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Jan 25, 2025 | 
domain.com.au | Emily Power
How much for Australia’s greatest view? The realm of $14 million, for this impressive harbouside apartment, should do it. The residence in Sydney’s Lavender Bay has postcard views that will never be spoiled, and has been freshly listed by Atlas Lower North Shore’s Adrian Bridges and Daniel Chester. The Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and Luna Park are front and centre from the dres-circle position of 2/9-11 Waiwera Street.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
domain.com.au | Emily Power
A $61 million deal for three properties, sold to one family, underpins the unshakable allure of trophy homes in a prime coastal region of Victoria. The young family quietly bought the consecutive cliff-top Sorrento estates, over 18 months, with the intention to create a family compound, through James Redfern of Buxton Mornington Peninsula. The blocks flow down to the bay, with private beach access, shared jetty use and endless blue horizon.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
domain.com.au | Emily Power
Bellevue Hill reigns as Australia’s most expensive suburb, but movements in the top ten show fresh patterns of deep spending. The suburb retains top spot, even after a 3.3 per cent dip in the median house price compared to last year, when it was also number one. Bellevue Hill is the only suburb in Australia with a multimillion-dollar median that starts with a number eight. The top ten, according to Domain’s House Price Report (December) have a combined median of $55,669,000.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
domain.com.au | Emily Power
One of Victoria’s premier pieces of property has sold – sans house. An ocean-front block of vacant land on the Mornington Peninsula with a tennis court has transacted after launching on the market with a price guide of $7.5 million to $8.2 million. In the stratosphere of Australian real estate, the clifftop on the peninsula occupies rare air, alongside addresses in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
domain.com.au | Emily Power
Renters would be entitled to free parking at some of Sydney’s most popular beaches under a fresh state government plan, to match ratepayers who are not charged for the same privilege. The change would apply to tenants living in the Mosman and Northern Beaches council areas, which take in iconic coastal hotspots including Balmoral, The Spit, Manly and Curl Curl.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
domain.com.au | Emily Power
An entire ghost town is again for sale, and for the same price as a Sydney house. Lake Waitaki Village, a 14-hectare lakeside freehold with majestic mountain vistas, has been empty for about 36 years. The community at 567 Otematata-Kurow Road was constructed in the 1930’s as accommodation for workers on the local dam. However, when the dam’s operation flicked to automated in 1989, the workers moved away. On the lip of Lake Waitaki, it was left by behind by industrial progress.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
domain.com.au | Emily Power
Star couple Bec and Lleyton Hewitt are a step closer to handing over the keys to glam their Queensland oasis. Their magazine-worthy retreat has long been regarded as one of Australia’s most-wanted houses and a buyer agrees, signing the contract. The tennis great and actor settled on the architecturally-designed Burleigh Heads pad in late September 2021 for $4,305,000, and the glamour address, which they listed in spring, has been snapped up under confidential terms. The sale price is undisclosed.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
domain.com.au | Emily Power
By Emily PowerJanuary 22, 2025This extraordinary bunker is a residence that melds with one of the most inhospitable landscapes on the planet. The house, on the market in Joshua Tree, in southeastern California, is encased by two colossal hand-built walls. The listing describes the almost-invisible dwelling as an “intersection of art, architecture, and the natural environment”.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
domain.com.au | Emily Power
By Emily PowerJanuary 22, 2025Property dreams come in all guises. For some, it may be to have your own KFC. One is available to rent, with the Colonel’s flourish. In Christchurch, Dorset, you can have all the nuggets you desire for £40,000 (about $AU78,000). To own one outright costs many, many times that amount. The listing, handled by agency Ellis and Partners, explains that it has long- run as a popular chicken takeaway restaurant and the new lease is offered “long term”.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
domain.com.au | Emily Power
The cheapest suburb or town in the nation to buy a home in is so extraordinary, Hollywood has been known to come knocking. It’s far from glitzy, but that is what makes Coober Pedy so special. An outback opal mining town, about 900km north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway, Coober Pedy clocks in with Australia’s least expensive median house price. It holds that title by a long shot, with a median that is less than the price of a luxury car -$91,250.
