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Victoria 

Chris Tarrant and Wife Lauren to Auction Armadale Home Today

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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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Victoria 

Alannah Hill Stitches $1.68 Million From St Kilda Apartment Sale

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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.

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Victoria 

David Parkin to Sell Mothers House, Hawthorn

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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.

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Chris Newman
Victoria 

AFL’s Chris Newman to Sell Port Melbourne Townhouse

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Chris NewmanTHE 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.

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Victoria 

Ex-Kangaroo Shannon Grant to Sell Mordialloc Beach Front Property

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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.
 

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Victoria 

Rose Porteous to Sell Toorak Pad, Again

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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.
 

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Ava Gardner & Frank Sinatra
Victoria 

Ava Gardner & Frank Sinatra’s South Yarra Hideaway Listed For Sale

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Ava Gardner & Frank SinatraTHE 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. 

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Victoria 

Interior Designer David Hicks Pays $3 Million For St Kilda Road Apartment

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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.

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Stewart Loewe
Victoria 

Stewart Loewe to Sell Brighton Townhouse

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Stewart LoeweFORMER 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.

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