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Kirsten CrazeReal Estate Journalist

Kirsten has been reporting on the property market for more than eight years with News Corp including long stints in print with the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph and also on suburban publications in London. The self-confessed property junkie now covers all things real estate for news.com.au. Get in touch if you have a house hunting yarn or a story to tell.More from Kirsten Craze

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Caption 2: A waterfront family property on Del Monte Pl in Copacabana, NSW was sold in February for $2.135 million.

54 new suburbs break $1 million barrier

A million dollar median house price is fast becoming the norm, not the exception, for many suburbs around Australia. Find out if your suburb has cracked $1 million yet.

Real Estate

University sells Mosman mansion for $6.6m

A Mosman mansion that has been the official vice-chancellor residence for the Australian Catholic University since 1992 has sold for $6.6 million after just 20 days on the market.

Sydney & NSW

The Covid year has meant that Amy Lee has spent less and saved lots to the point where she and her partner are ready to enter the housing market. Picture: John Appleyard

Millennials put ‘accidental savings’ to property

A silver lining surrounding the cloud of COVID has been the level of “accidental savings” Australians made in 2020, with many millennials putting that new-found cash towards property.

Real Estate

Modern houses in a new housing estate viewed from above. housing generic

Silver lining of new vacancy record

While investors in Australia’s two biggest property markets are still waiting for a change in conditions, savvy buyers have found areas where it’s a completely different ball game.

Real Estate

This humble Gold Coast cottage earned a $340,000 profit in just six months. Picture: Supplied

Seven signs the housing market is going nuts

Doomsayers declared real estate prices would fall off a cliff a year ago, with predictions of a 30 per cent crash. Those property pessimists couldn’t be more wrong. See the crazy things buyers are doing to get into the market.

Real Estate

Jessica Brady, co-host of Ladies Talk Money, says governments need to do more to address the property ownership divide between the sexes. Picture: Supplied

Australia’s great gender property divide

While the gender pay gap is always a hot topic around International Women’s Day, it is the wealth divide caused by a disparity in property ownership that has come under the spotlight.

Buying

The auction crowd for 21 Bangalore Street, Kensington - for herald sun real estate

What’s fuelling Australia’s property insanity

The interest in housing is hitting new levels – with a key element fuelling the country’s red hot property market right now. But the dream run may be about to end — leaving some buyers exposed.

Sydney & NSW

$Rhys Richards invested 23,000 dollars into a "Bricklett," an investment method of buying a fractional ownership of a property. Picture: David Swift$