The weekend clearance rate looks like a thermometer for the property market. It isn’t. The methodology guarantees the failures stay invisible — and once you understand the maths, you stop being able to read the Sunday headline with a straight face.
How construction costs reach house and apartment prices across the Northern Beaches, Lower North Shore and Upper North Shore — through three channels
Ten years of NSW Valuer General data on Manly, Mosman and Wahroonga — three suburbs that broadly stand for the three sub-regions we cover. The most prestigious postcode in our patch has not been the highest-growth one. Wahroonga has been the calmest. Manly has carried the biggest swings.
Buyers in Sydney are increasingly being prompted to ask their buyers agent how many properties they have bought in their specific suburb. It is the wrong question. The deeper one — whether the agent in front of you is running an advisory business or a transaction
business — gets a different answer.
There is no shortage of opinion about apartment defects in NSW. There is surprisingly little solid data. A clear read of what NSW defect surveys actually show, the four protection mechanisms that apply, and the documents that actually matter before you sign.
On 12th May 2026, Jim Chalmers handed down the biggest reset of property tax since 1985. Five reforms, four owner types, four different stories. Here is where you sit in the new rules — and what to actually do in the next eighteen months.
