In 1969 a Bankstown home and land package could be had for less than $140,000 in today’s money. You could buy a 1/4-acre block of land 25km from Sydney’s CBD for the equivalent of $65,900, and a block of land at East Killara, in Sydney’s leafy North Shore, could be bought for less than $154,000 in 2025 dollars.
By Megan Jacobson using footage from the ABC Archives.
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