Auctions
Young family pays $1.41 million for a Hurstville Grove townhouse
A Balmain investor has offloaded a three-bedroom townhouse in Sydney’s south to a young family who bought it at Saturday’s auction for $1.41 million.
- Carmen Forward
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Historic Clayfield home defies auction slump with $4.55 million sale
A family of six outbid a 26-year-old to claim the last unrenovated house in one of Brisbane’s most tightly held streets.
- Sarah Webb
Unrenovated semi in popular heritage suburb sells for $1.86 million
The auction was over in minutes as two parties with very different strategies vied for the keys to a property that the auctioneer said would normally attract a higher price.
- Robyn Willis
State government looks to offload former Supreme Court building in $25m sale
The Allan government will be hoping for a better result than the last time the building was on the market in the early 1990s.
- Nicole Lindsay
Three-bedroom lower north shore home sells for $2.39 million
Three young upsizers battled it out at Saturday’s auction to buy a classic redbrick house in Lane Cove, with the buyer going $40,000 above reserve to secure the keys.
- Carmen Forward
Brisbane sales slumping but ‘good vibe’ home nets $1.3 million
The sale in the outer suburb came on one of the city’s weakest auction weekends on record.
- Sarah Webb
Know your ‘walk away price’: How to make the most of a weak auction market
Property prices are falling and homes are passing in at auction, but buyers who aren’t ready to capitalise risk missing out.
- Wes Mountain
‘A bit nuts’: Families vie for $3.3m Balmain home, defying weak market
The auction date was brought forward from a five-week campaign to just 16 days due to unexpected interest in the freestanding home.
- Carmen Forward
Lions great’s former home sells for millions in fierce inner-city auction
The former captain and Brownlow medallist sold the home for $2.5 million, and it has been sold again for almost double that.
- Sarah Webb
First home buyers pay $1m for villa as market reality sinks in for vendors
Low opening bids and passed-in properties are becoming the norm in a “reasonably tough” market as a triumvirate of factors shifts power in favour of buyers.
- Robyn Willis