by Alice Urbe | Jan 12, 2026 | News
Cassandra Macdonald grew up in a large family home on Sydney’s northern beaches. Now she lives in a 28-square-metre inner-city apartment and wouldn’t swap it. While buying a studio in Sydney’s cosmopolitan Potts Point was a financial decision, Macdonald, a high school...
by Jonathan Chancellor | Dec 18, 2025 | News
A writ was issued earlier this month authorising entry by the Sheriff to take possession of the studio apartment of Anastasia Moesses in Sydney’s Potts Point complex, The Chimes. It likely triggers the unseemly aspect of the strata renewal laws into practice next...
by Elizabeth Farrelly | Nov 25, 2025 | News
Ignoring the obvious reversion to bad old NSW planning habits, most have hailed this bill as “the biggest overhaul of NSW planning laws in 50 years” that would “curb the maze,” writes Elizabeth Farrelly. Image: Collage by Tom Grant You’d think the thing we call...
by Anne Davies | Oct 22, 2025 | News
A development backed by media scion James Packer in Sydney’s Kings Cross is pitting the former prime minister Paul Keating against former New South Wales premier Morris Iemma. Keating, who lives and works in the Kings Cross area, has long had an interest in preserving...
by Michael McGowan | Oct 22, 2025 | News
Former Labor premier turned lobbyist Morris Iemma had a “regular catch-up” scheduled with a senior adviser to Chris Minns, who he petitioned over a stalled housing development in Menangle which later received provisional go-ahead from the NSW Planning Department. A...
by Max Maddison | Oct 19, 2025 | News
Profits Set to Swell From Affordable Developments By Max Maddison — State Political Reporter Developers will recoup up to seven times the value of the discounted rent they are meant to provide under a state government affordable housing initiative, new research has...