Rents in regional areas as safe as houses
Median rent rises paint a picture of city and country divides in a post pandemic market
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Regional Australia saw the greatest rent hikes, up almost 50 percent in some areas over the past 12 months, PropTrack date reveals.
While property values have taken a dive in some regional centres, such as the Richmond-Tweed area in northern NSW, house rents in Katanning, three hours south west of Perth in WA, have risen by 47 percent to a median of $375 per week.
Port Broughton on the Yorke Peninsula north west of Adelaide, saw the next biggest rise for housing rents, up 43 percent to $340. Gatton, located between Brisbane and Toowoomba in Queensland, came in third, with a median house rent of $460, a 41 percent increase over the past year.
In a sign that post pandemic city life may be returning to ‘business as usual’, PropTrack reports the greatest increases in rental unit prices were all in inner city areas in the east coast states. The city of Melbourne unit rents recorded the highest increase of 42 percent over the past 12 months, at a median of $540 per week. The was followed by the little known Sydney inner city suburb of Darlington, up 38 percent to $565 per week and The Rocks, where unit prices rose by 35 percent to $975 per week.
Clear Island Waters on the Gold Coast recorded the highest unit increases outside Victoria and NSW, up 34 percent to $745 a week.
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The penthouse unit at 80 Columbus Circle in Manhattan spans 8,000 square feet and once set a price record for the city.
2 minEight is definitely someone’s lucky number—especially when a few zeros are tacked on at the end.
The top-floor unit of the 80-storey 80 Columbus Circle in Manhattan is coming to market for the first time in more than 20 years and asking a nice round $80 million.
The full-floor unit spans over 8,000 square feet and is part of the Mandarin Oriental Residences above the hotel in the Deutsche Bank Center. It has eight rooms with eight ensuite baths, each with its own walk-in shower.
It last sold in 2005 for a hair under $30 million to cosmetics executive Sandie Tillotson, a founding member and senior vice president at the Utah-based Nu Skin Enterprises. She agreed to purchase the unit in 2001 while the complex was under development as the Time Warner Center.
Today, the six-bedroom apartment features spacious living areas and views from every room, including a close-up view of Central Park and panoramic 360-degree vistas stretching to the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, according to listing agent Eva J. Mohr of Sotheby’s International Realty.
“There are windows all the way around,” Mohr said. “The views are spectacular and there are no obstacles in front of the windows.
The apartment comes with a library and cinema, a primary bedroom with its own lounge, an oversized kitchen, a corner breakfast area with two glass walls and a utility room with caterer-level equipment and two sinks—one for prepping flowers and the other for bathing pets.
The 80th-floor unit has never been resold and was rarely used by the seller, according to information provided by the listing agency. The corresponding top-level unit in the complex’s second tower just sold. That unit once belonged to Related Companies boss Stephen Ross and sold for $50.7 million in an off-market deal last week.
“The one that went for $55 (sic) million was completely redone with marble and it was beautiful, but you don’t have the views,” Mohr said.
When Tillotson bought the property, the $30 million contract was a record price for a condominium, according to the New York Times. In 2005, the apartment was delivered as “8,200 square feet of raw space” and Tillotson brought her own team to do the interiors, the Times reported.
Tillotson’s Nu Skin is a seller of anti-ageing and wellness products that was founded in the 1980s and is active in more than 50 international markets, particularly in China. The publicly traded company has also recently expanded into India. Nu Skin has several thousand permanent employees at its Provo, Utah, headquarters as well as tens of thousands of salespeople worldwide.
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