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The profitable Perth suburb where sellers pocketed a whopping $1 million

Perth property sellers are walking away from property sales with the highest profits in more than a decade with the suburb of Rossmoyne recording a median profit exceeding $1 million.

Profit making sales from houses across Australia have reached their highest since 2008, with 96 per cent reselling for a profit in the last financial year, Domain’s Profit and Loss report shows.

Just four per cent of houses across Australia failed to make a profit in the 12 months to June.

Perth homeowners are walking away with a median of $231,000 in profits from house resales, with 97.1 per cent of houses up for resale making a profit in the last financial year.

More than 90 per cent of units made a profit with the median sum $100,000.

Rossmoyne is top of the leaderboard for profit, recording a median profit of $1 million, a whopping gain of 288 per cent.

It was followed by City Beach (gain of $865,605 or 161 per cent), Willetton (gain of $608,000 or 130 per cent) and Bull Creek (gain of $680,000 or 120 per cent).

More than half of the 300 odd suburbs in the Perth metropolitan area recorded no loss making sales including the coastal suburb of Alkimos, Beaconsfield, Jane Brook and Victoria Park.

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The median loss on a house sale was $55,000 and the median loss on a unit sale was $32,500. Northbridge, East Perth, Cockburn Central and Perth recorded the most loss making sales with more than half of sellers posting a loss.

Nationally, houses in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne provide the greatest dollar return – $655,000, $435,000 and $397,000 respectively.

Domain chief of economics and research Nicola Powell said the record number of homes reselling for a profit reflected the longevity of homeowners.

“That tells us that the vast majority of homeowners have owned their property for a number of years, and probably many of them have bought prior to that 2020 upswing in price where we saw prices rise nationally,” she said.

Powell said people are choosing to stay in their homes for longer, which has also contributed to a reduction in short-term sales across the nation.

Strategic Property Group managing director Trent Fleskens said there was a high correlation between profit made and the value of the suburb coupled with the time of ownership.

“Suburbs like Rossmoyne and City Beach are already high-value suburbs where a 10 per cent gain means a six-figure profit,” he said.

“Escalate this over a couple of decades of owning the family home and it starts to make sense how these homeowners are walking away with seven-figure tax-free proceeds from their sales.”

Across the state the south-west regional centres outpaced all other regional property markets in the June 2024 quarter, according to new data from REIWA.

Busselton led the way with its median house sale price rising 6 per cent to $795,000, up from $750,000 in the March quarter.

It was followed by Bunbury, which saw a 5.5 per cent increase in its median house sale price to $517,000.

REIWA President Joe White said the battle for top position between Busselton and Bunbury had been ongoing since the September 2023 quarter.

White said while market activity tended to slow during the winter months, segments of the market remained active.

“Our members in Busselton and Bunbury report properties priced between $600,000 and $800,000 saw the most activity over the quarter, with investors and first-home buyers still driving activity in this segment of the market,” he said.

“Houses in this price bracket continue to sell quickly, as buyers look for value for money.”

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Mike Lynch 'tried to sell superyacht months before sinking which claimed his life'

Mike Lynch considered selling his superyacht months before it sank off the coast of Sicily but changed his mind after his acquittal, according to a report.

The tech tycoon, 59, was among six people who died when his superyacht , named the Bayesian, sank at around 5am on Monday near Porticello during a tornado.

Mr Lynch had put the £30 million yacht up for sale in March this year but withdrew it from the market in July, the Telegraph reported.

He had planned to spend the summer on board the boat and then review the decision to sell in the autumn, industry sources told the newspaper.

Mr Lynch, who founded software giant Autonomy in 1996, was cleared in June of carrying out a massive fraud relating to its £8.64 billion sale to US company Hewlett Packard. The boat trip was a celebration of his acquittal.

Following the ruling, Mr Lynch said he was "elated" and looking forward to returning to his family and his estate in Suffolk.

Mr Lynch, his daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy Bloomer, Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo, and his wife Neda Morvillo were lost when the Bayesian sank.

His wife, Angela Bacares, 57, survived the disaster.

Fifteen people including a one-year-old baby escaped the tragedy on a lifeboat.

The body of Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas, who was working as a chef on the yacht, was recovered at the scene of the sinking on Monday.

Inspectors from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) are looking into what happened because the Bayesian was flying a British flag .

Prosecutors in the nearby town of Termini Imerse have also opened an investigation into the tragedy.

Giovanni Costantino, founder and chief executive of The Italian Sea Group, has described the Bayesian as “one of the safest boats in the world” and denied suggestions that the boat’s construction was at fault.

Meanwhile on Thursday, the Bloomer family described the couple as “incredible people and an inspiration to many".

They said: "We are grieving for our loved ones and all of those affected by the tragedy.

"Our parents were incredible people and an inspiration to many, but first and foremost they were focused on and loved their family and spending time with their new grandchildren.

"Together for five decades, our only comfort is that they are still together now.

"This is an unimaginable grief to shoulder."

