• When the developers came knocking on the door of a Castle Hill grandmother, they made her a stunning offer.

They’d like to develop her corner block, just over the road from the shops and 200 metres from the site of the upcoming rail station, they told her. And in a rezoned neighbourhood where so many of the other home-owners had banded together to sell amalgamated parcels of land, they’d pay her handsomely.

 

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Ruth

Ruth was verbally offered $26 million for her 2500-square-metre property but she’s not interested in the money. Photo: Wolter Peeters