real estate (Page 58)

Freemans Bay villa

Rundown Freemans Bay villa sold to former local boy, for $1.16m

The end of the property boom: Is the worst still to come?

Buyer pays $900k over reserve for unit

WATCH: National Housing Market Update | March 2019

INTERNATIONAL: China Has 58% of World’s Real Estate Billionaires, Leaving U.S. Far Behind

Real Estate Billionaires

INTERNATIONAL: China Has 58% of World’s Real Estate Billionaires, Leaving U.S. Far Behind

Caltex chairman Steve Gregg trades in Point Piper for Double Bay

First-home buyers fight it out at Melbourne auctions

Celebrity couple’s reno a popular dish

Boom time for Qld house prices, analyst predicts

hotel

Consent for 380-room hotel

Baby Boomer

Get set for Baby Boomer property sell-off

Wellington

Wellington house sales held up by insurance

Te Puke tenants

Leak in rental ‘like a waterfall’

Current downturn one of the biggest in history, says CoreLogic

Spaceship-like house in northern NSW to go to auction in world first cryto exchange

real estate agent

Did my real estate agent rip me off?

Bankrupted builder

Bankrupted builder pleads guilty to charges involving $300K in unpaid tax deductions

Bella Vista homes

Bella Vista homes cut in half

Real estate sentiment hits 46-year low

Swimwear moguls Craig Ellis and Erin Deering change their minds on $5m Bondi pad

British agency Fine & Country have landed in Perth with a new office

Which suburbs are Adelaide’s strongest price performers?

Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke sells long-term Northbridge home

new housing standards

Real estate agents fear effects of insurance difficulties in capital

tennis stadium

$5.5m approved for tennis stadium

real estate agent

Not a great time to be a real estate agent

WATCH: Lemon Houses

KiwiBuild

Home no-one wanted in KiwiBuild

WATCH: Cashed Up Chinese Aussie Spending Spree

Converted Birchgrove boatshed with guide of $7m to $7.7m proves popular with buyers

A third man has been charged with attempted murder over the brutal shooting of a Sydney real estate agent

Historic Kangaroo Island home that hosted Australia’s rich and famous hits market for $5m+

house hunting

INTERNATIONAL: Wells Fargo patents house hunting with an autonomous car

International RE/MAX Convention in Las Vegas puts Aussies on the map

residential properties

February a lean month for real estate agents, new data shows

social living experiment

Architect friends talk about their ‘social living experiment’ 10 years on

NEW ZEALAND: House sales plummet 18% in Auckland

Number of houses sold across NZ falls by 9.5% in February, says REINZ

property auctions

Want free stuff? Go to an auction

Brisbane record house sale under the hammer heralds new era for auctions

hotel sale prices

Secret Wellington and Auckland hotel sale prices revealed in new report

national park land

New national park land

IAG Insurance

IAG turning down new property insurance in Wellington region

$1.7m ‘squatter’ slams dead man’s family

meth house

Meth house sale ‘as is, where is’

Auckland

Auckland remains a patchy market

Instagram

INTERNATIONAL: 5 Luxury Real Estate Brokers Who Are Killing It On Instagram

American Chopper

CELEBRITY: Why Won’t Anyone Buy ‘American Chopper’ Star Paul Teutul’s Compound?

Public land

Public land turned private

interest rates

Rate cuts won’t fire up housing, says JP Morgan

Adelaide flies under the radar as one of our strongest capital city property markets

What the median house price in each of Australia’s capital cities gets you around the world

Uber driver

A real estate agent who indecently assaulted a boy while working as an Uber driver has lost his battle against deportation to India.

