Former Tabcorp and Southcorp chief executive officer Ross Wilson will sell his landmark Brighton mansion, Blair Athol.

AFL Hall of Fame inductee Gerard Healy has snapped up a house in the Brighton street locals dub "millionaires' row". The former Melbourne and Sydney midfielder turned football commentator is believed to have paid more than $4 million for the home in Kinane Street, one of the suburb's most expensive enclaves.

The days of tennis players renting a luxury home for their stay at the Australian Open are all but gone, according to agents, because rich home owners simply don’t need the money.

THE performance of Melbourne’s southern suburb’s reflects the truism that the rich are getting richer.

Nine of the ten best performing suburbs had annual median house growth of more than 10 per cent, with the best performer, Toorak, increasing by an astounding 33.6 per cent. If you’re aspiring to get into the suburb, you’d better have found an extra $560,000 since last year - with the median house price now $2,230,500, almost double that of Melbourne’s second most expensive suburb, Brighton.

To Melbourne’s bourgeoisies, nothing spells exclusivity like a bathing box.