Tony Mokbel’s Former Brunswick Mansion Hits The Rental Market
DIEHARD underbelly fans can live a piece of the underworld lifestyle, with Tony Mokbel’s former family home, in Brunswick, quietly hitting the rental market.
The five bedroom mansion at 9 – 11 Downs Street (pictured, right) was offered for sale early last year, but the listing, nor sale – which settled earlier this year – could be reported because of a recently lifted suppression order.
The new owners are asking $1300 per week for the double-storey home which police believe Mokbel funded through drug activities. The registered owner while he occupied the home was Mokbel’s sister-in-law, Renate.
Ownership of the Brunswick property was transferred to the Attorney General of Victoria in late 2009, under the Confiscation Act 1997.
AS PLANNERS continue to approve major new housing estates in Melbourne’s (until-recently-forgotten) western suburbs, a powerful state motoring body has called on the new state government to build a new major road thoroughfare, for what will be an imminent surge in car traffic.
THREE months after telling Domain he had no intention of doing so, Richard Sheldermine – a member of the Myer dynasty – is selling another subdivided piece of the historic Sorrento property known as The Sisters.
SOME of Melbourne’s most popular hospitality venues – and a major western suburb development site – form part of an $80 million portfolio of properties set to hit the market next month.
COMPOSER, pianist and one-time television personality Paul Grabowsky, is moving out of St Kilda East, in Melbourne.
BALMAIN Trilogy has reported a huge loss on the sale of a beachfront development site at Northcliffe Terrace, Surfers Paradise.
MILLIONAIRE entrepreneur Llloyd Williams has quietly listed for sale a horse stable complex opposite the Melbourne Showgrounds, and near the western boundary of the Flemington Racecourse.
SUBURBS in Victoria accommodate Australia’s wealthiest and poorest average workers.
COMMONWEALTH Bank of Australia has leased 8500 square metres of refurbished office space within the Collins Street building that once acted as Melbourne’s stock exchange.
LEND Lease has launched a new $1 billion mixed use village at Werribee, in Melbourne’s middle-western suburbs.
BAYSIDE developer Gillon Group has quietly acquired a supersite at one of the south-eastern suburb’s busiest corners.
ACTORS Reg Gorman and Judith Roberts are selling a renovated apartment in St Kilda East’s historic Ardoch development.
MUSICAL director, pianist, composer – and inadvertent television personality – John Foreman is selling a waterfront St Kilda West penthouse.
SPOTTING Footscray from the CBD, Geelong, Melbourne Airport, or any building in metropolitan Melbourne with a westerly outlook may be a lot easier from next year.
HISTORIC Balwyn estate Canonbury has hit the market again.
YET another house of worship is deferring to the medium density redevelopment trend.
MELBOURNE’s top-end may be deflating faster than some agents would have you believe.
FOURTEEN per cent, or one in seven dwellings within the City of Yarra council zone is now allocated as public housing.
STAWELL Chambers, the free-standing, historic office that was for years occupied by solicitor Isaac Brott, has sold.
ENERGY broker energywatch.com.au has leased about 2000 square metres of refurbished office space in the historic Melbourne Steamship Company building at 27 – 31 King Street.
WOMENS activewear retailer Lorna Jane has chosen a former city boutique to establish its hundredth store.
NON-bank tenants will fill a historic city office building at 287 Collins Street for the first time.
SYDNEY-based fund manager Dexus Property Group has lodged plans to build a 15-level, 25,000 square metre office building on a forecourt behind its prominent 360 Collins Street office tower in the Melbourne CBD – near the popular Zuffa cafe (pictured).
A PRAHRAN petrol station that was to be redeveloped as a ritzy hotel has sold to developers which plan to rebuild the site as a conventional apartment complex.
REGULAR Grand Prix racegoers may notice the historic and former heritage-protected Avalon mansion, near the 13th turn at the bottom of Albert Park Lake, in Melbourne, has just been demolished.
OLYMPIC rower George Jelbart is selling a renovated two bedroom apartment he bought while at the 2004 Athens Games.
A MEMBER of the Kirby family, which owns media giant Village Roadshow, is selling a penthouse apartment in South Yarra’s Darling Street.
