Four months after the Yarra Community Housing bought the Timber Hardware Exchange centre in Carlton, plans have been lodged to build an 11-storey building for Melbourne's homeless.

A block of flats used in the St Kilda-based television series The Secret Life of Us is on the market.

The grand Toorak mansion where Dame Nellie Melba performed intimate concerts is on the market and could fetch more than $10 million.

Former Colliers International chairman Bill McHarg has spoken in depth for the first time about his split from the company he founded 35 years ago, and what it felt like to take on - and win - a battle with John Howard.