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Household spending on pool sales and services increased in the past year as Australians are keen to swim over hot summers.

Budget ways to install a pool to cool down this summer

Pool sales and services increased in the past year as households are keen to swim in their backyards. But there are ways to keep costs down in this economy.

  • Caroline Zielinski

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Sellers in Melbourne’s prestige property market are spending top dollar to stand out from the crowd,

How Melburnians are paying up to $45,000 to style their homes for sale

With more homes for sale and buyers taking longer to make up their minds, sellers are spending top dollar to stand out from the crowd in a bid to get deals done.

  • Elizabeth Redman
Vendors of Sydney’s prestige homes are paying big bucks for property styling.

The Sydneysiders paying up to $75,000 to style their homes for sale

Vendors of high-end homes see the financial return in property styling and are sparing no expense in extended sales campaigns to stand out in the market.

  • Kristy Johnson
14 properties for sale in NSW.

The 14 best homes for sale in NSW

Looking for your next home within NSW? We’ve got you covered.

  • Pauline Morrissey and Lou Sweeney
A lack of meaningful reform on addressing housing affordability keeps the nation’s business leaders up at night.

How bad is Sydney’s housing crisis? It’s an early sign of economic decline

Affordability isn’t just about young people staying at home longer than they might want to. It’s an alert for a brewing catastrophe.

  • Robert Pradolin
Brunswick Heads has long been tipped as the next Byron Bay.

The Byron Bay-adjacent towns that home owners never leave

Less than 80 properties sold in these sought-after postcodes that are more about lifestyle and community than their more popular celebrity-packed neighbour.

  • Sarah Webb
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First home buyers can access the federal government’s Help to Buy shared equity scheme and the low-deposit First Home Guarantee to help purchase a property.

How a tax you rarely pay is slowing the property market

Economists say the tax raises the barrier to entry for first home buyers who are trying to get into the market and discourages empty nesters from downsizing.

  • Jim Malo
House listings have grown and prices are starting to fall.

How housing went from being a sellers’ market to a buyers’ market

The tight housing market supply that was responsible for two years of significant gains in national house prices is turning on its head.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Auction crowd along with auctioneer at a house auction in Albert Park

How higher interest rates turned housing into a ‘luxury good’

Higher interest rates in a normal property cycle would cause prices to fall as buyers have less borrowing power. But that was negated by several factors, which distorted the market in 2024.

  • Tawar Razaghi
Resident John Patmore who has lived in his Paddington boarding house apartment for 17 years.

John will be evicted from his ‘forever home’. He has nowhere to go

He is one of 32 battlers in the Paddington boarding houses that will have locks changed and power cut on February 1 before redevelopment into luxury houses.

  • Sue Williams

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