Sydney’s Inner-City Vacancies Could Tighten
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Sydney’s Inner-City Vacancies Could Tighten

The rental market is set to feel a supply squeeze.

By Terry Christodoulou
Thu, Apr 22, 2021 2:49pmGrey Clock < 1 min

Finding an inner-city rental is set to become increasingly difficult as the number of vacancies in Sydney’s inner suburbs is set to tighten as a number of investors look to sell their properties to take advantage of rapidly rising prices.

According to data from suburbtrends.com more than one in three (34%) of properties listed for sale in Leichhardt, in Sydney’s inner west, are ex-rental homes – the highest proportion of investment properties currently on the market in a given area.

North Sydney and Mosman fared similarly with one in four (25%) properties listed ex-rentals, the eastern suburbs presented 28% in the month of March.

Of course, if the bulk of homes being bought are to be turned into owner-occupiers, there will be some flow-on effects to the rental market.

Further, 14% of the Perth city market and 5% of the Melbourne city market are ex-rentals.



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The actress and her husband, comedy writer Dave McCary, are asking $26.5 million for the newly renovated estate, according to Eric Moreland of Moreland Properties/Forbes Global Properties, one of the listing agents. The 1.25-acre property, located in the upscale Tarrytown neighbourhood, will be among the most expensive on the market in Austin.

Stone and McCary have spent more than three years renovating and restoring the Texas property, Moreland said.

A spokesperson for Stone didn’t respond to requests for comment. Moreland said the couple’s New York business interests have expanded since they started the remodel, and while they hope to live in Austin eventually, it doesn’t make sense for now.

The couple, who are co-founders of the production company Fruit Tree, own a roughly $12 million apartment in lower Manhattan, according to property records. Stone is slated to star in the upcoming contemporary Western film “Eddington.”

It’s unclear what Stone and McCary paid for the Austin property, since Texas is a nondisclosure state . The Georgian-style brick house dates to around 1940, making it one of the oldest estates in the area.

The roughly 10,000-square-foot estate includes a main house with four bedrooms and a two-bedroom guesthouse. The property also has a pool, a hot tub, and a garage with a screening room and entertaining space above.

As part of the renovation, the couple removed, cleaned and reused all the exterior brick. They also reconfigured some of the living spaces, opening the kitchen to the living room for a more modern layout. It took more than a year just to install the millwork in the screening room, said Moreland.

The contractors are now putting the finishing touches on the property, he said.

The “La La Land” actress has a track record of buying and selling her homes for significantly more than she paid. In 2022, she sold her blufftop Malibu, Calif., home for $4.425 million after buying it for $3.25 million in 2018, according to property records.

Last year, she sold her home in L.A.’s Comstock Hills neighbourhood for $4.3 million, significantly more than the $2.3 million she paid in 2019.

Austin saw an influx of new residents during COVID, but many of those are now returning to the East and West coasts, particularly workers in the tech sector.

While the market “has come down to earth a little bit” since the pandemic-era boom, Moreland said, he has seen a number of $20 million-plus deals over the past few months.

Moreland has the listing with colleague Diane Humphreys.

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