Williamstown’s Gasometer Site Sells After Two Years

WILLIAMSTOWN’s contaminated gasometer site, south west of Melbourne, sold to a developer for a speculated $3.5 million before a scheduled auction, earlier this month.

The new owner is expected to undertake remediation works before marketing a residential project, likely after 2012 sources say.

The spectacularly located 3583 square metre site at 87 – 93 Stevedore Street, near Williamstown’s retail centre, and the waterfront, abuts an open-air car park and supermarket.

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Chris Tarrant and Wife Lauren to Auction Armadale Home Today

AFL footballer Chris Tarrant may be returning to Victoria to see out the rest of his career wearing a black-and-white Guernsey for Collingwood.

But the renowned forward has chosen not to live at the Armadale address he previously used as his Melbourne base – and will instead auction that property today.

Tarrant and his wife, model Lauren Strauss, can expect about $4 million, sources say, from the sale of the Adelaide Street house, which is near the High Street shops and the suburb border of Toorak and Malvern.

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Breathing New Life Into Melbourne’s Landmark Sites

Pentridge Prison, CoburgTHIRTY years ago a three-bedroom house in Thomastown cost more than a three-bedroom house in Fitzroy – that’s testament to how much Melbourne’s attitude to housing has changed.

In the 1970s, to live in Collingwood, Port Melbourne or Yarraville meant to be entrenched in Melbourne’s working class. Houses could languish on the market for months – unsellable, unrentable and not worth fixing up.

Today, to own properties in these and many other particularly inner-city suburbs, is to own the real estate equivalent of a gold mine. Since the 1980s, but especially since the turn of this century, where and how Melburnians want to live has shifted and many disused, derelict but once significant sites have been redeveloped. We look at some of the biggest:

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