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Mackenzie Scott is a property and general news reporter based in Brisbane. Prior to joining The Australian in 2018, she was the editorial coordinator at NewsMediaWorks, covering media and publishing, and editor at travel and lifestyle website Xplore Sydney.

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14/08/19 Simon and Emma Day at their Malvern East home with their kids Lucy (4) and Sam (2). Aaron Francis/The Australian

Market showing signs of recovery

If the property market is under pressure, the top end is usually the first to fall.

Mackenzie Scott

queenslandNation

Queensland Government Cabinet meeting at Logan TAFE campus - Deputy premier Jackie Trad, Logan Monday 5th August 2019 Picture AAP/David Clark

Trad faces $50k hit on house

Deputy Premier Jackie Trad could suffer a cash hit over her husband’s investment property.

Sarah Elks and Mackenzie Scott

Battle of the buyersProperty

08/08/19 Shazzi Stewart at her Coburg home that she will be listing her home in Spring to coincide with the end of the AFL season. She believes spring will be a good time for buyers and sellers as more stock becomes made available. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Prestige property returns

Buyers are “fighting it out” over a historically low number of homes up for auction.

Mackenzie Scott and SASCHA O’SULLIVAN

BrisbaneProperty

The Yeerongpilly Green masterplan planned for Brisbane's riverside. Picture: Supplied.

Brisbane gets riverside facelift

Brisbane’s riverside is set for a facelift, developers unveiling a $850 million urban regeneration master plan for Yeerongpilly.

Mackenzie Scott

House prices stabiliseProperty

For sale and open house signs are clustered in the front yard of a street corner home in Eugene, Oregon Sunday, March 18, 2007. Sales of previously owned homes in the U.S. unexpectedly rose 3.9 percent in February, the biggest monthly gain in almost three years, a sign the housing market is recovering even as lending standards tighten. Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg News.

‘This is not a blip’

Rises in property prices suggest the market has found a floor and may be heading into positive territory | How your city performed

Mackenzie Scott

Missing kidsNation

Police are urgently seeking public assistance to help locate four children who are believed to have driven a four-wheel-drive from Rockhampton to New South Wales today.

Police stop kids in Grafton

Three teens and a child have been stopped by police in Grafton in the four-wheel-drive they drove from Rockhampton.

Mackenzie Scott

Nation

Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia. Picture: Istock

WA shaken in strongest quake

The equal-largest earthquake recorded in Australia has rocked WA from the Kimberley to Perth.

Mackenzie Scott and Paige Taylor

CLIMATE CHANGE PROTESTNation

Pauline Hanson wants police to get tough on climate protesters

Hanson lashes CBD activists

Pauline Hanson demands police get tough on activists who cause chaos on the streets of Brisbane.

Mackenzie Scott and Richard Ferguson

down the agesNation

07/07/2019: Four generations in one room. 92 year old Huguette Setton surrounded by her family. Daughter Talya Pasmanik 68 (right) & her husband Joe 72 (back), Grand Kids- Len Bennett 43, Davina Bennett 38, Philip Setton 31, Michelle 40, Katherine 36, & Great Grand kids Mali 7, Poppy 4 & Tara 2. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

Why lifespans set to shrink

New forecasts on life expectancy cast doubt on whether we’ll continue to live longer lives.

Sean Parnell, Jamie Walker and Mackenzie Scott

PropertyProperty

05/7/2019: Cathy Larkins and Matt Smith, and son Zach Larkins, 18 with their dog Hurley, settled on their new home this week in Tarragindi, Brisbane. After looking for a few months in a relatively quite market, Ms Larkins was quick to make $1.2m purchase decision in less than a week . Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Market defies the winter blues

The housing market is showing signs of recovery — in what should be the quietest time of the year.

Mackenzie Scott and Lisa Allen

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