Adelaide hotel operator Patrick Farrugia has purchased a Melbourne serviced apartment building for $56 million. The vendor of 23-33 Lonsdale

One agency to which the Kay & Burton/RT Edgar rivalry means little, is Marshall White. The Armadale-based alternative is likely

A modest Abbotsford home used by producers of TV show Prisoner as a half way house is for sale. The

NEWS LIMITED can expect to make about $12 million from the sale of an outgoing eastern suburbs office site, used for years by its Leader Newspaper staff.

The prominent 8,767 square metre site, on the corner of Whitehorse Road and the busy Railway Parade, in Blackburn, has a total road frontage of 162 metres.

One sixty Whitehorse Road could make way for several types of projects including medium and high density apartments, or offices, with ground floor retail.

After months of speculation, Fairfax Media, publisher of The Age, has confirmed it will move journalists, administrative and executive staff

Movie producer and former Australian Broadcasting Authority member Robert Le Tet and his wife, Jeanette, are believed to have spent

A former Telstra supply branch at Springvale will make way for the Souther Hemisphere’s biggest homemaker centre. The City of

IBM, like Australia Post and Telstra recently, will move staff from the city to the suburbs. The IT group is

Mitcham residents may have won a five year battle to prevent the development of two high rise apartment towers opposite

A North Melbourne pub once part-owned by footballer Wayne Carey is to be replaced with a nine-level student accommodation complex.

Salta Properties has been delivered some good news at last, with residential developer Carlisle Homes leasing 2000 square metres of space at its troubled Nexus Corporate Park in Mulgrave.

A syndicate of private investors said to include former Collingwood footballer Damian Monkhorst is paying c$12.5 million for Richmond’s former

A master-planned village which could have product worth $900 million upon completion is earmarked for Yarraville’s former Bradmill factory. Planning

The on-again-off-again campaign to relocate GTV Nine from its long time 22 Bendigo Street headquarters, may be on again. Sources say

After almost ten years at the helm, CB Richard Ellis Victorian senior managing director Mark Granter will formally hand over management of the day to day business to Matt Haddon this week.

Formula 5000 racer Jon Davison is selling a Kew Federation ahead of a move to town. The son of four-time

Investors will replace first home buyers as the major demand driver from next year according to a Mortgage Choice survey.

Successive interest rate falls since September coupled with boosts to the first home buyer grant, have resulted in a near

Ken Smirk has joined Knight Frank in a move which will see the agent be based at Glen Waverley once

A BURNT out theatre once described as Melbourne’s worst drug den, is being converted into a $25 million luxury apartment complex.

Consumer Affairs Victoria has fined Biggin & Scott’s for operating a Carnegie agency while a director did not have the

The Naval & Military Club will sell its 45 year old city headquarters, two months after obtaining a controversial permit to build a 24-level mixed use building on the under-utilised site.

A Kew home has sold for $12 million – a suburb record price. An IT industry executive is understood to

Former Colliers International chairman Bill McHarg has spoken in depth for the first time about his split from the company

TWO South Yarra development sites worth more than $12 million have sold in the suburb’s former industrial pocket, including the land of the notorious Salt nightclub.

The Church of Scientology will sell its CBD headquarters and relocate to Melbourne’s north west. The religious group can expect

The Dimmeys building in Melbourne’s inner east Richmond has sold and may be redeveloped into a shopping centre in which

Indian billionaire Rakesh Wadhawan is planning a $600 million mixed-use project, at Southbank. The Mumbai-based family business – headed by

Buying a first home in regional Victoria has become more attractive thanks to an additional $3000 bonus, unveiled in the

The skills shortage is having a big impact on the price of using a ‘Tradie’ in Melbourne, with an annual price increase of 8.3 per cent in the 12 months to March.

Buxton Bentleigh has been fined $10,000 for missing an email which cost its client four times that. The Victorian Civil

Queensland based developer and listed property trust QIC has announced a $20 million expansion of its Watergardens Town Centre shopping centre, in the north-western suburb of Taylors Lakes.

Christina Aguilera has been there. So have comedian Magda Szubanksi and sportsman Stuart MacGill. Rumour has it Justin Timberlake and

Boutique real estate agency Woodards last week launched its partnership with the Bionic Ear Institute at a special function held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Who needs for a getaway when your Melbourne home has all the luxuries of a resort and is on the

Metricon has again finished the financial year as Victoria’s largest home builder, with 1,475 starts. Henley Properties followed (1,248), with

THE Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has approved a high rise residential building abutting Melbourne High School. With 100 apartments,

A penthouse at the high-end Melburnian complex has sold for $15.4 million. The price is more than $5m over the

Industry Superannuation Property Trust has sold a 10-level Melbourne CBD car park. The 522 Flinders Lane property collected $38 million.

The Richmond pub still  known as “Barassi’s”, despite the ex-footballer and Victorian of the Year Ron Barassi selling it in

Warringal Shopping Centre in Heidelberg has sold to private investor Tagon for $30 million. The single storey complex on Burgundy

Greg Hocking, co-founder of Melbourne agency Hocking Stuart, is no longer neighbours with his friend and former business partner Andrew

An Avondale Heights man has been charged $52,000 for demolishing a home in a unique Port Melbourne estate. The Melbourne

FORMER pop singer Jason Donavon has sold his Toorak house for about $2.7 million.

Melbourne residential real estate Barry Plant has sold his contemporary Kew family home ahead of a move to Queensland. The

A horse training centre developed by former Hawthorn Premiership captain Don Scott in the mid 1990s is for sale asking

QUEENSLAND-based travel agency Flight Centre is bracing itself for a loss, after deciding to sell the St Kilda Road office building it bought and renovated at the peak of the market 16 months ago.