Can someone fix the diabolical rental mess before I evict my kids?
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Renting

Can someone fix the diabolical rental mess before I evict my kids?

Premier Chris Minns has promised sweeping rental reforms to provide housing certainty to young people. So what’s the hold up?

  • byAlexandra Smith

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‘A future of dead plants’:Pitch to scrap unit sunlight standards criticised

‘A future of dead plants’:Pitch to scrap unit sunlight standards criticised

A NSW Productivity Commission proposal to remove the requirement that apartments get some sunlight could be a step in a dark and gloomy direction,say critics.

  • byJulie Power
They built a Sydney suburb at a train station but nobody came

They built a Sydney suburb at a train station but nobody came

Once tipped to become “the Burwood of the south-west”,Leppington remains a sea of paddocks. One stop over,Edmondson Park is taking off. Why?

  • byMichael Koziol
‘Now selling’? The court fight over an Elizabeth Bay development

‘Now selling’? The court fight over an Elizabeth Bay development

The proposed luxury apartments in a prime eastern suburbs locale have yet to receive planning approval,but the signs suggest it is full steam ahead.

  • byMichaela Whitbourn
Mall giant keen to sell $1.57b Box Hill shopping centre development

Mall giant keen to sell $1.57b Box Hill shopping centre development

Mall giant Vicinity has received an unsolicited approach from an interested buyer to take over the $1.57 billion development of Box Hill Central shopping centre.

  • byNicole Lindsay
The number of apartments to be added to your suburb revealed
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City life

The number of apartments to be added to your suburb revealed

Preston,Ringwood,Epping and Camberwell will get the most new apartment blocks as the state government seizes planning control over suburban activity centres.

  • byAdam Carey andSophie Aubrey
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The jet-setting,Bentley driving builder who left 850 defects in his wake
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The jet-setting,Bentley driving builder who left 850 defects in his wake

Building contractor Sippy Grewal promises to “bring your dreams to reality”. The building commissioner says some of his work is a “purchaser’s nightmare”.

  • byMax Maddison
Developer lauds rescue deal that could negate ‘slanderous’ ASIC misconduct probe
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Investigation

Developer lauds rescue deal that could negate ‘slanderous’ ASIC misconduct probe

Embattled property developer Paul Chiodo’s collapsed Keystone Asset Management could be rebirthed via a deal that would steer it away from liquidation.

  • bySarah Danckert
‘Cash for access’ to connect water and power delaying housing developments

‘Cash for access’ to connect water and power delaying housing developments

A councillor in Melbourne’s outer west said there were instances where estates were being built with no sewerage and traffic lights were taking months to be turned on because of the ‘cash for access’ practice.

  • byKieran Rooney
How migration is ‘turbocharging’ housing demand on Melbourne’s fringe

How migration is ‘turbocharging’ housing demand on Melbourne’s fringe

The government wants to flip Melbourne’s growth from the fringes to its established suburbs,but it will need to overcome years of migration trends to do so.

  • byAdam Carey
Hemmes family seeks $19 million from Sydney Metro in court fight
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Sydney Metro

Hemmes family seeks $19 million from Sydney Metro in court fight

The family company of hospitality mogul Justin Hemmes argues the value of its Ivy entertainment precinct will be reduced by land acquisitions for a station next door.

  • byPatrick Begley