Business / Sydney, NSW

The Sydney suburbs where home owners are selling at a loss

The Age Alice Uribe

26 Sept 2026 05:00 AEST Summary

Housing

From the report

Unit sellers are among those pushing up the average of homes being sold for less than they were bought.

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Niral Score 8.5 mundaneloaded

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Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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The Age The Sydney suburbs where home owners are selling at a loss plain
The Age The Melbourne suburbs where property owners are selling at a loss plain

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The Ageas they published this story	8.5

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The Age The Melbourne suburbs where property owners are selling at a loss Niral 8.5 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald The Sydney suburbs where home owners are selling at a loss Niral 8.5 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald The Melbourne suburbs where property owners are selling at a loss Niral 8.5 political 0 WAtoday The Sydney suburbs where home owners are selling at a loss Niral 8.5 political 0 WAtoday The Melbourne suburbs where property owners are selling at a loss Niral 8.5 political 0 Brisbane Times The Sydney suburbs where home owners are selling at a loss Niral 8.5 political 0