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Aidan DevineReal estate editor

Aidan Devine is the real estate editor for the Daily Telegraph.

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NSW
Former Strathfield mayor Rod Rimes and wife Lyn at home, in Strathfield, today.They are selling their home off after 44 years. Research shows Strathfield has had the biggest increase in prices for Sydney over much of the past 20 years. Picture: Justin Lloyd.

Sydney’s best suburb to be a home seller

There may be a housing slump, but homeowners have continued to pocket massive windfalls from their property sales in a handful of Sydney suburbs that remain fiercely popular with buyers.

Sydney
1 Beech Lane, Casuarina NSW.

Spaceship house you can buy without $$$

No dollars? No problem. A spaceship like house in NSW is due to come up for sale in a world-first auction where the home seller wants to receive something else besides normal money.

Sydney
A house in the English seaside town of Ilfracombe is due to go to auction with the interior covered in bird droppings. Real estate. Picture: Webbers

Bargain price for home coated in poo

Warning: Make sure you’ve finished what you’re eating before looking further. This four-bedroom house is in such a state, that its upper levels can only be accessed by ladder.

Sydney
Auction coverage at 10 Wallace St, Willoughby NSW 2068, Australia.Michael from Coffee Kombi is kept very busy on Saturday's running between real estate open house and keeping Simon Jaeger Auctioneer buzzed with coffee. Picture's Darren Leigh Roberts

Want free stuff? Go to an auction

Real estate agents have been trying to perk up falling attendance at Sydney home auctions by offering tantalising giveaways and incentives for house hunters to register for bidding.

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