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The share of home lending has reversed in favour of investors over the past five years

How property investors piled into Australia’s housing market

The share of home lending has reversed in favour of investors over the past five years, but experts say there may be more first home buyers through 2026.

  • Alice Uribe

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Ricky Banga, 33, a real estate photographer, came to Australia in 2011 as a student to join his older brother. They ended up buying a house together in Craigieburn in 2015 (with help from Ricky’s wife, Sherry) and plan to stay there for a while.

What the Great Australian Dream looks like today

As house prices rise, young people are rethinking home ownership, and some are finding creative new ways to live.

  • Caroline Zielinski and Alice Uribe
9 & 11 Baden Street, Coogee NSW 2034

Developer beats nine others for $15m block of Coogee beach units

The Art Deco building attracted 10 registered parties at auction for what the agent described as a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity.

  • Carmen Forward
Neil Robertson purchased his first home in Fitzroy for $7500 in 1972.

What was the Great Australian Dream?

Work hard, buy a home, maybe an investment property down the track: the rational decisions of the past have given way to a different future.

  • Caroline Zielinski and Alice Uribe
219 Bourke Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010

‘Loved for years’: Two brothers sell inner-city family home for $2.7 million

A young couple, with parental bidding help, won the keys to the terrace with rooftop garden. It was on the market for the first time in about three decades.

  • Robyn Willis
Manly Beach

Sydney’s best beach and how much it costs to live there

Sydneysiders are spoilt for choice when it comes to beaches, but visitors to the harbour city keep coming back to one.

  • Alice Uribe
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Sydney’s entry-level prices have risen.

‘Shocking’: The pocket of Sydney that’s now Millionaire’s Row

After prices rose 64 per cent in five years, mortgage costs blew out and potential buyers are thinking about compromises.

  • Dan F Stapleton
Sellers are more likely to make money now than at any time in the past 20 years.

How much you need to earn to buy a house now

For the average sole wage earner, the dream of buying a median-priced house is “basically dead and buried”, experts warn.

  • Dan F Stapleton
43 Walker Street, Canada Bay NSW 2046

Inner west buyer pays $5.5m for turnkey home, breaking suburb record

Four parties competed for a five-bedroom home with high ceilings and a swimming pool after the owner had a change of heart.

  • Carmen Forward
China’s soft rock queen Tian Zhen has listed her Point Piper apartment for sale with a price guide of $15.5 million.

China’s ‘Tina Turner’ hopes to fetch $15.5m for Point Piper pad

Tian Zhen, China’s queen of soft rock who cites the late Tina Turner as her musical inspiration, bought the pad to focus on her health in 2016.

  • Kristy Johnson