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2 days ago | domain.com.au | Gitika Garg

By Gitika GargMay 14, 2025Brett Robinson, founder and creative director of Melbourne-based landscape architecture studio Acre, is behind some of the city’s most lush residential and commercial garden oases. His approach is pared-back and never over-designed, instead letting timeless, natural materials do the talking. Here, he chats about bringing back old-school water features, designing outdoor spaces for dogs and creating apartment gardens. HOW DO YOU DEFINE GOOD DESIGN?

3 days ago | domain.com.au | Elizabeth Redman

By Elizabeth RedmanMay 13, 2025Property values have edged below their peaks recently, but new figures lay bare how the pullback pales in comparison to their long-term growth. Sydney home values are 1.1 per cent below their recent peak, figures from Cotality (formerly known as CoreLogic) show, but are 61.6 per cent higher than a decade ago, the research house’s Home Value Index for April shows.

3 days ago | domain.com.au | Kate Kachor

A luxury three-level home with a massive 12-metre-wide outdoor entertainment area is on the market in Queensland. The al fresco area at 8 Gresham Street in East Brisbane impressively stretches the full width of the property. It is so vast it has enough room for a full outdoor kitchen, two wine fridges and is shaded by a timber-clad pitched roof. As a comparison, its size is almost the length of a city bus.

3 days ago | domain.com.au | Kate Kachor

By Kate KachorMay 13, 2025A billionaire couple believe they have found a potential solution to end a years-long dispute over plans to add a helipad to their waterfront Auckland home. Ali Williams, a former All Black rugby union star, and Anna Mowbray, the billionaire co-founder of toy manufacturer Zuru, first proposed to build a helicopter landing and takeoff pad at their coastal property in the exclusive suburb, Westmere, in 2021.

3 days ago | domain.com.au | Kate Kachor

By Kate KachorMay 13, 2025A homeowner in Victoria has been left perplexed after being told their backyard may need to be dug up to locate a “mystery” manhole. The owner, who lives in the northern Melbourne region of Darebin, claims Yarra Valley Water (YVW) wants to investigate the existence of the maintenance spot and raise it. “We live in a townhouse and there’s a sewer easement that runs behind our property and our neighbours’ — pretty standard setup,” they wrote in a post to Reddit.