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The rental vacancy rate is well below 3 per cent.

The graphs that show it’s a landlord’s market – and has been for decades

The once-breakneck speed of rent hikes has slowed, but it’s little relief for the many tenants looking for somewhere to live.

  • Caroline Zielinski

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Illustration of Woollahra station. The line was constructed in the 1960s, but the original station plan was abandoned due to its cost and community concern.

Opening of eastern suburbs ‘ghost station’ on the cards

The state government is seriously considering the potential opening of a long abandoned railway station in Woollahra to enable it to deliver thousands of new homes.

  • Jessica McSweeney
The Selwyn Street boarding houses will not be demolished and turned into luxury apartments by developers, a court has ruled.

The humble boarding house that beat the developers’ wrecking ball

A developer will not be able to demolish affordable housing and construct luxury apartments in Paddington, a court has ruled.

  • Kayla Olaya
Mirvac is in dispute with the Australian Turf club over land next to Canterbury Park Racecourse.

Race club takes property giant to court over $70 million land deal

Just weeks after the Rosehill sale was voted down, the Australian Turf Club is in a dispute with Mirvac over a plan to develop next to Canterbury Park Racecourse.

  • Chris Barrett
Construction costs in Brisbane are now higher than anywhere else in Australia.

Brisbane now most expensive place to build in Australia

The trend could push house prices up considerably and cause more blowouts for major projects, according to one expert.

  • William Davis
The Joinery, Annandale, will include 577 homes with 220 affordable rentals for essential workers.

How a prime piece of inner west Sydney land will be transformed

A development planned for a former WestConnex dive site will now include more homes, and pedestrian links between Parramatta and Pyrmont Bridge roads.

  • Jessica McSweeney
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Plans by Wesley Mission to turn the vacant RJ Williams building at Glebe into affordable rental units have been abandoned.

Plan to turn inner-city vacant block into affordable housing scrapped

This Glebe unit block has sat empty and decaying for more than a decade, with plans for affordable housing. Now the charity owner is selling the site to the highest bidder.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Juanita Nielsen disappeared in 1975.

Juanita Nielsen: Sydney’s most enduring mystery

One day, she was there. The next day, she was gone. The Herald investigates the plot to silence the outspoken activist and the efforts to solve the crime.

An anti-Woolworths development demonstrator confronts a YIMBY heckler at a community rally in Elsternwick.

Housing towers on former ABC studio site approved after seven-year battle

The Woolworths proposal to build apartments up to 11 storeys above a new supermarket has been ticked off by the planning minister.

  • Rachel Eddie and Adam Carey
Sonja Boric, is helping her family member (a man in his late 60s) navigate a difficult legal process. She says that she knows the heartbreak of investing with Lion and her family member will likely have to return to work after losing his life savings.

Investors win court fight to wind up Lion Property Group as lawyers drop cash-strapped developer

A court has appointed liquidators to the group after it failed to provide its books and records for a promised audit and ran out of cash to pay its lawyers.

  • Sarah Danckert

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