With a daughter living and working in Sydney, this NZ couple needed a place that could house them on visits and also provide their daughter with a leg up into the Sydney property market.  The budget was initially set at $4m, minimal work required and (if an apartment) no small (scary) elevators!

With two young kids, big jobs, no time and the desire for a simultaneous settlement, this search needed to be efficient. The brief was a free-standing house on a 300sqm+ block, space for a pool, liveable now but with renovation potential, as far north as Bondi, west to Randwick and south to Maroubra (but not Maroubra!).