Looking out over your hometown from a great height is an awe-inspiring experience, bordering on humbling. After the wild unpredictability and turmoil of the past couple of years, seeing stout-hearted Melbourne spread out before you in 360-degree splendour is a joy. Many will have seen the sights from the Eureka Tower skydeck – it’s always…

The 2010s were a big decade for Fitzroy. Postcode 3065 reached a pop-cultural peak with the arrival of TV series Offspring, which, in the way it captured the suburb, could at times have been a subliminal ad campaign orchestrated by a group of Fitzroy agents. Residents had to put up with the crew taking over sites such…

Tammie Winward remembers that when she was growing up in an outer Melbourne suburb, going into the city was a rare treat. Now that she has her own children, she and her husband Lukas have chosen the opposite; their daughters Layla, 5, and Maggie, 2, are so familiar with the city’s features that it’s like…

Melbourne’s searing property market is set for its biggest test this spring, with two Super Saturdays of auctions scheduled this week and next. A whopping 1250 properties across Melbourne are being auctioned on Saturday, with another 1357 already booked for the next Saturday, November 27, Domain data shows. The property market has boomed on the…

Melbourne property market records a jump in new listings post-lockdown     Melbourne real estate has boomed post-lockdown as frustrated sellers and buyers have rushed to make deals, but the market could soon have a chance to catch its breath.   In many parts of the city the demand for real estate is strong and…

The Melbourne suburbs where rents fell the most and tenants can find cheaper deals     Melbourne renters are taking advantage of cheaper deals beyond the hard-hit CBD in the sought-after inner suburbs, with discounts of 10 per cent or more during lockdown.   Potential tenants may need to get in quickly, though, with the…

Homes for hire: How to make your house work for you     It was during a long drive home after scouring Australia for firm locations and backdrops that television producer Kate Tiller came up with a game-changing idea.   She saw a canyon-sized gap in the market for a one-stop shop where producers like…

How to renovate a modest Australian 1950s home in a posh suburb     It was fortunate the blond-brick Beaumaris house, built circa 1954, fell into the hands of a contemporary architect who understood how to honour its unpretentious bones.   With broken windows, mouldy carpets, obvious termite activity and a leaking roof, it was…

Melbourne’s house and unit prices hit another record high but will they keep rising?     Melbourne’s median house price has surged further beyond $1 million, despite the city being locked down – and the real estate market largely closed – for 90 days in the third quarter of 2021.   According to the latest Domain House…

The gap between Melbourne’s house and unit prices has never been higher   Buyers across Melbourne are looking to upgrade their units for freestanding homes at unprecedented rates, and it’s forcing the price gap between the two types of dwellings into uncharted waters.   New data from the latest Domain House Price Report shows house prices across…