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The weatherboard and stained-glass home had five bedrooms and a separate bungalow.

Coburg family home passes in at auction after attracting only one bidder

The family home came with two storeys, five bedrooms and a separate bungalow, but did not sell under the hammer.

  • Wes Mountain

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The bulk of Glebe Island’s working port facilities will be scrapped for high-density housing around the future Bays West metro station.

This new waterfront suburb will reshape Sydney, but who will get to live there?

If we are sacrificing a working harbour to build this shiny new precinct, we cannot sacrifice working Sydneysiders too.

  • Estelle Grech
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
Architect Madeleine Blanchfield says living in a terrace house has much to recommend it, if it’s well oriented.

This housing style was once destined for the wrecking ball. Now it is winning new fans

Derided in parts of Sydney as a form of slum housing, this familiar residential style is now touted as a supply solution.

  • Robyn Willis
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The zombie debate about negative gearing is back. What’s at stake?

Negative gearing is back on the agenda. Labor says it’s just looking at possible policy. The Greens are squeezing the government for big changes. Here’s what it all means.

  • Millie Muroi
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Brisbane property prices have soared.

How Brisbane just leapfrogged Sydney for property pain

It’s a gut punch to first home buyer hopefuls after property prices soared over the past five years. Is there any relief?

  • Sarah Webb
Entry-level prices for Melbourne units are some of the most affordable in the country.

The type of Melbourne property that’s cheaper than five years ago

Making a purchase a decade ago was a good way to get onto the property ladder, but the path is less straightforward today, experts say.

  • Caroline Zielinski
Sydney’s entry-level prices have risen.

‘Shocking’: The pocket of Sydney that’s now Millionaire’s Row

After prices rose 64 per cent in five years, mortgage costs blew out and potential buyers are thinking about compromises.

  • Dan F Stapleton
Vincent Woodgate helped resolve issues in his apartment building.

Vincent’s unit block was riddled with problems. He found a clever fix

The Sydney unit owner drew up a program to fix leaks and replace failing awnings and combustible cladding, and he’s far from alone.

  • Sue Williams