Envy Apartment

Kathryn Greiner , the former City of Sydney councillor and Gonski Review panellist , has downsized to a $ 4 million penthouse in the Paddington Green complex . Greiner, AO is the one-time first lady of state politics when her former husband Nick Greiner was NSW premier from 1988 to 1992. However, the couple’s split in 2013 prompted them to sell their Centennial Park mansion for $6.25 million the following year. Kathryn Greiner 's new spread in Paddington." /> Kathryn Greiner ’s new spread in Paddington. Photo: Supplied Greiner has been rumoured to be house hunting a decent downsizer in the years since. Her new digs is a whole-floor spread with three bedrooms and 213 square metres of wraparound terrace.  It was owned by LHC Capital co- founder Marcus Hughes , who bought it three years ago for $2.9 million. Nick Greiner, meanwhile, has moved to Point Piper where he and his partner Carolyn Fletcher bought an apartment for $5.5 million in 2014. Kathryn Greiner at 21/4 Y...

The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...