Today's Highlights

Californication Eleven, 10.05pm Facing a statutory rape charge, the verdict is finally in for troubled writer Hank Moody. In response to the verdict, Hank (David Duchovny) heads to Charlie��s (Evan Handler) house, where he meets his best friend��s sexually ravenous real estate agent and an old acquaintance who keeps him company.

BRIGHTON

26A Burrows Street Sold undisclosed AGENT KAY & BURTON ASKING PRICE $1.4 MILLION

Agent's fee open to negotiation

IS THERE a standard agent's commission? Most real-estate agents charge a success-based commission for their services,which means they must sell your house in accordance with the contract ��� or sales authority ��� or you don't pay.

Close to the action and heading up

AS A suburb, Ashburton is small but beautifully positioned.

Smart Buys

Darlinghurst

RIVER AND FOREST

$1,250,000 ALBERTON 258 Brewery Road Private sale Agent Garth Lisle Property Consultants, 5678 5878

Love-hate romance ended in bloodshed

THE Chippendale unit was on the market when a real estate agent, about to hold an open inspection, arrived to find "heaps of red liquid on the floor and kitchen bench".

Hunter vote gatherers

Depending on your point of view, there may be only one thing better, or worse, than one Hanson. Two of them. Well, two Seccombes anyway. Pauline Hanson's little brother David Seccombe, 53, is attempting to ride into politics on his sister's coat tails. The siblings are among nine from the Hunter region who have nominated for the Legislative Council under the one banner. Must be something in the water. Many, like Hanson, pictured below, hail from an enclave north of Newcastle based around Nelson Bay. Her brother lives at Salt Ash. Hanson's neighbour at Corlette, the real estate agent Stephen Mulcahy, has joined her on the ticket. The rest, including Hanson's former One Nation national director Brian Burston, Rosalyn Wright and the retired accountant John Cantwell, live around the shores of Lake Macquarie. Hanson has had blanket coverage, spending much of her time telling eager breakfast talk show hosts she is not a racist. Joining her on the ticket is Kate McCulloch, pictured above, a mother of four from Mount Hunter who attracted national attention as the poster girl for Camden's Muslim-shy residents in May 2008 when councillors voted unanimously to reject a proposal for an Islamic school.

REA abusing its power, say small online agents

THE country's leading online property listings company, Real Estate Group, has been accused of abusing its position after two independent agents face being ejected from its website for failing to comply with what they say are unreasonable terms and conditions.

The most serious allegations only hinted at

OMBUDSMAN George Brouwer concludes that The Brotherhood luncheon group is underlined by a culture of "exclusivity and secrecy" that can breed illegal information trading. But how fair is this characterisation?