The Australian suburbs going gangbusters – and it’s not where you think
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Australia’s largest real estate group Ray White has released the top three best performing suburbs in each state – and the results may surprise you.
Data analyst for Ray White, William Clark said while growth had slowed across the country over 2022, there were still pockets where prices continue to increase apace.
In NSW, Bellbird near Cessnock experienced a 150.6 percent increase in growth, with median sales prices reaching $550,000 over the past year. Sydney’s Box Hill was another strong performer, with a 132.7 percent rise, bringing median sales prices up to $1.245m, while median sales in Leppington in Sydney’s west reached $1.075m – a 122.3 percent rise over the year.
Queensland recorded the next best results, with Collinsville, west of Proserpine, recording median sales increases of 65.9 percent and Eumundi, a rural town on the Sunshine Coast, where prices rose on average by 63 percent over the past year to a median of $1.32m.
Three suburbs in Victoria – Rochester, Point Lonsdale and Port Fairy – all saw sales increases of more than 50 percent in the past year with similar results in South Australia for Burnside, Beaumont and Elizabeth South.
“It appears prices have risen evenly in both the regions and the outer reaches of a major city,” Mr Clark said. “Interestingly, we never see the high percentage growth in the traditionally expensive or inner city suburbs that dominate the leaderboards for dollar growth.
“While the trend over the pandemic lockdowns was a shift to the regions, that trend appears to have slowed somewhat, as workers have returned to the office.”
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The personal wardrobe of the late fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, who is credited for introducing punk to fashion and further developing the style, is headed to auction in June.
Christie’s will hold the live sale in London on June 25, while some of the pieces will be available in an online auction from June 14-28, according to a news release from the auction house on Monday.
Andreas Kronthaler, Westwood’s husband and the creative director for her eponymous fashion company, selected the clothing, jewellery, and accessories for the sale, and the auction will benefit charitable organisations The Vivienne Foundation, Amnesty International, and Médecins Sans Frontières.
The more than 200 lots span four decades of Westwood’s fashion, dating to Autumn/Winter 1983-84, which was one of Westwood’s earliest collections. Titled “Witches,” the collection was inspired by witchcraft as well as Keith Haring’s “graphic code of magic symbols,” and the earliest piece being offered from it is a two-piece ensemble made of navy blue serge, according to the release.
“Vivienne Westwood’s sense of activism, art and style is embedded in each and every piece that she created,” said Adrian Hume-Sayer, the head of sale and director of Private & Iconic Collections at Christie’s.
A corset gown of taupe silk taffeta from “Dressed to Scale,” Autumn/Winter 1998-99, will also be included in the sale. The collection “referenced the fashions that were documented by the 18th century satirist James Gillray and were intended to attract as well as provoke thought and debate,” according to Christie’s.
Additionally, a dress with a blue and white striped blouse and a printed propaganda modesty panel and apron is a part of the wardrobe collection. The dress was a part of “Propaganda,” Autumn/Winter 2005-06, Westwood’s “most overtly political show” at the time. It referenced both her punk era and Aldous Huxley’s essay “Propaganda in a Democratic Society,” according to Christie’s.
The wardrobe collection will be publicly exhibited at Christie’s London from June 14-24.
“The pre-sale exhibition and auctions at Christie’s will celebrate her extraordinary vision with a selection of looks that mark significant moments not only in her career, but also in her personal life,” Hume-Sayer said. “This will be a unique opportunity for audiences to encounter both the public and the private world of the great Dame Vivienne Westwood and to raise funds for the causes in which she so ardently believed.”
Westwood died in December 2022 in London at the age of 81.
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