A MAJOR development site offloaded by the State Government six years ago for $2.8 million, has hit the market again, and is expected to sell for almost twice that amount.

The former Box Hill dog pound at the south-east corner of Canterbury Road and Hay Street is being offloaded by retirement village operators, who have decided against building a major 76-unit aged care facility on the site.

The block will be sold with two permits – allowing for an aged care redevelopment, or a more medium density traditional residential development with ground floor shops.

FASHIONISTA Alannah Hill has stitched up $1.68 million from the sale of a three-level St Kilda apartment she bought in 2004 as an impulse buy.

The apartment is built into the walls of an 1888 mansion in trendy Fitzroy Street – a property previously a home to squatters, a brothel, and later a French Consulate.

With a double garage, three bedrooms, wine cellar and a rooftop garden with city views, the apartment was decorated in Ms Hill’s unique style.