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Unlike banks and casinos, real estate agents don’t have to do due diligence checks on customers or report suspicious transactions.

Organised crime and armoured cars of cash: The dirty money pushing up Australian house prices

They looked like any other couple at the auction. But the Russians had a secret.

  • Sherryn Groch

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Customers at Lost bar in Chinatown.

Night owls drive Melbourne’s bar and restaurant boom

Lost Bar on Little Bourke is part of a wave of hospitality, entertainment and food operators looking to profit from the city’s booming nightlife.

  • Simon Johanson
Hotel mogul Jerry Schwartz wanted a helipad at the Sofitel Sydney Darling Harbour.

Sky’s no limit at Jerry Schwartz’s Sofitel hotel in Darling Harbour

The property baron and rich-lister is opting for an extravagant addition on top of his landmark building.

  • Carolyn Cummins
Render of Collins Arcade, the new name for 260 Collins Street which is re-opening in October.

After ten years in the retail wilderness, St Collins finds tenants and a new name

The ill-fated St Collins Lane is set for a solid, if dull, new name when it opens in October after a $50 million revamp – Collins Arcade.

  • Nicole Lindsay
Chenchow opted for an unusual treatment of the windows – with the large thermal glass windows being fixed and smaller apertures to one side, with operable timber shutters allowing for ventilation.

Landlocked, this wood-clad home has edgy views over Sydney Harbour

A stone’s throw from the beach in exclusive Vaucluse sits a home with angled windows that look out over the harbour.

  • Stephen Crafti
Arthur Laundy at his Red Lion pub in Rozelle.

Pub veteran Laundy sells $30m proposed hotel site at Cobbity

Arthur Laundy has sold a greenfield development site in Sydney’s south-west that will eventually become the Oxley Ridge Tavern.

  • Carolyn Cummins
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10 Queens Road has sold in the high $20 millions.

Carnage on leafy St Kilda boulevard as property values crash-land

Basketball tsar Larry Kestelman sold a Queens Road tower for $59 million in 2019. Now it’s changed hands for less than half that sum.

  • Nicole Lindsay
Well-known Sydney publican Patrick Gallagher has bought the leasehold of Jacksons on George.

Popular Sydney watering hole trades to Gallagher family for $20m

Jacksons on George has returned to the hands of its former owners.

  • Carolyn Cummins
The new Koko Black store in Chadstone’s Market Pavilion.

Pre-Easter raid delivers fresh chocolates to Koko Black

Chocolate maker Koko Black is buying rival confectioner Chocolatier.

  • Nicole Lindsay
The property was refurbished just before the Comedor opened.

Comedor shook up Sydney before it abruptly closed. Now the venue is up for sale

The warehouse that housed the innovative Mexican fusion restaurant is on the market three months after the venue shut its doors.

  • Carolyn Cummins

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