders are now dividing their time between two home bases; a city pad and a home in the country or on the coast.

  • Sue Williams

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