Renee Licata and the site of the Middleton Grange development.

The former soccer star,the $68m debt and a road to nowhere

Sydney developer Rene Licata has long held visions for a grand town centre in the city’s west. A decade on,it’s just a few roads,footpaths and street lights.

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The theme of the 2025 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was “free to be me”.

Anthony Albanese joins revellers at the 2025 Sydney Mardi Gras as election looms

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made a surprise return to Mardi Gras on Saturday night,marching down Oxford Street in front of tens of thousands of spectators.

  • Megan Gorrey,Nick Newling andLucy Macken
The Fabulous Wonder Mama at the Sydney Mardi Gras press conference at The Beresford in Surry Hills,NSW. February 28,2025.

Sydney Mardi Gras 2025 as it happened:Thousands line Oxford Street to celebrate city’s LGBTQ community

Follow our live coverage as 10,000 marchers make their way down a crowd-lined Oxford Street for the 47th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.

  • Megan Gorrey,Nick Newling andLucy Macken
Phillip Dong Fang Lee and the property once touted to be national park,which is now being soldd off in lots.

This waterfront property was once offered as national park. Now it’s set to be carved up and sold off

Billionaire high-roller Phillip Dong Fang Lee’s family bushland retreat is best known for a slew of environmental protection breaches,but he’s now plotting a sell-off of the property.

  • Lucy Macken
The sale of the Elaine estate in Point Piper was this year’s highest residential sale at $130 million.

Revealed:Sydney’s top 20 luxury property sales of 2024

Economic headwinds? Not this high up the property price chain. Buyers splashed almost $1 billion on the 20 most expensive homes of the year.

  • Lucy Macken
The estate of Lady (Mary) Fairfax sold Fairwater for $100 million in 2018 to Mike Cannon-Brookes.

How Sydney’s property market was transformed in my 12 years of Title Deeds

Lucy Macken looks back on the best houses,biggest buyers and bumper stories as she finishes her stint covering prestige property.

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The Bayview luxury acreage was initially hoped to sell for $20 million before market revisions saw it sold for $9.8 million.

Mindfulness teacher who wanted $20m for Bayview estate sells for $9.8m

2024 is no time for high hopes,but if anyone can take a philosophical approach to the result it should be Paul von Bergen.

  • Lucy Macken
The Watsons Bay waterfront home of Low Gee Soon has been discounted by more than $10 million.

The wealthy trophy home owners who failed to sell this year

If the 2024 property market is to be remembered for anything it is not for the who’s who of sellers,but the many who didn’t.

  • Lucy Macken
Prime minister Anthony Albanese has sold his Dulwich Hill investment townhouse.

Prime minister scores $1.75m buyer for Dulwich Hill digs

It took more than two months to sell and copped a $150,000 discount,but on Friday night Anthony Albanese finally found a buyer for his Inner West townhouse.

  • Lucy Macken
The Lambourne Estate at Lower Portland was listed in early 2022 for $14 million to $15 million.

Vodka baron cops $7m discount selling luxury Hawkesbury River retreat

He launched a vodka label thanks to help from Robert De Niro and financial backing from James Packer. Later,he tried his luck in the property market.

  • Lucy Macken