DEVELOPER Burbank Homes has lodged an application to redevelop the Denton Hat Mill factory, in Abbotsford. Sources say the 113-year-old heritage-protected factory will be converted into 20 townhouses, 38 apartments and nine retail shops.

MERCHANT banking heavyweight Keith Tuffley is laughing all the way to the bank, after his five-bedroom mansion in Barry Street, Kew, sold after auction for $5.8 million.

BUSINESS identity Colin Cookes is believed to be the mystery buyer of a $6.8 million apartment in the Royal Domain Towers, on St Kilda Road.

INVESTA Property Group is continuing its push into Melbourne's inner-eastern suburban office market, with plans for a 10,000 sq m commercial building on an Abbotsford site it owns on the banks of the Yarra River.