Block where luxury meets affordability and need
It’s the brave new world of affordable housing – a luxury apartment block where some people are forking out up to $2.4 million for units and others are paying just…
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Sirius reno to polish Sydney’s rough diamond
Work has finally started on one of Sydney’s most loved – and loathed – buildings, reconfiguring the 1970s Housing Commission block Sirius at The Rocks into a luxury apartment complex…
How apartments have made us the luxey country
Apartments were once the poor relations of the property market. But now, as Sue Williams discovers, savvy buyers are finding they can get more bang for their luxury bucks in…
With $1.7m one-bedders – you cannot be Sirius
The boxy, brutalist Sirius building is about to be transformed from a pragmatic, utilitarian ugly duckling to a swan worthy of a ballet at the Sydney Opera House, over which…
Podcast: Sirius, sunset clawbacks and feral cats
There is no building in Sydney that has polarised opinions more than the Sirius apartments on Circular Quay – unless you include the Opera House, its architectural antithesis across the…
‘Secret’ estate townhouses set to smash sales records
It can hardly be called a secret but scaffolding, workers in high-vis vests and trucks are the only obvious clues to an intriguing new development underway in Pyrmont. The project…
Indian stunner – world’s most expensive home
By Flat Chat reporter Sue Williams in Mumbai Where is the world’s most expensive apartment? The answer may surprise you: it’s in India. And the building was started by Australian…
Dog parks, virtual golf and club rooms – the future of apartment living
There is a growing division in the world of apartment living and it’s not, for a change, between owners and renters. It’s between the haves and the have-nots. There are…