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A two-bedroom home at 31 Perrott Street in Paddington that sold at auction on July 26, 2025 after 30 years of being abandoned.

Slice of history: Local family shells out $3m for antique-filled abandoned home

The folklore-laced fixer-upper has remained in the same family for more than a century, but has sat empty since the ’90s.

  • Sarah Webb

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Brisbane’s median house and unit prices are at a record high.

Brisbane house prices hit a record high - and one suburb nears a $3m median

Brisbane’s median house price has surged by $22,000 in just three months, reaching a new record high as interest rates fall. 

  • Sarah Webb
The brick unit is one of eight, a short walk from Coorparoo’s cafe strip.

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
The house at 64 Oakley Street in Carindale has sold at auction in Brisbane.

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
Construction costs in Brisbane are now higher than anywhere else in Australia.

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 rents are at record highs.

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
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The Stretton home was described as “one of those big lifestyle homes with big bedrooms and the whole package”.

‘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
Despite a big lift in median profits, local agents say it hasn’t been all sunshine for the Byron area.

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
33 Ascot Street, Ascot, Brisbane auction

‘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
“It does need a lot of work. There’s termite damage everywhere you look,” the selling agent said.

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

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