Australia’s cheapest houses for sale
Prices may be surging in capital cities, but homes outside big cities are available for less than the price of a second-hand car, including in one spot where a house recently sold for just $5500.
Prices may be surging in capital cities, but homes outside big cities are available for less than the price of a second-hand car, including in one spot where a house recently sold for just $5500.
The family behind one of Australia’s biggest fashion empires has listed a landmark Byron Bay food collective in a bid to push the unique concept around the country.
A Western Sydney region at the centre of the city’s pipeline of new infrastructure projects has also become the standout market for first home buyers, offering the most homes under $650,000.
Frantic bidding has descended on this year’s first auctions, with some sales attracting nearly 50 bidders, but one first home buyer was able to leapfrog her rivals with some bold bidding.
A 160-year-old cottage barely the size of a garage has sold under the hammer for a flabbergasting price that has cast the home into the same league as the country’s plushest mansions.
The opportunities won’t last long – one housing category is expected to be particularly hard for buyers to secure this year, especially for buyers in three prominent city regions.
Everyone has an opinion about the housing market these days, but most are way off the mark of what’s really happening because they believe in one pervasive myth about Aussie property.
It has a kitchen, bed, bathroom and plenty more squeezed into a tiny space once part of a plane but this unusual Aussie home is also part of a housing trend sweeping the world.
Unit owners in high-rise towers have been on a knife’s edge since multiple building disasters last year – and now research shows one in five lost money on their resales in some areas.
A shocking number of split couples are choosing to continue living together long after breaking up, with a new report revealing what has forced many into these awkward arrangements.
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