RIVERSIDE Kew and Hawthorn residents share a phenomenon with Williamstown and Footscray residents – whereby eyesore factories on prime waterfront sites are tolerated because “they are better than flats”.
MANNINGHAM City Council will bank almost $9 million from the sale of a 3113 square metre development site opposite Doncaster Shoppingtown (aerial shot, right).
AUSTRALIAN hotel owners Schwartz Family Corporation are selling a major St Kilda Road development site bordering Fawkner Park.
SOUTHBANK’s next prominent apartment skyscraper will rise from 58 Clarke Street, after local developer Vicland purchased the site in an off market deal.
ENTERTAINER Rove McManus has sold his Richmond home for $3.4 million – returning a nifty profit on the $1.9 million he paid in 2003.
PLANS to redevelop Brighton’s historic Khyats Hotel into an apartment village are proceeding.
RECENTLY retired St Kilda footballer Andrew Thompson is selling a fully renovated family home in Melbourne’s ritzy Malvern.
QUEENSLAND-born developer and fund manager FKP has quietly listed another major CBD asset for sale.
STATE government arm VicUrban has paid a speculated $7 million for a major development site in bayside Melbourne – and strategically aligned itself to acquire a much bigger site, next door.
IT’s every first-home-buyers worst nightmare coming true – and the trend may just be starting.
NEWLY appointed Melbourne Football Club captain Brad Green is torpedoing out of Brighton East.
TELEVISION and radio personality Ed Phillips is selling his Murrumbeena pot of gold.
SOCCER legend Mark Viduka is selling an investment property near the Williamstown waterfront.
WITHOUT the previous government’s contentious Melbourne 2030 planning document to refer to, VCAT has canned an ambitious proposal by the owners of South Yarra’s Fun Factory site to make the suburb’s tallest proposed skyscraper, even taller.
AFTER almost eight years of negotiation with various government bodies and the Lorne Golf Course, the development of a major multi-million golf resort is set to begin.
THE Police Association has snaffled a reported $2 million from the sale of a 46.5 hectare block of land abutting the outer north-eastern township of Coldstream.
IT’S back to the drawing board for the owners of Russell Street’s Rido House office, after the Melbourne City Council refused its application to replace it with a 36-level tower.
TRAFFIC in busy Glenferrie Road looks set to intensify if the Boroondara council approves an application to redevelop a dank, part-vacant arcade into a new shopping centre, topped by a 1050 seat arthouse theatre and a 100-seat rooftop cinema.
THE suburb that recently topped a survey assessing Melbourne gentrification levels is continuing to evolve.
FOR Melbourne’s newest millionaire farmer, the west has proven lucky in more ways than one, with Perth-based development giant Golden Group revealed as the buyer to pay $36 million for the Tarneit farm once known as Shanahans House, and later, Wyndham Park.
THE street may share the same name as redundant, pro-development Planning Minister Justin Madden. 
A PROMINENT Docklands development site has hit the market after years of frustration from real estate agents, who claim never to have been given the opportunity to offer the site to their clients.
ANOTHER year, and MAB Corporation is releasing another major Docklands project.
ONE of the Melbourne CBD’s few remaining ghost towers has sold to a Chinese developer for $45 million.
MELBOURNE based developer Grocon has unveiled plans for a carbon neutral apartment complex built entirely from timber.
WESFARMERS owned retail giant, Coles Group, is expected to make about $100 million from the sale of a prominent Bourke Street retail complex in the Melbourne CBD.
GOVERNMENT owned goods and services provider Australia Post is offloading its most prized Melbourne asset – the former Australia Post Mail Centre on the south-west corner of Spencer and La Trobe streets.
MOUNT Macedon is no longer a town without beer.
FIVE months after paying ING a speculated $22 million for the prominent Cheltenham office it was renting (pictured), the City of Kingston council has snared one of Australia’s biggest tour providers as a tenant.
WEATHERING the rise of what it called (in a 1993 Age feature) the “big boy” retailer – boffin retailer The Little Bookroom has leased space on the same block its bullish rival, Angus & Robertson may soon be moving out of, after going into administration last week.
ONE of Melbourne’s bigger mid-suburban office sales this year has quietly taken place in Cheltenham.
