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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.
- by Elizabeth Redman
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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.
- by Kristy Johnson
Moving from a Sydney unit to a house gets five times harder in a generation
With Sydney’s median house price almost double that of the typical unit in the city, the difference between the two property types has turned into a chasm.
- by Kristy Johnson
Moving from a Melbourne unit to a house gets six times harder in a generation
Melbourne house prices may have softened, but the price gap between buying a unit and a house has more than doubled in a decade, making it even hard for upsizers.
- by Alexandra Middleton
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.
- by Sarah Webb
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.
- by Jim Malo
‘Pull out all the stops’: WA home completions already behind national housing goals
Fresh data shows WA is already hundreds of homes behind just three months into the 1.2 million homes by 2029 national housing target.
- by Sarah Brookes
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.
- by Tawar Razaghi
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.
- by Sue Williams
How Madison, 23, and Isabelle, 19, just bought a house
The sisters were living with their parents and dreaming of buying their own homes, but didn’t think it would be possible so soon.
- by Alexandra Middleton
How the great swimming pool boom just made an even bigger splash
Household spending on swimming pool sales and services rose 13 per cent over the year to December, research shows.
- by Elizabeth Redman
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