by Paul Karp | Feb 20, 2026 | News
Woollahra in Sydney’s east is the most feasible place to build new apartments in the city because profit on each unit is about $1.2 million, according to research the NSW Labor government used to back its plans to triple density in the suburb. The Centre for...
by Megan Gorrey | Jan 22, 2026 | News
The residents of 80 small flats in a modest apartment block known as the Chimes, in the inner Sydney suburb of Potts Point, have long been as eclectic as the streets that surround them. But the 1960s building is not long for this world, and the people who call it home...
by PPPG | Jan 14, 2026 | News
The Department of Planning and Environment emailed PPPG two days before Christmas informing us that the Deputy Secretary had approved the application for the Concept Proposal for Mixed Use with Affordable Housing – 45-53 Macleay Street [the Chimes], (SSD-79316759 )....
by PPPG | Jan 13, 2026 | News
“It is interesting to note that one day after the SMH runs a story about young people getting a foothold in the inner Sydney property market by purchasing smaller dwellings, such as studio and one-bedroom apartments (“Cassandra grew up in a large family home. Then she...
by Anne Davies | Jan 12, 2026 | News
Eamonn Fitzpatrick, a former media adviser to several Labor premiers and prime ministers, says he ‘self-reported two genuine errors’ and rectified the lobbyist register immediately New South Wales ministers have been warned not to meet alone with one of the most...
by Kate Shaw | Jan 12, 2026 | News
This may come as a surprise given the media narrative, but Australia is not in a generalised housing crisis. Two-thirds of the nation’s householders own or are buying their homes – they are by definition not in housing crisis. The 20 per cent who own...
