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Aidan DevineReal estate editor

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

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A familly of migrants, consult a medical worker from Doctors without Borders (MSF) aid organisation, in a room of a repurposed Sarajevo suburban house, on March 19, 2018.  More than 60 migrants, including 28 children, are currently accommodated at this location, under care of a small group of local and International volontary aid workers. A new Balkan route through Bosnia has opened up for migrants, four years after a crisis in which more than one million people landed on Europe's shores. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, took the so-called Balkans route northwest of Greece in 2015 and 2016.  / AFP PHOTO / ELVIS BARUKCIC

Record migrant arrivals spur home shortage

NSW’s population grew by 123,105 in the past year, driven by the arrival of 98,782 migrants, but the state is running out of properties to accommodate the record levels of overseas migration, sending land costs spiralling.

Sydney
19/230 William St, Woolloomooloo. NSW real estate.

Pad with Harbour views for sale at $500k

DREAMING of gazing out across the Harbour from the comfort of your bedroom or lounge? An inner city unit with a panaromic view of the CBD, Harbour Bridge and Opera House is up for grabs at a rock bottom price.

Sydney
This Western Sydney home required a team of removalists to clear the clutter before it resold. NSW real estate.

Shocking cost we pay for hoarding habits

THE AVERAGE families’ hoarding habits are now costing them nearly $7800 a year in unnecessary doubling up of items but the cost is even larger when it comes time to sell, research shows.

NSW
96 - 104 Cabarita Rd, Avalon is owned by Mortgage Choice co-founder Peter Higgins and is on the market for about $30 million

Listed 8 years and still no sale

THEY’VE got dramatic water views and designer finishes — but some of Sydney’s most alluring homes have been languishing on the market unsold for up to eight years due to some surprising moves by the owners.

NSW
15 Stuart St, Blakehurst. NSW real estate.

Is this Sydney’s most Italian home?

DREAMING of escaping to Italy? You might not need to travel as far as you’d think. A marble home in Sydney’s south has been listed with a range of features straight out of a Tuscan postcard.

Sydney
The property at 48 Queen Street, Newtown NSW

House hunting turns into dangerous pursuit

MANY of the roughly 950 homes going to auction today are in such bad shape agents are refusing to take buyers through them due to safety risks. Shocking images reveal some of the hazards awaiting visitors inside.

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