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The 2025 campaign will hide policy lethargy behind personal animosity.

A campaign of sound and fury pauses for a moment of constructive policy competition

It’s taken too long for parties to take the housing shortage seriously. Today’s campaign launches offer some hope that might be about to change.

  • Peter Hartcher

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Tootgarook offers a lower median house price than Sorrento.

The beach town 15 minutes from Sorrento but $1 million cheaper

It may be lesser known than its coastal co-stars, but the capital growth over the past five years suggests buyers are catching on.

  • Lisa Marie Corso
Suzie Batten has an outdoor hot tub and is getting a sauna. She says the hot tub helps her recover from intense exercise, sleep better and boosts her wellbeing.

You’re hot then you’re cold: Australians embrace home saunas, plunge pools

Smaller backyards, social media trends and Australians’ obsession with wellness have led many households to install steam rooms, saunas and ice baths.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
‘It has truly been a beautiful place to be,’ Canning says of the estate.

How a creative couple turned a rambly old house into a country garden dream

The garden designer and the still life artist looked far and wide, but found a tightly held community and saw it was something special.

The interior of the Brunswick house that sold on Saturday.

Family’s 115-year hold on Brunswick home ends through $1 million auction

Three brothers bought the boarded-up Edwardian at auction on Saturday. They plan to develop it, but keep its heritage facade.

  • Abbir Dib
Smaller homes near the train line sell for more modest sums than Toorak’s grand mansions.

Where to find the cheapest streets in Melbourne’s most expensive suburbs

At the top end of Melbourne’s real estate, price points can vary by millions of dollars within the same postcode.

  • Elizabeth Redman
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Unlike banks and casinos, real estate agents don’t have to do due diligence checks on customers or report suspicious transactions.

Organised crime and armoured cars of cash: The dirty money pushing up Australian house prices

They looked like any other couple at the auction. But the Russians had a secret.

  • Sherryn Groch
7 Dunbar Street, Watsons Bay NSW.

Eleven of the best homes for sale in NSW right now

From Watsons Bay to Wamberal here are some of the best homes for sale in NSW right now.

  • Pauline Morrissey
Building defects across Sydney.

Search for buildings with defect notices across Sydney

Building defects cost homeowners north of $700m a year. These are the rectification orders issued in the past four years.

Demand for properties in Jindabyne spiked during the pandemic as people holidayed at home.

‘There’s only one’: The unexpected holiday idyll that boomed

Like the coast, it became a more popular place to live all year round since the pandemic hit due to high amenities and natural beauty.

  • Alice Uribe

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