Star chef adds laneway to multimillion restaurant property empire

Star chef adds laneway to multimillion restaurant property empire

Restaurateur Chris Lucas is building up a tidy property portfolio to underpin his hospitality empire.

  • byNicole Lindsay

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Homes billed as seven-star comfort turn out to be ‘closer to a tent’

Homes billed as seven-star comfort turn out to be ‘closer to a tent’

A seven-star energy-efficient home built today might look like a high-quality home,but turn out to be as comfortable as a tent,a new report warns.

  • byTawar Razaghi andJim Malo
Hate property developers? It’s high time you stopped
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Opinion

Hate property developers? It’s high time you stopped

The building of homes by developers is a necessary form of trouble. Let’s work together to get it right if we want to solve the housing crisis.

  • byTony Richards
Six more train stations added to high-density housing plan

Six more train stations added to high-density housing plan

More councils are putting themselves forward for greater density around train stations as the state government’s signature housing policy is due to start.

  • byAlexandra Smith
Sarina Russo wins right to build unit block twice the allowed height

Sarina Russo wins right to build unit block twice the allowed height

High-profile Brisbane businesswoman Sarina Russo has been given planning permission to build a unit block at twice the allowable height in Brisbane’s inner south.

  • byCameron Atfield
The bonus encouraging Melbourne developers to build offices – during a housing crisis
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Planning

The bonus encouraging Melbourne developers to build offices – during a housing crisis

Parkland,affordable housing and commercial office spaces earn developers bonuses to build in Melbourne’s CBD. The code was meant to be reviewed but it hasn’t been touched.

  • byRachel Eddie
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Never mind the poor. In Cottesloe,the gap is widening between the rich and super-rich

Never mind the poor. In Cottesloe,the gap is widening between the rich and super-rich

Personal income analysis has declared Cottesloe Australia’s most unequal suburb. Here’s a glimpse of how the wealthiest live there – and how your suburb rates.

  • byJesinta Burton
Jacka Foundation sells historic Fitzroy digs

Jacka Foundation sells historic Fitzroy digs

Not-for-profit landlord,the Jacka Foundation,is selling the historic Fitzroy factory where the Southern School of Natural Therapies has operated for nearly 30 years.

  • byNicole Lindsay
Could this affordable housing model work in Brisbane?

Could this affordable housing model work in Brisbane?

Houses now cost 12 years of average earnings. If you don’t have the “bank of mum and dad” to help with a deposit,you might be looking at something like this.

  • byCourtney Kruk
From a wasteland to million-dollar views:Sydney apartment building with a message for the future

From a wasteland to million-dollar views:Sydney apartment building with a message for the future

The people who make Sydney an interesting place to live are being shunted to the fringes. The NSW housing minister wants to change that.

  • byJulie Power
Search for buildings with defect notices across Sydney

Search for buildings with defect notices across Sydney

Dozens of orders for developers to fix defective apartment buildings in Sydney have been issued over the past three years. This is where they are.