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Birchgrove recorded the highest views per listing in Sydney.

Where to find nine out of Sydney’s 10 most sought-after suburbs

Potential home buyers are choosing character, community and a village feel, based on a new analysis of the number of views per listing.

  • Sue Williams

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Ballast Point Park in Birchgrove was built on a former Caltext Oil site, and for most of the 20th century operated as a key oil storage and distribution depot.

The Sydney spaces that are redefining the city’s heritage

The final jewels in Sydney’s “Green Necklace” have been heritage listed, following a concerted push by architects to safeguard green space along Sydney Harbour.

  • Cindy Yin
The historic sandstone Birchgrove home Keba

Finance whiz buys neighbour’s $21m home, smashing inner west suburb record

An over-the-fence deal for an 1878-built sandstone house has reset the record books on the inner west peninsula.

  • Tawar Razaghi
Road-headers have carved a tunnel overlapping the metro rail line near Victoria Cross station.

The two giant overlapping tunnels that pass metres apart below Sydney

Six giant road headers are working around the clock to dig the first new road crossing of Sydney Harbour in 30 years.

  • Megan Gorrey
The Wharf, Birchgrove

The luxurious holiday home rentals that cost up to $150,000 a night

Rich summer visitors to Sydney are paying up to stay in the lap of absolute luxury, but there is better value around.

  • Sue Williams
1B Paradise Avenue, Avalon Beach

Eleven of our favourite NSW homes on the market

From penthouses and classic terraces to beachside beauties and sprawling country estates, we’ve rounded up the best homes for sale in NSW right now.

  • Pauline Morrissey and Lou Sweeney
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159 Rowntree Street Birchgrove

Tri-level home in harbourside ’burb linked to Toni Collette fetches $5.8m

A “very humble” young doctor was prepared to pay whatever it took at auction to win the home for himself and his mother.

  • Carmen Forward
Jane Lu bought a house from Kerry Schott.

From her parents’ garage to a $13.75m waterfront home by age 37

Two business brains came together on title records when Showpo’s Jane Lu bought energy tzar Kerry Schott’s Birchgrove house.

  • Lucy Macken
An architectural tour group on the trail in Birchgrove.

Tours of other people’s homes gain in popularity

Interest in architecture grew during the pandemic when social media accounts on the topic flourished online, say experts.

  • Julie Power
A Dulwich Hill apartment sold for $880,000 at auction on Saturday.

Downsizer outbids first home buyers for $880,000 Dulwich Hill unit

Four of the five bidders on the two-bedroom apartment were first home buyers, but it was a downsizer who walked away with the keys.

  • Kate Burke

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