Floating houses and motels could be built on the Port River, if an Adelaide property developer is given permission to use the water for a residential project. Greg Toop has developed a plan involving potentially hundreds of floating properties between the Birkenhead Bridge and the West Lakes outlet in Adelaide's west.

It used to be Hollywood that staged red-carpet premieres to promote blockbuster movies. Now, real-estate developers in Australia are using the same tactics to sell glitzy apartments to Asia’s rich.

A South Australian real estate agent who unlawfully sold a house to an employee — his sister — had no intention to commit the offence and did not gain financially from the sale, a court has heard. Nabil Chehade, 39, appeared in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court on Tuesday for sentencing submissions over allegations that, in 2013, he sold a client’s four-bedroom, one-bathroom, two-car-garage property to his brother-in-law and sister Yahya and Safa El Haj for $275,000.