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Newtown is among the inner Sydney suburbs with a median house price of $2 million or less.

The last inner Sydney suburbs where houses cost under $2m

Popular inner suburbs are being hit by a rush of potential buyers, eager to snare a home before any more rate cuts.

  • Sue Williams

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Felix Kiera.

Inner west man charged over alleged hate graffiti spree

A 21-year-old man has been charged with more than 50 offences relating to spray-painting in Newtown and Erskineville.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
How Jay and Dean turned a tiny Victorian terrace in Sydney’s Erskineville into a contemporary abode.

How an artist turned a tiny two-bedder into an award-nominated family home

The clever build has multi-functional rooms, depending on the time of day or who is in the house, and a light box on top.

  • Kristy Johnson
Residents fear Erskineville will turn into Green Square if developers are granted further increases to permitted building heights.

‘We will end up like Green Square’: Erko goes berserko over one extra storey

Dozens of objections to an additional level and baroque roof at a massive redevelopment in Erskineville have revealed fears the suburb will turn into Zetland or Waterloo.

  • Michael Koziol
27 Oxford Road, Strathfield

Doctor buys lavish $7.1 million Strathfield home with 10-car basement

The home also features five bedrooms and a pool, and a collection of well-to-do bidders contested the auction.

  • Carmen Forward

Young couple beats 14 others to splash $3.2m on trend-defying red brick house

The home was in a local heritage conservation area, not traditionally as popular, but had features that proved a standout.

  • Tawar Razaghi
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Almost a dozen buyers registered to bid on the home that had been owned since 1990.

Lane Cove investment property bought in 1990 for $250,000 sells for $3.5 million

Eleven buyers – a mix of young families and developers, who were eyeing it for its knock down potential – registered to bid. But one group didn’t even get a look in.

  • Tawar Razaghi
The proposed automatic public toilet for Erskineville, which will play music while you do your business.

Sydney’s most controversial public toilet. A constipated story

If it’s this hard for a council to build a single public toilet on land it owns, what hope do we really have of fixing housing, infrastructure, transport and the myriad other challenges facing our city?

  • Michael Koziol
Striploin with chimichurri butter, twice-cooked chips and cos lettuce.

Former Chiswick chef swaps fine-dining for fancy pub classics at this inner west favourite

This beloved inner west local’s menu has been given a luxurious twist.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Drugs seized during the raids.

‘Big money’: Police arrest five men, seize $15 million worth of drugs in two-day blitz

Detectives executed 13 warrants, seized $15 million worth of drugs and froze $8 million worth of assets during the two-day blitz of international crime syndicates.

  • Sarah Keoghan

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