Queensland residential property
‘Buyers aren’t mucking around’: Cottage sets price record at lightning-fast auction
In one of 145 scheduled auctions across Brisbane over the past week, a pint-sized Greenslopes postwar house stuns the sellers and auctioneer.
- Sarah Webb
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The type of housing cost that just soared 75 per cent in five years
Economists warn it could take considerable time before costs fall enough to improve affordability for average home buyers.
- Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
Property market records one of the quickest downturns ever
It compares to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the impact of a 2015 ruling that put limits on investor finance.
- Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
Sold for millions: One of West End’s last untouched Queenslanders
Among the Brisbane homes auctioned at the weekend was the three-bedroom home, which took six months to get market ready, with decades of belongings cleared out.
- Sarah Webb
The houses where Australia’s billionaires live, and how much they cost
At the absolute top end of the property market, buyers need business success or family wealth, or a bit of both.
- Elizabeth Redman
Mediterranean-style masterpiece built in six months sells for $3.91m
Among the incredible homes at auction in Brisbane at the weekend, the hammer came down on this Camp Hill house in under 10 minutes.
- Sarah Webb
‘House of the Year’ with swim-up bar, golf simulator snapped up for cool $14m
A Gold Coast trophy home has smashed the Mermaid Waters record, after a local buyer – who first saw the house 24 hours earlier – paid millions.
- Sarah Webb
The locations where buying a property is now ‘impossibly unaffordable’
New research blames restrictive land use policies for unaffordable housing, while more than 30 per cent of homes now cost $1 million or more.
- Alice Uribe and Jim Malo
Half a million dollars in two years: Vendors make tidy profit from Hawthorne home
Meanwhile, in Camp Hill the real estate agent didn’t bother having the power turned on when selling a house on a rare 809-square-metre block.
- Sarah Webb
How home owners could save $143 a month – and the reasons not to
More home owners are worried about paying off a home loan into retirement, but experts suggest people think long and hard about the options.
- Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
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