Showing posts with label Hooker-Rex Sales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hooker-Rex Sales. Show all posts

Saturday, 8 August 2026

Property Advert of the Week: Killarney Heights Land Release (1964)

Below is a 1964 newspaper advertisement promoting 150 homesites on offer at Killarney Heights. The homesites on offer started from £2100 ($4200), which, according to the RBA Inflation Calculator, was equivalent to spending around $74 200 today.

Killarney Heights Land Release Ad June 5 1964 The Sun 55

Source: Hooker-Rex (Sales). 1964. "Killarney Heights Middle Harbour Foreshores" (Advertisement). The Sun, June 5:55. 

Saturday, 9 October 2021

Property Advert of the Week: Grantham Heights Estate, Seven Hills (1966)

Below is a newspaper advertisement from 1966 promoting the sale of homesites at Seven Hills in the Grantham Heights Estate. £95 pounds ($190)  was required for a deposit or could be purchased outright from £1225 ($2500).

Access to the estate was via Harwood Street. 

Grantham Heights February 12 1966 daily telegraph 44

Source: Hooker-Rex (Sales). 1966. "Grantham Heights Seven Hills" (Advertisement). The Daily Telegraph, February 12: 44. 

Saturday, 13 March 2021

Property Advert of the Week: Hooker-Rex Land Sales Advertisement (1966)

Below is a newspaper advertisement from Hooker-Rex dating from 1966. Three blocks of land were on offer at Kendall Street, Sans Souci and nine blocks of land at Cross Street, Baulkham Hills.  

Only a £70 deposit ($140) was required.

  Hooker Rex Sales Ad october 1 1966 daily telegraph 50

Source: Hooker-Rex Sales. 1966. "Select your site now" (Advertisement). The Daily Telegraph, October 1:50. 

Note: Advertising in pounds, shillings and pence was permitted for two years following the introduction of decimal currency in 1966.