News about Harry Seidler

Fransca Packer, the billionaire's heiress, is selling her five bedroom penthouse in Darlinghurst, Sydney, for $35 million

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 11, 2023
According to a recent survey, Francesca Packer has listed the Sydney apartment she purchased just four years ago. According to the Daily Telegraph, the billionaire heiress is 'quietly' offloading the house for a whopping $35 million. She rented the penthouse property back in 2019 and now has a tidy profit.

Why post-war houses in Australia have stood the test of time

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 28, 2022
For a simple reason, Dr. Tony Matthews, a Griffith University urban planning lecturer, said Australian houses built after the war had aged well: they weren't demanding and mixed in. They're not meant to draw excessive attention to themselves, and not to be overbearing,' he told Daily Mail Australia. They're becoming more popular in Sydney's middle-ring suburbs (top right), Melbourne (bottom right), and Brisbane (left), where bushland was allowed to build houses for married war veterans and their young children, who are now referred to as retirement-age baby boomers.