We just bought a Sydney terrace house

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AH - If you adopt me and fake your death, I can get really cheap airfare.

I think you may be older than me, which would make the adoption paperwork interesting

[Sava]

Love will find a way.

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I could marry your butt avatar and we could claim Sparky was our love child.

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This beautiful house goes under the hammer this weekend and is very close, a stone's throw, from the house we bought. You can see it from our house. Gorgeous isn't it?

One side of our house is on Merchant street. It should give us a good indication of how well or ill we did in February when I cornered the Chinaman.

http://www.domain.com.au/Property/For-Sale/House/NSW/Stanmore/?adid=2010437854

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I'm about to buy a house too - my old house in which my ex has been residing. Canberra.

AH, I stay in Petersham when I'm in Sydney, at my aunt's. Anywhere near you?

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Ah, just saw your post above mine - we'll be neighbours for a few days every year

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Sure will

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I'm about to buy a house too - my old house in which my ex has been residing. Canberra.

where are you looking to buy?

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where are you looking to buy?

My old house in which my ex has been residing - we split a couple of years ago and she's been living there while I pay the mortgage, rates, etc. My new wife and I are buying her share.

Curtin.

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Unsolicited advice obviously, and make of it what you will, but Abbott and Hockey are talking openly about slashing 30,000 public service jobs, which will hit Canberra hard, like 1996 when Howard came in. Curtin is pretty buoyant, one bus to Civic and all that, but it will probably stagnate for a couple of years at least after Abbott comes in. The r/e market in Canberra is already subdued. The unit market is slumping through oversupply. I was in Canberra earlier this month.

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As you said elsewhere, bubbles only matter if you sell the house. I'm planning to live in for some time to come.

I had to agree to the current price or sell it, in which case I'd need to buy another one anyway. I agree that Canberra real estate is likely to fall initially under Abbott, but the difference I'd make if I waited until then would be more than offset by paying rent.

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Curtin is a nice area, you won't go wrong there

We have a place in Wanniassa Hills, we might look at moving into a unit in the inner south around Manuka. Our boys won't be coming back to Canberra I think. It will just be wifie and I

[ScrummyAdam]

Congrats. I hope to get into the inner-west someday. A friend of mine rented a apartment in Drummoyne, and it was a brilliant area.

[H Tower]

try online dating, look for a wealthy woman in Sydney

Your wife is shopping around to replace you?

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Great Aussie film to watch on Sydney real estate :

For years Heatwave has languished in the shadow of director Phillip Noyce’s more recent and successful films.

It’s a great pity. Not only is Heatwave a dark, well-made thriller that can legitimately stake a place among the small group of Australian films with genuine noir sensibility, it is politically sharp-edged without coming across as either preachy or didactic.

Heatwave is one of two Australian films based loosely on the real life disappearance in 1975 of Juanita Nielson, a prominent local activist against mass development in the colourful vice quarter of inner Sydney known as Kings Cross. The other, Donald Crombie’s The Killing of Angel of Street, appeared the previous year. So close together were the two films that at one point they were reportedly both shooting at the different ends of the same inner city Sydney street.

Heatwave takes place in the lead-up to Christmas and, as the title suggests, Sydney is sweltering after successive days of high temperatures. A group of Kings Cross residents are fighting attempts to demolish their houses to make way for a giant development named Eden, financed by businessman Peter Houseman (Chris Haywood).

For three years, young firebrand Kate Dean (Judy Davis), and Mary Ford, editor of the community newspaper have led local opposition to Eden. In an effort to dramatically up the ante and bankrupt Houseman, the two women manage to secure the building union’s agreement to place construction bans on the proposed Eden site.

Although the protesters regard Eden as nothing more than a threat to their homes and community, others consider it represents the state of the art landmark in urban development. No one believes more than the brains behind the Eden’s design, architect Stephen West (Richard Moir).

With his million dollar Sydney harbour view and elegant European wife, West is far removed from the conflict being played out in the streets of Kings Cross. “The inner city is changing,” he tells the protestors. “Everyone wants to move closer to the centre and they’ll pay to do it. I’m sorry it’s just a natural process.” However, through his contact with the residents, particularly Kate with whom he develops an unlikely relationship, this ironclad worldview gradually begins to shift.

http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2011/02/heatwave-1982.html#!/2011/02/heatwave-1982.html

A slightly happier one is 'Last Days Of Chez Nous', which should really have been set in Melbourne to match the story, but....