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Alice Uribe

Alice Uribe

Alice Uribe is the deputy property editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Erin Howell at her new home.

Sydney suburbs where unloved homes are getting more expensive

Of the 2700-plus Sydney properties passed in at auction over the past six months, more than half were re-advertised with a higher price guide.

  • Alice Uribe

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Thomas Pozzer has been anticipating a rate rise and planning on how to make sure it has the least impact on his finances.

The smart way home borrowers are dealing with higher interest rates

The rate rise will add about $100 a month to a $600,000 mortgage, but home owners have a strategy to get ahead.

  • Wes Mountain and Alice Uribe
The share of home lending has reversed in favour of investors over the past five years

How property investors piled into Australia’s housing market

The share of home lending has reversed in favour of investors over the past five years, but experts say there may be more first home buyers through 2026.

  • Alice Uribe
Ricky Banga, 33, a real estate photographer, came to Australia in 2011 as a student to join his older brother. They ended up buying a house together in Craigieburn in 2015 (with help from Ricky’s wife, Sherry) and plan to stay there for a while.

What the Great Australian Dream looks like today

As house prices rise, young people are rethinking home ownership, and some are finding creative new ways to live.

  • Caroline Zielinski and Alice Uribe
Neil Robertson purchased his first home in Fitzroy for $7500 in 1972.

What was the Great Australian Dream?

Work hard, buy a home, maybe an investment property down the track: the rational decisions of the past have given way to a different future.

  • Caroline Zielinski and Alice Uribe
Manly Beach

Sydney’s best beach and how much it costs to live there

Sydneysiders are spoilt for choice when it comes to beaches, but visitors to the harbour city keep coming back to one.

  • Alice Uribe
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‘Conscious decision’: How Peta created a screen-free space for her family

To nix binge-watching and endless scrolling, and encourage real-world connection, there is demand for screen-free spaces in homes.

  • Alice Uribe
Mariette Balkejian and her siblings listed her mother’s home for sale with a reserve. They were happy with the eventual sale price.

The rarely used strategy that helped Mariette sell her mother’s home

In a pleasant surprise, the property achieved an unexpectedly strong price and the whole front yard was full of people at auction.

  • Alice Uribe
The Wards did their sums and decided to fix their rate.

The suburbs where home values fell most last time rates rose

Experts warn that households have become more sensitive to interest rate rises than in the past due to elevated levels of household debt.

  • Alice Uribe and Elizabeth Redman
Jeremy Zivin and his partner Carla Zaidenberg had been planning for Tuesday’s rate rise.

The Melbourne suburbs most affected by higher interest rates

Experts warn households have become more sensitive to interest rate rises, due to higher levels of debt.

  • Elizabeth Redman and Alice Uribe