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Sophie FosterQLD digital real estate editor

Sophie Foster has been a News Corp journalist for two decades in Australia and Fiji, specialising in real estate, finance, business and crisis journalism.

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Sophie Foster

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National

Lot 11 BOYD 5206 Island Street, South Stradbroke, Qld 4216

Is this Australia’s cheapest house?

A quirky house has hit the market at just $45,000 – half the average wage – separated by a waterway from suburbs favoured by richlisters and celebrities.

Commercial Real Estate

The historic Lake Waitaki Village – built to help create the hydro-electric dam that it is located next to – has gone viral with its price guide of over $2.9m NZ dollars (about $2.62m AUD). Picture: One Agency The Property Specialists.

Entire town for sale at price of a house

An entire town has gone viral after hitting the market at the same price as a house – and it promises adventure off cycling trails, hiking, fishing and skiing.

Data

Homeowners are being warned 'not to count their chickens before they hatch' when it comes to rates.

Shock rates warning for all homeowners

Experts have revised warnings for homeowners as shock new research shows just how much pain mortgage holders are now under.

Brisbane

32 Alexander Street, Zillmere, Qld 4034: This five bedroom home on a 607sq m block is listed at offers over $749,000. Picture: realestate.com.au

Fire damaged Brisbane house listed over $749,000

Around 300 people have a fire damaged Brisbane house on their real estate sale watchlist as property demand in the Queensland capital rages on.

Wow

Brendan McAssey made a fortune when he sold his childcare investment over eight years ago.

How to live like a richlister in a $22.5m Qld mansion

A richlister has snapped up a Queensland holiday home for $22.5m and made it available for the experience of a lifetime.

QLD

Stubborn neighbour caves, lands huge payday

A stubborn Aussie family that spent decades refusing massive offers from developers for their prime block of land just cashed in big time.

National

Key reason 25 Aus suburbs can’t lose value

It doesn’t matter what happens to interest rates in these Aussie suburbs. They all have one thing that means property prices can’t fall no matter what.

Gold Coast

Sports Australia Hall of Fame inductee Sally Pearson, Athletics pictured at an event in Melbourne Picture Supplied

Sports hall of famer Sally Pearson revs up fallback plan

Australian sports hall of famer, Olympian Sally Pearson is revving up her fallback plan as the shock shutdown of Ch7’s local news bulletin fades into 2024’s background.

QLD

Chris Jarvis employs around a dozen people in his organic meats business.

‘Didn’t spend a single cent’: 38 yo pulls 80 hr weeks for first home

A 38 year old butcher ‘didn’t spend a single cent’, working 80 hour weeks to crack the sizzling housing market for his first home, and now expects to buy his second much faster.

National

Shock as big bank now expects rate cut within weeks

In a shock development, one of the country’s big four banks now expects interest rates to be cut within weeks, delivering instant $115 a month relief back to borrowers.

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