Kristy Johnson
Kristy is a Sydney Property Reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Dad buys $2.9m Marrickville house for daughter minutes after first viewing
The Bellevue Hill father inspected the four-bedroom house for the first time just half an hour before the auction on Saturday morning. The guide was $2.2 million.
- by Kristy Johnson
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Collette Dinnigan’s former Paddington home sells for $12.1 million
The four-bedroom home sold for almost three times what the fashion designer paid for the cottage in 2009 to a local family who were looking to upsize within the suburb.
- by Kristy Johnson and Tawar Razaghi
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NSW residential property
Interactive calculator: How much you need to borrow to buy in each Sydney suburb
Exclusive analysis shows how unreachable Sydney’s property market has become for first-home buyers – and it’s even worse than you think.
- by Kristy Johnson and Elizabeth Redman
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Victoria residential property
Interactive calculator: How much you need to borrow to buy in each Melbourne suburb
Exclusive analysis shows just how out of reach Melbourne’s property market has become for aspiring homeowners on average incomes.
- by Jim Malo and Kristy Johnson
‘A beautiful pocket’: The Sydney suburbs people never want to leave
Robert and Eleni Bonanno love their postcode so much that they are upsizing to live just 800 metres away from their current address.
- by Kristy Johnson
Investor outbids first home buyers for $855,500 Coogee one-bedder
The tightly held home, which had a $780,000 price guide, was on the market for the first time in 56 years and is just 250 metres from Coogee Beach.
- by Kristy Johnson
Architect buys long-admired Forest Lodge house in his street for $3m
The architect and his family were upsizing from another property in the same street, and had been coveting the property for some time.
- by Kristy Johnson
The Sydney suburbs where rents are getting cheaper
Only a handful of sought-after areas have fallen over the past 12 months as Sydneysiders hit the limits of what they can afford.
- by Kristy Johnson
The Sydney suburbs where rents jumped up to 30 per cent in a year
Houses and units from the northern beaches to the inner west, west and south-west recorded a double-digit surge in the year to September.
- by Kristy Johnson
Dad helps daughter in her 20s buy $1.6m Marrickville home
All three active bidders for the run-down Marrickville house with no kitchen were first home buyers, assisted by the bank of mum and dad.
- by Kristy Johnson
Interstate buyer outbids local renter for $4 million East Lindfield house
The four-bedroom house last sold for $1,585,000 in 2006, records show, more than doubling in price on Saturday after three buyers competed for it at auction.
- by Kristy Johnson
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