Surgeon Angus Hamer – and nephew of prominent former State Liberal leader Sir Rupert Hamer - is selling a 3-hectare estate in Eltham South, after 25 years.

Communications company NSC Group is the latest tenant to move closer to the CBD, leaving an office building at 23-27 Wellington Street, St Kilda, to lease a 500 sq m unit at the Hallmarc Business Park in Southbank.

Australia’s largest building industry association, the Housing Industry Association, is pleased the Victorian Government has embraced a consultative approach on working towards developing broader residential standards for new homes by 2010.

The architect behind an apartment and townhouse development which backs onto the Western Ring Road in Sunshine West expects the success of the project to drive a wave of inquiry from land owners, who may not have thought of development as an option.