FASHIONISTA Alannah Hill has stitched up $1.68 million from the sale of a three-level St Kilda apartment she bought in 2004 as an impulse buy.

The apartment is built into the walls of an 1888 mansion in trendy Fitzroy Street – a property previously a home to squatters, a brothel, and later a French Consulate.

With a double garage, three bedrooms, wine cellar and a rooftop garden with city views, the apartment was decorated in Ms Hill’s unique style.

AFL legend David Parkin, and his brother Des, a medical researcher, are selling the Hawthorn home that his belonged to the Parkin family for five generations.

The five-bedroom rendered bungalow at 39 Denham Street is located directly opposite St James Park where the Parkin boys perfected their football, cricket, and lawn bowling skills.

Currently configured as a three bedroom house, with formal and informal dining areas, the 1920s dwelling includes many original features such as a panelled entrance foyer, leadlights, open fire places, beamed ceilings and timber floors.

Shaddap You Face! Would you believe this year marks the 30th anniversary of one of Australia’s biggest hits?

The music producer with the good sense to publish the song, Mike Brady, is now selling his Surf Coast beach house – and in the words of North Carlton performer Joe Dolce, who wrote Shaddup You Face, “it’s-a-nice-a-place”.

Located in Separation Creek, about halfway between Lorne and Apollo Bay, the four year old, unlived in beach house is for private sale at $795,000 through Great Ocean Road Real Estate.

YEAR 2010 will be the last Jet lead singer Nic Cester hears the Australian Grand Prix from his apartment opposite Albert Park Lake.

Because from April 24, when his Fitzroy Street apartment is auctioned, he’ll be relocating to another lakeside home, on Como Lake, in Italy.

The singer-songwriter, who penned the Australian rock classic Are You Going to be my Girl? can expect to make about $750,000 from the sale of his “supremely spacious” three-bedroom unit in the historic George complex, at 129 Fitzroy Street.

THE home that AFL footballer Brendan Fevola’s mobile phone may have been reportedly left, before a controversial picture of model Lara Bingle was circulated, has hit the market.

Richmond captain Chris Newman can expect to make between $600,000 and $660,000 for the double-storey Port Melbourne apartment at 50 Johnston Street, on the corner of Rouse Street, and only a block from the beach

Downstairs features an open-plan living and dining room with a full length courtyard, while upstairs is two bedrooms and the largest bathroom.

FORMER Miss Universe, turned television presenter and Myer “face”, Jennifer Hawkins, is in the market for a new home around the beachside Sydney suburbs of Coogee or Tamarama.

The model is reportedly set to sell the three-level Coogee house she bought 18 months ago for $2.3 million, subsequently removing a 12-metre diseased bangalay tree (which council approved) and hosting a pool party which irked the complaints of neighbours.

Ms Hawkins is reported in the Herald Sun as saying she now wants to buy a joint investment with her carpenter and model boyfriend of six years, Jake Wall.

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.