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Inside Sydney’s worst multimillion dollar homes
Crumbling hoarder houses, drug labs and uninhabitable buildings abandoned for years sold for up to $4.6m this year as COVID spurred an unexpected home buying frenzy.
Most popular suburbs with buyers, renters in 2020
COVID-19 encouraged Sydneysiders to rethink where they wanted to live this year and both buyers and renters made new choices in the suburbs where they went looking for a home, research shows.
Biggest barrier for first-time buyers revealed
Interest rates are at record lows and governments are rolling out more support than ever, but would-be first homebuyers say there’s a big obstacle preventing them from capitalising.
Aussies ‘worried’ about holidays: poll
Christmas and the rest of the holidays could be missing some festive cheer for much of the country, with a new survey showing many Aussies are anxious about meeting certain obligations.
Key habit killing Aussies’ hopes of owning home
High prices are often blamed for decreasing home ownership rates but new research suggests many Aussies are sabotaging their hopes of climbing the property ladders with their actions.
Abandoned wreck sells for $2.65m
A whopping 28 bidders lined up in the rain to vie for a largely uninhabitable Sydney home left vacant for the past 10 years but it was one of multiple shock sales this weekend.
‘Crazy’: modest house sells $790k over reserve
A crowd was left gobsmacked at a Sydney auction after a modest house sold for $790,000 above an already ambitious reserve. And agents are saying it may be a signal of things to come.
Recovery in unit sales – with a catch
Green shoots are beginning to emerge in Sydney’s once struggling off the plan sector but the stronger sales have been for one very particular type of newly built apartment.
Huge price for crumbling home with no bathroom
A one-bedroom house left vacant for 10 years has been attracting a flurry of interest from potential buyers despite a crumbling interior, overgrown block and lofty price tag.
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