Sold priceYou can get on your computer and look up the public record for just about any property. In the public record, there will be a section called "Deed." Under that heading, there is a list all the transfer dates for a property, the sales price, the grantor (who sold the house) and the grantee (who bought the house). Normally, this information is pretty accurate, although it can be several months out of date. Plus, the public record doesn't always tell the whole story on what a house has sold Read more [...]

Linda has had her Tarneit home on the market for more than six months. Picture: Jay Town Source: Herald Sun MELBOURNE'S median house price has lost more than $800 a week since the property market peaked late last year. House prices have fallen 4.4 per cent from a December high and apartment prices are down 3.4 per cent after hitting their price ceiling in November, Read more [...]

Ours is neither a grand nor luxurious house. But it is exceptional. For over seven centuries, it has stood on the outskirts of Sudbury, perhaps the oldest inhabited private dwelling in Europe, set against the unchanged landscape in which it was built. It inspired the young Gainsborough to play truant from school in the 1740s with his sketchbook. It is the view depicted in his “greatest landscape masterpiece”, Cornard Wood, which hangs in the National Gallery. The painting Read more [...]