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Divers recover 5 bodies from wrecked superyacht off Sicily; 1 still missing

APTOPIX Italy Boaters Missing Italian firefighter scuba divers bring ashore, in the green bag, the body of one of the victims from the British-flagged vessel Bayesian, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. The yacht was hit by a violent sudden storm and sank early Monday, while at anchor off the Sicilian village of Porticello near Palermo, in southern Italy. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli) (Salvatore Cavalli/AP)

PORTICELLO, Sicily — (AP) — Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of five passengers Wednesday, leaving one still missing as questions intensified about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.

Rescue crews brought four body bags ashore at Porticello. Salvatore Cocina, head of the Sicily civil protection agency, said a fifth body had been located. Divers on-scene said they would try to recover it on Thursday while continuing the search for the sixth.

The discovery made clear the operation to search the hull on the seabed 50 meters (164 feet) underwater had quickly turned into a recovery one, not a rescue, given the amount of time that had passed and with no signs of life over three days of searching.

The Bayesian, a 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged yacht, went down in a storm early Monday as it was moored about a kilometer (a half-mile) offshore. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout.

Fifteen people escaped in a lifeboat and were rescued by a nearby sailboat. The body of the ship's chef, Recaldo Thomas of Antigua, was recovered Monday.

Thomas was born in Canada, according to his cousin David Isaac, but visited his parents’ homeland of Antigua as a child, and moved permanently to the tiny eastern Caribbean island in his early 20s. Italian officials previously listed Antigua and Canada as the nationality of people on board.

The fate of six missing passengers had driven the search effort, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch , his 18-year-old daughter and associates who had successfully defended him in a recent U.S. federal fraud trial.

Lynch’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Termini Imerese Public Prosecutor's Office investigators were acquiring evidence for their criminal investigation, which they opened immediately after the tragedy despite no formal suspects having been publicly identified.

Questions have abounded about what caused the superyacht, built in 2008 by Italian shipyard Perini Navi, to rapidly sink, when the nearby Sir Robert Baden Powell sailboat was largely spared and managed to rescue the survivors.

Giovanni Costantino, head of The Italian Sea Group, which owns the ship maker, blamed human error for the disaster, which he said took 16 minutes. “The ship sank because it took on water. From where, the investigators will say,” he told RAI state television after he met with prosecutors.

Costantino cited AIS ship tracking data which he said showed the Bayesian had taken on water for four minutes when a sudden gust of wind flipped it and it continued taking on water. The ship straightened up slightly and then went down, he said.

But was it merely the case of a freak waterspout that knocked the ship to its side and allowed water to pour in through open hatches? What was the position of the keel, which on a large sailboat like the Bayesian might have been retractable to allow it to enter shallower ports?

“There’s a lot of uncertainty as to whether it had a lifting keel and whether it might have been up,” said Jean-Baptiste Souppez, a fellow of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects and the editor of the Journal of Sailing Technology. “But if it had, then that would reduce the amount of stability that the vessel had, and therefore made it easier for it to roll over on its side,” he said in an interview.

The captain of the sailboat that rescued survivors said his craft sustained minimal damage — the frame of a sun awning broke — even with winds that he estimated reached 12 on the Beaufort wind scale, which is the highest hurricane-strength force on the scale.

He said he had remained anchored with his engines running to try to maintain the ship’s position as the forecast storm rolled in.

“Another possibility is to heave anchor before the storm and to run downwind at open sea,” Karsten Borner said in a text message. But he said that might not have been possible for the Bayesian, given its trademark 75-meter (246-foot) tall mast.

“If there was a stability problem, caused by the extremely tall mast, it would not have been better at open sea,” he said.

Yachts like the Bayesian are required to have watertight, sub-compartments that are specifically designed to prevent a rapid, catastrophic sinking even when some parts fill with water.

The underwater search continued in dangerous and time-consuming conditions. Because of the wreck’s depth, which requires special precautions, divers working in pairs could only spend about 12 minutes at a time searching, though reinforcements outfitted with special equipment to enable longer dives were on the wreck Wednesday.

In all, some 27 divers took rotations, including four who helped with recovery after the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster off Tuscany. They called the Porticello wreck a “little Concordia,” fire crews said in a statement.

The limited dive time was aimed in part at avoiding decompression sickness, also known as the “bends,” which can occur when divers stay underwater for long periods and ascend too quickly, allowing nitrogen gas dissolved in the blood to form bubbles.

“The longer you stay, the slower your ascent has to be,” said Simon Rogerson, the editor of SCUBA magazine. He said the tight turnaround time suggested the operation's managers were trying to limit the risks and recovery time after each dive.

“It sounds like they’re operating essentially on no decompression or very tight decompression, or they’re being extremely conservative,” he said.

Divers were also working with debris floating around them, limited visibility and air tanks on their backs.

“We are trying to advance in tight spaces, but any single thing slows us down,” said Luca Cari, spokesman for the fire rescue service. “An electric panel could set us back for five hours. These aren’t normal conditions. We’re at the limit of possibility.”

Winfield reported from Rome and Kirka from London. Associated Press journalists Trisha Thomas in Rome; Andrea Rosa in Porticello; and Anika Kentish in St. John’s, Antigua, contributed to this report.

This story has been corrected to reflect that Thomas was born in Canada, not Antigua.

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