Commercial and residential property news
Former Collingwood champion Nathan Buckley surprised the 80-strong crowd at the launch of Colliers International’s new eastern office in Clayton this week by commenting on some of the misadventures of his former teammates this year.
Read moreMAB Corporation and Dexus Property Group distributed awards to real estate agents this month.
Read moreThe City of Casey has welcomed the State Government’s announcement of funding support to assist with providing additional monitoring devices and for immediate remediation work at residences affected by methane gas from the Stevensons Road closed landfill in Cranbourne, and to provide assistance to families affected.
Read morePeet – the developer of Brookland Greens estate in Cranbourne – is preparing to meet the City of Casey for a full explanation of how the situation at the Council’s disused landfill site at Cranbourne could have escalated so rapidly.
Read moreBinks Ford can expect to make $4 million from the sale of the former ETA Foods factory in Braybrook, which it bought but never converted into a dealership.
Read moreTelevision personality Jodhi Meares is part of the design team chosen to turn a former South Yarra rubbish dumping ground into a luxury village, with a focus on glamour and wellbeing.
Read moreThe once-struggling QV shopping centre is almost fully-leased, with one of its biggest new tenants, posh restaurant Duck Duck Goose, set to open late next month.
Read moreSocialite Rose Porteous is selling the Irving Road house she downsized to 13 months ago, after undertaking a massive renovation.
Read moreOne of Bourke Street’s most historically significant properties, the former Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company Building at 673 Bourke Street, sold after auction this week for almost $8 million.
Read moreReece Plumbing has signed one of the biggest suburban office lease deals for the year, taking over the prominent Canon office building, on the corner of Springvale Road and Burwood Highway in East Burwood.
Read moreBoutique designers Plus Architecture have released pictures of its new Wrap Southbank apartment building, to be developed at 133 – 139 City Road, near the corner of Southbank Boulevard.
Read moreResidents of North Brighton may find they are living in the middle of a construction zone later this year, when prominent local developer Gillon Group and Sydney-based listed property giant Abacus Property Group expect to start building a $38 million shopping centre and office building in Bay Street.
Read moreThe first changes to clearway times on busy Melbourne roads will begin today, as part of the Brumby Government’s $113 million congestion plan, Keeping Melbourne Moving.
Read moreDespite selling his interest in the company eight years ago, Victorian Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu was the guest of honour at an event to celebrate Knight Frank’s 100th year at 360 Collins Street.
Read moreConstruction could start as early as next year on the $250-million Ascot Chase community in Ascot Vale, about seven kilometres north-west of Melbourne.
Read moreSouth Yarra developer and investor Michael Yates has paid about $7.5 million for a 1000-square-metre development site at 50-52 Claremont Street, abutting Melbourne High School.
Read moreArchitect Woods Bagot has poached former Green Building Council Victorian executive director David Craven to head its new sustainability division.
Read moreHousing shortages are set to worsen this financial year, putting further pressure on first home buyer affordability, with a new HIA report showing Victoria will be more than 6000 short of the homes needed to sustain its growing population in 2008-09.
Read moreThe number of international students moving to Melbourne may start decelerating over the next few years, but the booming student accommodation market still has some way to go, with Melbourne’s biggest "off-campus" student home placement group saying the supply of apartments has not kept up with demand for more than 10 years.
Read moreMelbourne has been chosen over other capital cities for a 15-hectare training and storage facility for the Federal Government.
Read moreThe grand Toorak mansion where Dame Nellie Melba performed intimate concerts is on the market and could fetch more than $10 million.
Read moreProminent planning barrister Clem Newton-Brown says the window appears to be closing for new coastal developments following the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s decision last week to refuse permits for dwellings on coastal land at Toora, in eastern Victoria.
Read moreAn East Melbourne former finishing school, used to transform 19th-century "ladettes" into ladies, is on the market.
Read moreLess than a year after prominent restaurateur John Che leased the former Bennigans restaurant and bar in Chapel Street to open his latest business, the building is up for sale.
Read morePeak petrol and poor consumer sentiment have not stopped Max Beck and Lindsay Fox from pushing ahead with plans to unveil an American-style "auto mall" this month at Essendon Airport.
Read moreThe Damgar Group is taking a punt on an untapped suburban office market, announcing plans for Creswick Malvern, a $24 million office building in Melbourne’s south-east.
Read moreThe Church of Scientology is close to selling its Russell Street headquarters, as it prepares to leave the CBD.
Read moreGetting into the Port Melbourne spirit this week is the Rutherglen Wine and Spirit Company, which has pre-committed to a 4140-square-metre office warehouse building at Sarchi Property Development’s Lorimer Business Park, opposite Pier 35.
Read moreReal Estate Institute of Victoria board member David O’Callaghan has resigned, saying he has no confidence in the group’s leaders, Enzo Raimondo and Neil Laws.
Read moreThe tallest residential building outside inner-city Melbourne may be developed on South Yarra’s old Fun Factory site, under plans lodged by the site’s joint-venture owners.
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