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Future of Alfred Deakin’s family home in doubt after auction

The historic Point Lonsdale property held by the family of early Australian prime minister Alfred Deakin for 118 years, passed in at auction. Ballara was listed for sale after a campaign to get Commonwealth support to place the 1.69ha Bellarine Peninsula property into public hands missed a VCAT enforced deadline sought by family members wanting to sell …

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Melbourne first-home buyers fleeing the city’s rental crisis splashing out on $1m-plus homes

Melbourne first-home buyers with $1m-plus budgets and thought to be fleeing the city’s rental market helped drive seven-figure sales across the suburbs yesterday. It comes a day after Real Estate Institute of Victoria president Jacob Caine and PropTrack economist Anne Flaherty revealed those making their first step onto the property ladder had saved Victoria’s winter …

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