Auction

Who tripped the housing boom?

remote bach

Most remote bach is ‘calling’

Ron Sang

Ron Sang-designed house and NZ contemporary art collection for sale

WATCH: Sydney Housing Market Update | March 2019

WATCH: Australian Housing Market & Economy – March Update

Lenders cut rates and boost terms to test property bounce

Man charged over alleged multi-million-dollar bogus property investment scheme

Female agents target glass ceiling

Australian charities set to be $3.3 million richer after Greenwich deceased estate sells

landlords

Landlord’s call to scare tenants into not voting for Labour

real estate agent

Cash-strapped agent censured

Cottage sold for millions just to be destroyed

container house

‘Life Box’ container house sold at auction, raising money for cancer charity

Property mogul

INTERNATIONAL: Property mogul Harry Macklowe recently wed his long-term mistress — and didn’t miss the chance to rub it in his ex-wife’s face.

NAR

INTERNATIONAL: NAR campaign distinguishes Realtors from other real estate agents

Property market downturn could have an upside for first-home buyers

Reserve Bank

Agents see little evidence of Phillip Lowe’s property market comeback

Chinese buyers

Chinese Buyers Helped Boost Australian Home Prices. Now They’re Leaving

Superestate uses super contributions to invest in the property market

sex offender

Property manager told ‘predatory’ sex offender wasn’t a risk to anyone

corelogic

There’s still some heat left in the NZ property market, but not in Auckland

‘We would never say we do Australian property alone’: Domain hits out at REA in campaign

Sydney is still number one

Tenancy Tribunal

Tenants stop landlords building garage

nasty house

‘Humiliated’ in the ‘nasty house’

Household Debt

NZ’s household debt levels are reaching terrifying heights

Phoenix company for Arrow project

Industry body calls for improvement to real estate agent training

In race for global city status, Sydney resting on natural laurels, Brisbane fast catching up

Gretel Packer’s $22m penthouse bid

Wallace Development

Here come the houses

apartments

Wynyard Quarter: Multi-million dollar apartments launched

Five Australian cities in top 50 worldwide for residential price growth: Knight Frank

Backlog of unsold homes reaches decade high

Retirees marooned as banks retreat on reverse mortgages

WATCH: Why falling prices aren’t making homes more affordable

Australia’s economy has just slid into a recession on a per-capita basis

Australia’s economy

Australia’s economy has just slid into a recession on a per-capita basis

Brisbane’s most expensive homes: The top properties of 2018

Queenstown development

Buyers might get a bargain at Queenstown development

Reserve Bank says population growth, slow building to blame for property boom and bust

Billionaire developer’s ultimatum to government

Trade Me website

Trade Me: More opportunity to poach print advertising

quake-prone buildings

Concern over quake-prone buildings

Melbourne market slowdown hits vendors, spreads to government

What the median house price gets you in each Australian capital city

CoreLogic

Homeowners pocket median resale profit of $195K each last quarter: a 20 year high.

Alexandra Park Village

Apartment buyers in limbo

Twitter

Property TWEETS of the week (March 5, 2019)

Court told former cop shot in Point Cook is still on life support

‘Train smash for the auction system’

Controversial advert helps sell Sydney land in three days

Ebert

Ebert subbies miss out on money

Piha

Most-viewed house on Trade Me

Jennifer Lopez

CELEBRITY: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez buy Jeremy Piven’s Malibu pad

CELEBRITY: Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch relisted with almost $100 million discount

Cambridge

Cambridge dairy farmer fined record $131,840 for effluent discharges

Nobilo

Waimarie property still listed while Nobilo seeks to refinance

churches for sale

8 former churches for sale

apartments

Application lodged to transform Lower Hutt’s Avalon Tower into apartments

meth

Tenant to pay $4300 for meth contamination

Property downturn is worse than it looks

The winners from Australia’s property market slump

WATCH: Australian real estate market shows mixed signs

Stand-offs between Melbourne buyers and sellers

Auckland Property

Auckland: A buyer’s market

Sydney real estate struggling to cope with city’s property slump

“Ugliest” house in best street

Family could turn $331K into $8.8m

Billionaire

The fence the billionaire built

Property price downturn extending beyond Sydney and Melbourne

Real Estate Agents

Glamour of real estate wheeling and dealing fades, disenchanted agents on job hunt