How to buy forever land in Sydney for $145k

Even in death, Sydney’s brutal property market doesn’t let up, with an unused ocean-facing burial plot at Waverley Cemetery listed for a staggering $145,000. Even Sydney’s dead are copping the city’s housing crisis, with an unused burial plot in Waverley Cemetery hitting the market for a jaw-dropping $145,000. In a listing that sounds more eastern suburbs trophy asset than final resting place, the ocean-facing site is being privately offered for the first time in decades, with the family behind it reluctantly deciding to sell. Marketed via Facebook Marketplace as a rare perpetual-tenure plot in one of Sydney’s most prestigious cemeteries, the double-depth burial site comes with room for two coffins and up to nine urn interments. And yes, for that price, you’d at least hope for a view. According to the ad, the plot is a completely unused “virgin site” with “spectacular views across the Pacific Ocean”. MORE NEWS ‘Disgraceful’: Families told to surrender backyards Cruise ship retirement dream hits Centrelink pension reality Woman loses claim to home promised by dying parents The double-depth burial site comes with room for two coffins. “The combination of its setting, perpetual tenure...