Lucy Macken

Serisier House was built as a gift to Watsons Bay. As gifts go, it paid off handsomely thanks to the private equity boss who bought it.

The Central Coast used to be considered the poor cousin to Palm Beach, but it now has holidaying billionaires and corporate heavy hitters galore.

The six-bedroom house wasn’t a good investment for WiseTech Global’s chief, by any measure, but it did at least return a whopping capital gain to the wife of drug dealer Mark Chikarovski.

Little is known about Hoang Trang Do, apart from his impressive real estate portfolio, but if any house says, “you’ve made it”, then this does.

Get in quick: there are only five left, they’re nearly in the same stratosphere as James Packer’s bachelor pad, and they eclipsed a Rich Lister garbo.

Interest rates are tipped to stay high next week, but that won’t worry high-end buyers paying as much as $19 million for their dream homes.

There are only seven houses that line the waterfront on Palm Beach’s Waratah Road, so when one is for sale it’s with good reason.

Just before Sydney’s property market closes for the summer comes one of the year’s most anticipated listings – the home of a famous Lebanon expat.

He paid a record-setting price last year when he purchased his 16-room mansion with indoor swimming pool, and is no doubt hoping to better the price.

Economic headwinds? Not this high up the property price chain. Buyers splashed almost $1 billion on the 20 most expensive homes of the year.