Your Say: to AirBnb or not to AirBnb?
Should Inner Westies be able to turn their home into an Air BnB? ‘I reckon as long as you own your property, or if it’s within your lease’s contract, AirBNB-ing out your house helps both […]
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Inner West Whispers – 291
GM musical chairs– Tight squeeze Taverners – Facebook for (lost) dogs • Vanessa Chan, the General Manager of the Inner West Council and former GM of Ashfield Council, left her position early this month. She has […]
Local News – 287
Local Students Tackle Marine Conservation Working in partnership with Take 3, a not-for-profit organisation, students from City of Canada Bay have been congratulated on their campaigns to reduce marine pollution. The campaigns, which include litter-free […]
Inner West Whispers – 284
Sports Club reno, The Inner West goes (more) gourmet, our apologies • Canada Bay Council has agreed to rezone the site of the former Drummoyne Sports Club to allow a block of apartments to be built. […]
Your say: Housing affordability
Are you worried about housing affordability in Sydney? “Yes, definitely for my children and grandchildren. They will never be able to put down a deposit on a place in Sydney.” Elizabeth, Leichhardt “I wish it […]
Inner West Whispers – 279
Let them eat cheesecake – pretty vacant – confused Italian • NSW Premier Mike Baird made an unsavoury comment last week opening the newly refurbished Pasticceria Papa, Haberfield’s most famous shop. The appearance was bittersweet […]
Local News – 256
Just a bit…Great! A raft of Inner Westies have provided the bang behind an upcoming comedy show putting the spotlight on people with disabilities. A stand-out event of the Sydney Comedy Festival in 2014, Just […]
The designer revival of a backyard dunny?
The enduring presence of a turn of the century brick outhouse in the Sydney suburb of Balmain piqued the interest of our property contrarians, Jonathan Chancellor and Margie Blok, despite the property failing to sell […]
Lowered price expectations for Domenic Alvaro’s Surry Hills Small House
Sydney architect Domenic Alvaro’s strikingly small, five storey Surry Hills house has had its price expectations adjusted down a bit ahead of its October 18 auction. There is now $1.8 million plus guidance having been […]
Uninhabitable crumbling 1850s Balmain East cottage secures $2.68 million price
A crumbling 1850s Victorian-era cottage in Balmain fetched $2.68 million at auction this morning. There were five bidders for the uninhabitable offering. The much-publicised two-bedroom, 452-square metre offering at 3 James Lane, Balmain East boasts […]