LONDON: A UK court has held as unlawful a British landlord’s ban on “coloured” people from India and Pakistan renting his properties because they cooked curry and left behind lingering smells. Fergus Wilson, who owns hundreds of properties in Kent in south-east England, had denied being racist but lost the legal action brought by the…
DAN F STAPLETON – OCT 28, 2017 House prices have fallen dramatically in Sydney suburbs that have been affected by the WestConnex project, according to new Domain Group data. The median house prices in the inner west suburbs of Haberfield and St Peters have fallen by 17.2 per cent and 9.2 per cent respectively in the past…
Lisa Visentin Published: October 23 2017 – 8:43AM Two-thirds of Sydneysiders will be able to commute between their jobs, homes and key services within 30 minutes, but they may have to wait 40 years to do so, under new long-term strategies that will divide Sydney into three interconnected cities. The NSW government claimed a “historic”, “first time”…
James Robertson Published: October 25 2017 – 12:15AM Liana Levin says she felt as if she was evicted from much of a suburb not just an apartment. For nearly three years the working single mother-of-two’s life was tied to an apartment in Zetland, an inner eastern Sydney suburb in the heart of the major urban redevelopment…
JENNIFER DUKE- OCT 20, 2017 Australia’s millions of property investors will soon have a new outlet to lobby the government, with a group set to launch aiming to protect their interests. In a draft announcement provided to Domain, the soon-to-be-formed Property Investors Council of Australia (PICA) describes themselves as a not-for-profit association run “by property investors, for the interests of…
JENNIFER DUKE – OCT 29, 2017 When Damian Pasternak and Danielli Paiva were deciding where to buy their first home, they quickly realised the upper north shore suburb of Roseville, where they are renting, was not an option. Instead, they started looking a further 50 kilometres north along the Central Coast. “[The decision was] mainly price-driven. Sydney is too expensive at the moment,” Mr Pasternak said.…
James Robertson Published: November 1 2017 – 6:50PM A promise by the NSW government to protect renters’ rights has the premier facing a potential showdown with the city’s richest man who is threatening to stop constructing thousands of rental properties in a move that could drive up rents across Sydney. Following a promise by the opposition to extend…
Lisa Visentin Published: November 4 2017 – 12:15AM It is a question not asked of other global cities. Is New York full? How about Paris? And yet the sentiment appears to be gaining traction in the minds of many Sydneysiders. For more than a year, the NSW government has championed its delivery of record housing approvals…