FORMER Kangaroos footballer Wayne Carey has returned to Melbourne, despite failing to sell his luxury Gold Coast mansion.

Carey confirmed the move, to the Herald Sun. It is now reported he is looking at an inner-city apartment. His last home in Melbourne was a Beacon Cove apartment in Port Melbourne.

Carey who was reported last year as saying he wanted to move back to Melbourne to be with his daughter, Ella.

FORMER politician Pauline Hanson will sell her country estate in south-east Queensland, ahead of a move to Britain.

The Coleyville home, Serendipity, is set on 147 acres and is about a 20 minute drive from Ipswich. The home is expected to sell for about $1 million, according to real estate agent Keith Edwards.

In the shape of a Y, the timber and brick home includes eight foot wide verandahs and raked cypress pine ceilings.

A North Melbourne property once part-owned by Kangaroos footballer Wayne Carey, is to be replaced with a nine-level student accommodation complex.
 
Early next year, Flemington Road’s Redback Brewery Hotel will be demolished and the site redeveloped as a 240 unit complex.
 
Redback’s profits have dwindled since council’s decision to remove poker machines some years ago, and well after Carey sold his interest.

FORMER bikini model Jodhi Meares is reported to have purchased a luxury home in Hawaii's exclusive Pipeline Beach.

The former wife of James Packer told the Daily Telegraph she will move to the "dream home" in January.

Meares - who was raised  in Melbourne and is reportedly a keen surfer - is expected to keep her Sydney home. The model was employed as lifestyle collaborator for a South Yarra  property project last year. Jodhi previously established the successful swimwear label Tigerlily.

POP star John Farnham  has sold a 107-hectare rural property north of Melbourne.

The Chance Lodge property, in Goornong, is reported to have sold for $2 million. The double storey home includes six bedrooms and four bathrooms and is located on the Campaspe River.

An auction to sell belongings acquired since he bought the property in 1998 is mooted for December 5.

THE eldest son of News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch has paid $23 million for the Le Manoir mansion, in Sydney's eastern suburb of Bellevue Hill.

Last night's closed auction saw the 6-bedroom house, on a 4,000 square metre block sell for well in excess of the anticipated $15 million price.

THE People's Republic of China is expected to take on New Zealand actor Russell Crowe, in bidding for a $15 million Sydney mansion, once used by the French government as a consulate.

The Victoria Road estate, Le Manoir, will be auctioned this evening at an invitation-only event in which prospective buyers have to make a refundable $50,000 deposit, just to make a bid.

FORMER AFL Premiership player Shannon Grant is selling an investment property at 180 Beach Road in Mordialloc.
 
The modest three-bedroom, single level home, on a 653 square metre block, is expected to sell at auction next month for around $1.250 million, according to Hocking Stuart Brighton selling agents Rod Richardson and Stuart Kelso who is auctioning the property at 3:30pm on November 28.
 

FLAMBOYANT socialite Rose Porteous has listed her Toorak home for sale, again.
 
The 60-year old grandmother, who with husband Willie purchased her first Melbourne home in 2005, could reap as much as $7 million for the three-bedroom plus study home, on a 650 square metre block in ritzy Irving Road.
 
Rose paid a reported $4.9 million for the home in July 2007, before undertaking a renovation. The home includes a double height entrance hall with return staircase, formal and informal living and dining rooms, several private courtyards, and a triple car garage.
 

THE South Yarra motel at the centre of a saucy scandal involving Hollywood actress Ava Gardner, and crooner Frank Sinatra 50 years ago, is for sale.
 
Rooms within the St James Motel, at 35 Darling Street, accommodated Ms Gardner and a production crew during the 1959 filming of “On the Beach”, parts of which were shot in Berwick.
 
It was reported Frank Sinatra would often visit Ms Gardner during filming, despite the fact the couple divorced two years earlier.  Sinatra left his wife and three kids in 1951, to marry Gardner – who had already been married twice before. 

INTERIOR designer David Hicks is understood to have paid more than $3 million for a luxury St Kilda Road apartment, built on what was once the site of a rundown office and shopping plaza.
 
Hicks, who was a judge on Channel Nine’s recent television show homeMade, is speculated to have purchased a 3-bedroom apartment at 401 St Kilda Road, a boutique complex developed by Pan Urban, the construction company of business identity and publisher of The Monthly, Morry Schwartz.

FORMER St Kilda footballer Stewart “Buckets” Loewe is tackling Melbourne’s unpredictable housing market, listing for sale a new 3-level townhouse in Brighton.
 
The 41-year old former Saint, who after retiring from football in 2002 turned his famous massive hands to property development, can expect to make between $1.15 million and $1.25 million from the sale of 357 New Street, the latest creation by his development company Progressive Properties.
 
The townhouse includes 3 bedrooms, home theatre room and a double garage, and is within walking distance to the North Brighton shopping strip, the Middle Brighton Pier and the Seacombe Grove Beach.

SPIN King Shane Warne and partner Simone are understood to have paid $3.35 million for a rundown bayside property they plan to demolish and rebuild.

The Victoria Street home sits on a 2,694 square metre block and includes a 70 year old, 4-bedroom clinker brick home. Any development of the site would offer water views, though Port Phillip is more than a kilometre away.

Any new home is expected to include a swimming pool and tennis court, as the Warne's were accustomed to at a Middle Crescent Brighton home they sold a few years ago after separating.

TENNIS ace turned reality TV show judge Mark Philippoussis has quietly sold his waterfront Williamstown townhouse.
 
The Scud put the Waters Edge home on the market in May, after admitting he wasn’t able to upkeep the repayments on the $1.3 million debt.
 
The unique property, which includes a five bedroom townhouse overlooking Port Phillip, and a self contained loft residence built over a double garage at the rear of the block, passed in at auction in July for $775,000. 

THE family home occuped by Hugh Hefner and his wife Kimberley, opposite the famous "Playboy Mansion" in Los Angeles' ritzy Holmby Park has sold for an undisclosed sum.

The 80-year old, 7,300 square foot English style mansion includes five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, and is on a 2.3 acre block of land behind private gates near the prestigious Los Angeles Country Club.