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Lucy Macken is the prestige property reporter and Title Deeds columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald.

Hunters Hill ‘abandoned mansion’ gets last-minute reprieve from mortgagee
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Hunters Hill ‘abandoned mansion’ gets last-minute reprieve from mortgagee

Intrigue has surrounded the house ever since the owners walked out a few years ago with teacups left on the kitchen bench and shoes lying by the front door.

  • by Lucy Macken

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Servo mogul shrugs off liquidation, aims to sell record-setting $10.5m home
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Servo mogul shrugs off liquidation, aims to sell record-setting $10.5m home

He paid a record-setting price last year when he purchased his 16-room mansion with indoor swimming pool, and is no doubt hoping to better the price.

  • by Lucy Macken
Fugitive Jean Nassif’s waterfront Chiswick house hits market
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Fugitive Jean Nassif’s waterfront Chiswick house hits market

Just before Sydney’s property market closes for the summer comes one of the year’s most anticipated listings - the home of a famous Lebanon expat.

  • by Lucy Macken
He complained about restaurant noise in Palm Beach. Then he sold for $9.5m
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He complained about restaurant noise in Palm Beach. Then he sold for $9.5m

One local who made a noise complaint about The Joey’s bid for extended opening hours has now made a whisper quiet $9.5m property sale.

  • by Lucy Macken
The $2.5m Hunters Hill boat shed that might be worth a lot less
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The $2.5m Hunters Hill boat shed that might be worth a lot less

How much is open public space worth? Council paid $2.515 million for one waterfront block in 2002, but are now willing to let it go.

  • by Lucy Macken
Thirty-something makes $12m profit in three years flipping Sydney house
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Thirty-something makes $12m profit in three years flipping Sydney house

Annabelle Shamir paid $30 million for a Bellevue Hill house three years ago. It just sold for about $42 million.

  • by Lucy Macken
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Property boss sells $15m two-bed beach house, buys $32m digs down the road
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Property boss sells $15m two-bed beach house, buys $32m digs down the road

There are only seven houses that line the waterfront on Palm Beach’s Waratah Road, so when one is for sale it’s with good reason.

  • by Lucy Macken
Meet Sydney’s teenage trophy home shoppers spending millions – in cash
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Meet Sydney’s teenage trophy home shoppers spending millions – in cash

Interest rates are tipped to stay high next week, but that won’t worry high-end buyers paying as much as $19 million for their dream homes.

  • by Lucy Macken
Luxurious Sydney home that doesn’t even exist yet fetches $61.7m
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Luxurious Sydney home that doesn’t even exist yet fetches $61.7m

Get in quick: there are only five left, they’re nearly in the same stratosphere as James Packer’s bachelor pad, and they eclipsed a Rich Lister garbo.

  • by Lucy Macken
How a little-known former hotel mogul paid $80m for one of Sydney’s finest homes
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How a little-known former hotel mogul paid $80m for one of Sydney’s finest homes

Little is known about Hoang Trang Do, apart from his impressive real estate portfolio, but if any house says, “you’ve made it”, then this does.

  • by Lucy Macken
Vaucluse house that kicked off tech billionaire’s woes sold for $15.1m

Vaucluse house that kicked off tech billionaire’s woes sold for $15.1m

The six-bedroom house wasn’t a good investment for WiseTech Global’s chief, by any measure, but it did at least return a whopping capital gain to the wife of drug dealer Mark Chikarovski.

  • by Lucy Macken

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