Real Estate and Property Market News

It seems not even Sydney’s leading venture capitalists like Blackbird’s Rick Baker are immune to the lure of Sydney’s high-end housing market.

It was a big week for high-end sellers, from the $200 million digs of “Aussie” John Symond to the Strathfield home of fellow rich lister Tony Tartak.

The conventional wisdom is to start with a modest apartment and buy a house later, but financing the move has never been so challenging.

An investor keen to capitalise on Sydney’s soaring rents beat nine other parties for the tidy apartment close to cafes.

The cost of buying a house is nearly double that of a unit, making it much harder than a generation ago to move on from a first home.

The unliveable ”shell” in one of Sydney’s most high-end suburbs had plenty of admirers when it went under the hammer, despite needing a total reno.

A large cafe space on Barton’s Brisbane Avenue has just hit the market.

No home has ever sold for more than $1 million in this fishing village, where a new luxury level has been set by the sale of stylish timber property.

A panic room boom is spreading in the international property market but, in Australia, they are much less common – making this Queensland listing incredibly special.