Aussie buyers obsess over $45m palace, backyard fun park and luxe renos

Visitors to realestate.com.au in October were loving homes that went big on scale, grandeur and fun.House prices may be sliding nationwide, with stretched affordability and higher interest rates squeezing budgets, but you'd never guess it from the properties Australians are clicking on the most.The 20 most-viewed properties on realestate.com.au this month included sprawling acreage estates, luxury villas, heritage mansions and waterfront showpieces.A waterfront Gold Coast mansion was among the most-viewed Australian homes in October. Picture: realestate.com.au/buyEither the very wealthy are untouched by the downturn, or the rest of us are simply craving a little eye candy while the market bites.Victoria again led the list with eight properties, followed by Queensland with five, New South Wales with four and South Australia with three. Not a single apartment made our top 20.Here are this month's standouts.Palatial Sydney estateThe most-viewed property of the month was 'Le Palais', an 11-bedroom, 20-bathroom extravaganza in Dural, a semi-rural suburb on Sydney's northwest fringe, with an eye-popping price guide of $41m to $45m.The scale is monumental. About 4,000sqm of living space a...