Entries by JKents

How fence dispute sparked $200k neighbour battle

A neighbour row over a strip of land just 3cm across has left a family facing “death threats” from locals. Darren and Debbie White have been locked in a bitter dispute with the Alder family in Chelmsford, Essex, since 2016. The court battle started when the White family demolished a boundary wall to make room […]

How Gen Z accountant tackled record housing market

Gen Z landlord Gibson Pham bought a house in Rockhampton late last year when he was priced out of Sydney. Picture: Tim Hunter. A Gen Z landlord warns the lucrative first homebuyer grant could be irrelevant for many young people seeing them ‘fall into a trap’ unless tweaked. Gibson Pham thought his property-ownership days were […]

Sonia Kruger sells luxury Sydney home for $19m

Sonia Kruger x Three Warrior Facials Lunch. Sonia Kruger TV presenter Sonia Kruger and her husband, former head of news and current affairs at Seven, Craig McPherson, have pocketed $19m from the sale of their Mosman house. Their five-bedroom Stanton Rd trophy home settled last week with its cash buyer being the Primo Smallgoods matriarch […]

Homeowners face ‘tough’ debt decision after Albo election win

Newly re-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been urged to make cost of living support an urgent priority as alarming new polling shows debt problems have pushed many Aussies to the edge. The study showed mortgage repayments were swallowing more than half the monthly income of about one in five Aussie homeowners, who now face […]

Big Aus bank’s massive rate cut call after historic Labor win

NAB expects 50 bps cut in May and the sam by August it said Monday. One of Australia’s Big Four banks has reaffirmed a massive interest rate call just 48 hours after Labor’s historic election win. National Australia Bank expects the equivalent of four rate cuts to be put in place by the Reserve Bank […]

Rose Bay mansion with James Packer link has $90m hopes

A boss for the Packer family appears to be following in James’ footsteps after making a $90 million play for his 200-guest Aussie mansion. A Rose Bay mansion with links to James Packer has hit the market with hopes above $90m. The five-bedroom residence in Bayview Hill Rd is the home of Lawrence Myers, chief […]

‘Ridiculous’: Tiny land parcel sells for megabucks

Tiny slivers of land with electricity boxes – some even sporting hazard signs – have been selling for unimaginable prices across Sydney. The latest sales saw three small properties previously owned by Ausgrid change hands late last week in Sydney’s lower north shore, including two properties in Mosman and one in Neutral Bay. These sales […]

Plans revealed for three major suburb rezonings in NSW

The three sites, located near key train stations, will soon be home to thousands more homes as their councils embrace higher density.  Local plans for the suburbs of North Wollongong, St Marys in western Sydney, and the Lake Macquarie suburb of Cockle Creek have just been released.  Each of these sites were identified as part […]