Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is a senior property writer for The Australian’s Business Review section. He has been a journalist since the early 1980s in Melbourne and Sydney, and specialises in reporting on the residential property market. Jonathan also writes for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph.

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The five-bedroom, five-bathroom 8 St Ninians Court house in Brighton comes with $9.10m to $10m price guidance through Kay & Burton Bayside agent Alex Schiavo.

Leibovich luxury a nice catch for $10m

The luxury Brighton residential investment property of Gabby Leibovich, the co-founder of Catch, has been listed for sale with a guidance of $9.10 to $10m.

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Set on the Frankston-Flinders Road, some 90 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD, the five bedroom, five bathroom home had been listed with $14m hopes.

Peninsula pile fetches $11.25m

Expatriate fintech start-up entrepreneur Michael Giles has spent $11.25m on a four-hectare luxury estate at Merricks on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula.

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The nation’s top trophy home sale on the weekend was $7.05m in Sydney’s inner west at Drummoyne.

Signs of a recovery in big city property markets

Weekend auctions resumed after the Easter break, with continued market strength. Sometimes the first pause of the annual sales calendar prompts a negative rethink, but not this year.

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The property at 371 Golden Vale Road, Sutton Forest, NSW

Anti-coal campaigners have a farm sale win

The Sutton Forest, NSW, farm of anti-coal Southern Highlands protest leader Peter Martin and wife Kim has been sold.

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Go wild about zoo boss’s pad

The home of former Taronga Zoo chief Guy Cooper and wife Jeanette is on the market, and they’re seeking up to $10.4m.

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Entrepreneurs splash the cash for Sunshine Coast lifestyle

A Sunshine Coast getaway remains a priority for entrepreneurial buyers as Maxine Horne pays top dollar for a beachfront block and Colonial Brewing Co’s boss snaps up a nearby pad.

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JC Competing Bids - 16 Percy St, Balwyn.

Over the odds or on the money?

A Chinese family returning to Australia after the interruption of the pandemic has paid well over the guidance price for a Melbourne home.

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2 Cliffbrook Parade, Clovelly. Radio Royalty Jackie O Henderson spends big at an ocean-front home auction in Clovelly, with the radio star making the winning bid of over $13m! 11th March

Jackie ‘O’ spends over $13m for Clovelly oceanfront home

Radio queen Jackie ‘O’ Henderson has splurged $13.25m on a three-storey Clovelly oceanfront home at a packed auction which turned out to be Sydney’s top sale for the weekend.

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JC Competing Bids - 45 National Circuit, Forrest

Canberra clearance rate weakest of the capitals

Canberra’s auction clearance rate now ranks as the weakest of the capital city markets with its weekend success rate slipping to 52 per cent from 107 offerings.

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The property at 10 Wentworth Street, Dover Heights

Cautious buyers wait to pounce after hammer

Numerous trophy home listings found buyers soon after their weekend auctions, suggesting cautious underlying demand across Sydney’s eastern suburbs from stock-starved buyers.

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