Property markets, housing, and real estate
The NSW government will transform Glebe Island into a new 8,500-home suburb, but with just 10% affordable housing and entry prices around $2 million, critics say it risks becoming a wealthy enclave.
Aisha Khoury 
Australia's housing affordability crisis is forcing a generational rethink, as data reveals the dream of home ownership is becoming structurally unattainable for millions.
Priya Narayanan 
Melbourne's median dwelling price now sits more than $600,000 below Sydney's, a gap that property analysts say hasn't been this wide in a quarter century.
Riley Fitzgerald 
Two families traded 43 bids to claim a century-old New Farm cottage for $3.04 million, smashing the street record and putting Brisbane's runaway market back in the spotlight.
Andrew Marsh 
A Coogee Art Deco block sold for $15m against a $9.5m guide, but economists warn that Sydney's clearance rates are softening as rate hike impacts bite.
Darren Ong 
A proposal to tunnel beneath Stanley Street in Woolloongabba could reshape the suburb with 2,500 homes and a vast new urban park before Brisbane hosts the 2032 Olympics.
Megan Torres 
Australia's love affair with home ownership stretches back 170 years. Now, economists and historians say the policy settings that once made it possible are the very ones tearing it apart.
James Callahan 
A Frankston toddler battling brain cancer was hospitalised with sepsis after her home was found to have moisture levels 29 times above safe limits. Now her family faces the rental market with no income.
Megan Torres 
Parramatta has grown into Sydney's second CBD, but a fierce planning debate is now underway over whether its skyline should be shaped by offices or apartments.
Sophia Vargas 
Clearing a $500,000 mortgage in five years is achievable for some Australians, but it demands sacrifice, discipline, and a clear-eyed view of the risks.
Darren Ong 
A brand-new five-bedroom mansion on Marine Parade in Byron Bay has been listed with a $75 million price guide, potentially doubling the region's existing house price record.
Sophia Vargas 
A Flemington California bungalow sold for $1,526,000 at auction, more than $126,000 above reserve, while a Fitzroy North townhouse passed in below its asking price.
Darren Ong 
A renovated Hornsby Heights home sold for $2.13 million at auction, with a Queensland family beating out four other bidders to secure the keys.
Andrew Marsh 
Economist Gary Stevenson says building more homes won't fix WA's housing crisis without addressing wealth inequality at its root.
Andrew Marsh 
Mitcham Tennis Club, founded 94 years ago, faces demolition under a master plan to expand facilities at a major Melbourne eastern suburbs sports precinct.
Megan Torres 
Lewis Ehrlich, honorary dentist to the Matildas, has listed his South Coogee clifftop mansion with a $15m price guide, one of several prestige Sydney listings this week.
Patrick Donnelly 
Townhouses and terraces are emerging as a commercially viable and politically palatable solution to Melbourne's housing shortage, experts say.
Darren Ong 
A Carlton couple tackled the age-old challenge of sharing a home with teenagers by building a deliberate 'mess hall' into their terrace renovation.
Mitchell Tan 
A historic former bread factory in Fortitude Valley, over 100 years old, is earmarked for a 17-storey residential tower.
Darren Ong 
Sydney real estate agent Deepak Bangarh, ranked third in Australia by an industry award, has been suspended, with supporters calling him a victim of jealousy.
Darren Ong