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Spring 2026
On why the harbour-front market has gone still — and why that is, mostly, a good thing.
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Suzanna · Sydney
MMXXVI — Spring
The Spring Issue
Houses,
quietly
sold.
Suzanna is a Sydney real estate agent for the people who would rather not shout. Six properties in this issue. Each one, chosen.
Plate 01 — Featured Property33.8688° S · 151.2093° E
Featured property
Six propertiesA letter from the agentNotes on the marketScroll ↓
Contents — In this issue
P. 03 — 11№ 01p. 03
Editor's note
A letter from Suzanna.
№ 02p. 04
Portfolio
Six houses, this season.
№ 03p. 08
Atelier
The way we work.
№ 04p. 11
Letters
Correspondence.
№ 01 — A Letter
P. 03
From the editor
On the quiet
sale of homes.
I have always been suspicious of urgency in property. The houses I love most were never rushed — they were lived in, considered, and one day, gently passed on. Selling a home should feel the same.
This issue collects six homes I have come to know across Sydney. Some are public; some are not yet listed. All of them have a quality that drew me in, and which I hope might draw you in too.
— Suzanna
Suzanna, photographed at Sydney Olympic Park, March 2026.
№ 02 — Portfolio
Six houses,
this season.
“
A house, sold well, ought to feel handed over — not handed off.
— Suzanna, in conversation with The Saturday Paper, 2025
№ 03 — Atelier
The way
we work.
A practice of four — Suzanna, two campaign managers, a photographer. We take on a handful of properties at a time. We answer our own telephone. The first conversation is, always, a long one.
№ 04 — Notes