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Elizabeth Redman

Elizabeth Redman

Elizabeth Redman is the national property editor at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Rising rents make it harder to save for a home.

The modest type of housing where rents have soared

Landlords are asking tenants to find hundreds of dollars more a week for the same properties than they were a few years ago.

  • Elizabeth Redman

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2/125 Mount Street, Coogee

Mum and dad help son buy $1,195,000 Coogee one-bedder

Six bidders registered for the auction of the art deco apartment, including first home buyers and investors.

  • Carmen Forward and Elizabeth Redman
Builder Anthony Malone just got approval to build a home - with 86 conditions.

Anthony is trying to build a house. It comes with 86 conditions

The builder has seen regulations blow out over the years, making it harder to deliver affordable housing.

  • Elizabeth Redman and Kristy Johnson
Australia has many small households, but not many one-bedroom homes.

Call for ‘desirable’ spare bedrooms to be taxed to help fix housing

More than 60 per cent of Australian households contain only one or two people, but new research shows most homes are family-sized.

  • Elizabeth Redman
As housing costs rise, more people move in together.

We’re building 1.2m new homes, but we’re not using the homes we have

Work has started on speeding up the delivery of new home-building, but there are also options to put existing homes to better use.

  • Elizabeth Redman
Stamp duty discourages some home owners from moving for job opportunities because the costs buying and selling a property are so large, Domain says.

How the stamp duty burden near-tripled in a generation

Stamp duty has risen faster than incomes over the past two and a half decades, slugging current home buyers with extra costs compared to a generation ago.

  • Elizabeth Redman
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Three parties competed for the period home in Essendon.

‘Melbourne’s coming back’: Young family pays $200,000 above reserve to nab $1.45m period home

Three parties fought with rapid-fire bids, pushing the price more than $200,000 above the sellers’ hopes.

  • Elizabeth Redman
Some suburbs have wide gaps between the most expensive and least expensive houses.

The luxury suburbs where the most expensive homes are going through the roof

The gap between top-end house prices and more affordable abodes has narrowed, but mansions in some areas are priced far above the rest.

  • Elizabeth Redman
New homes are getting approved, then getting stuck.

Australia is trying to build 1.2 million homes, but they’re getting stuck

Never have so many homes been delivered over a five-year period – but there could be a better solution.

  • Elizabeth Redman and Jim Malo
The Byron shire is home to a higher share of Airbnb properties than the national average.

The coastal towns with the most homes listed on Airbnb

Some of Australia’s most sought-after coastal towns have twice as many Airbnbs as average, and one beach hotspot has 10 times as many.

  • Elizabeth Redman