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Six teenagers, including a 14-year-old boy who allegedly drove the car, have been arrested.

Teens’ inner west joyride ends in crash, Porsche lands on bed

Two boys,14, have been changed, and four teens arrested after a police pursuit in Erskineville, while two vehicles crashed into homes in separate incidents.

  • Amber Schultz and Kayla Olaya

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An Epping buyer bid against himself by $100,000 at auction on Saturday to buy a North Ryde house for $2,050,000.

Epping buyer bids against himself to buy North Ryde house for $2,050,000

An Epping buyer was the only active bidder at auction on Saturday for a three-bedroom house in North Ryde that was guided at $2 million.

  • Kristy Johnson
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
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
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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
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

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