Queensland residential property
Sydney buyer nabs brick unit in Coorparoo for $800k in ‘aggressive’ auction
“We really targeted first-home buyers with this one. I posted a little rhyme on Instagram that said ‘Are you thirsty for a firsty?’ and it just took off,” said the real estate agent behind the sale.
- Sarah Webb
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Seller, 80, auctions Carindale home for $2.2 million before his wedding
The five-bedroom house has resold just 12 months after its last sale, delivering a $220,000 windfall for its owner and closing the loop on a love story that began with a break-up.
- Sarah Webb
Brisbane now most expensive place to build in Australia
The trend could push house prices up considerably and cause more blowouts for major projects, according to one expert.
- William Davis
Brisbane landlords ask for record-high rents, but the market just changed
Brisbane’s red-hot unit rental market has scaled new heights, but tenants looking for a house have a glimmer of hope.
- Sarah Webb
‘The whole package’: Family shells out for luxury home with waterslide, cricket pitch and cinema
A family from two suburbs away secured the keys to the seven-bedroom, five-bathroom home, narrowly outpacing an underbidder who lived just one street over.
- Sarah Webb
The sea- and tree-change towns where property profits rose most
Profits for home sellers have increased by hundreds of thousands of dollars in the most popular regional areas over the past five years.
- Jim Malo
‘Everyone knew Ken’: Singing Ascot legend’s cottage sells for $3.05 million
Among real estate auctions, the cottage of a cherished local has changed hands – marking the end of a 60-year chapter for a man known for serenading strangers and handing out flowers.
- Sarah Webb
Pre-war cottage snapped up for just over a million in three-minute auction
“There’s termite damage everywhere you look, and because it’s pre-war you can’t knock it down. If it wasn’t, we would have had 100 people through it.”
- Sarah Webb
Boatie drops anchor – and $2.3 million – on New Farm top-floor apartment
Among the homes auctioned in Brisbane at the weekend was this apartment, boasting water views from almost every room.
- Sarah Webb
‘Buyers aren’t mucking around’: Cottage sets price record at lightning-fast auction
In one of 145 scheduled auctions across Brisbane over the past week, a pint-sized Greenslopes postwar house stuns the sellers and auctioneer.
- Sarah Webb
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