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From her Melbourne living room, Talika Thomas created SheShare – Australia’s first women’s only flatmate platform for all ages.

A man kept asking his flatmate on dates. Talika’s idea might fix the problem

Years of soaring property prices have meant the age of renters extend well beyond young adults and into new generations. But for women, it can come with additional hurdles.

  • Cassandra Morgan

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Dysart’s most famous building the University of Technology, Sydney Tower.

Architect much more than creator of brutalist UTS Tower

Michael Dysart was one of Australia’s most significant architects, designing everything from universities to hundreds of schools, and reshaping the project home market.

  • Tone Wheeler
The Bastas family owns the Toorak property Coonac, one of the country’s most expensive homes.

Where Australia’s richest people live and how much it costs to live there

Some of Australia’s wealthiest people have lived in the same homes, in some of the country’s richest areas, for several decades.

  • Wes Mountain
The three-storey block of flats. Can an old idea be new again?

To fix housing, we must try something radical. Here are three ideas to shift the dial

Australia already has more homes than households. It’s just that too many of our homes cannot house the people who need them.

  • Tone Wheeler
Senator Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce in Parliament House on Wednesday.

One Nation MPs caught in back-to-back ‘train wreck’ housing interviews

The inclusion of permanent residents in One Nation’s foreign home ownership policy needed clarification after a series of confused interviews on Thursday and Friday.

  • Nick Newling and Emily Kaine
The Zeait family live with three generations under one roof.

Nicole and Patrick bought their own home. Then they found something better

They bought a property and lodged plans to build, but the hurdle of COVID led them to come up with a new and better arrangement.

  • Shona Hendley
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Housing Minister Clare O’Neil and Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Secret RBA notes reveal harsh judgment of Labor’s housing policies

As Jim Chalmers fights back against claims Labor’s housing budget would not get more homes built, RBA documents reveal just what the Reserve Bank thought about Labor’s agenda.

  • Paul Sakkal
People could choose pre-fab parts of housing under the rollout nationwide of a scheme aimed at cutting construction costs.

The pick-and-mix home that could cut costs and get built faster

The time to build a new home has effectively doubled over the past 30 years. A $40 million “kit-of-parts” plan could turn it around.

  • Shane Wright
9 Colton Street, Highgate Hill.

‘A very long road’: Doctor’s call to buy multimillion-dollar Highgate Hill home

Real estate agents said the federal budget had led to more cautious buyers with tighter purse strings, but good properties in top locations were still transacting well.

  • Sarah Webb
Carmel Bell, 64, is renting her house with no hope of owning.

‘Living in a caravan park’: Not all Baby Boomers are retiring rich

The federal budget’s focus on shifting wealth to younger generations has left some Baby Boomers without much hope of a comfortable retirement.

  • Caroline Zielinski