Bondi listing: $1,250 a week for flat with construction noise and works spilling into living area

‘Oversized’ apartment is footsteps away from surf – but renters warned of noise from 7am to 5pm weekdays and 8am to 1pm Saturdays

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Renters are being asked to shell out $1,250 a week to live in a three-bedroom Bondi apartment where scaffolding and boards block almost every window – and there’s construction noise from 7am weekdays and 8am Saturdays.

When Oliver came across the Bondi listing at the weekend – six months into his “gutting” search for a rental for his young family – he was shocked.

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