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Aidan DevineReal estate editor

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

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Generic Aerial pictures of Suburban Sydney

Best areas to make money from property

FORGET Sydney, Melbourne or even Brisbane — an often overlooked real estate market has now become the country’s strongest and offers property investors the best growth prospects. It’s closer than you think.

Sydney
17 Basin Rd The Ponds - real estate NSW

You’ll wish you bought a home here

RESIDENTS in two Western Sydney hubs have become the country’s most unlikely property millionaires after paying rock bottom prices for their homes and then reaping the benefits of more than $700,000 in average price growth.

Sydney
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
37 Farmingdale Drive, Blacktown is the house of the week. NSW real estate

Saving deposit takes at least 31 years

SAVING a deposit for a typical Sydney home has become next to impossible for single buyers on an average wage and would even take higher income earners decades, new financial data has revealed.

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.

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