Melbourne Commercial Property News

Aficionados of quality imported Italian goods have the chance to create the ultimate top-shelf Carlton North conversion.

The site of swanky South Yarra nightclub and celebrity hot spot The Emerson has sold.

Long before it was a bustling retail strip in the heart of Mornington Peninsula, it was an historic cinema and then a dance hall where American soldiers were known to kick up their heels. 

Childcare, fuel and fast food dominated more than $38 million worth of sales at Burgess Rawson’s Investment Portfolio Auction in Melbourne on Wednesday.

The weekly ritual of shopping for family essentials might be all it takes to persuade a cashed-up investor to swoop on a sprawling retail package now up for grabs in Melbourne’s east. 

Property giant Dexus has thrown down the gauntlet to rivals in the Victorian capital by lodging plans for a premium grade office tower on the Collins St site it assembled last year amid suggestions that it has opened talks with the venerable Melbourne Club about buying its air rights.

Filmmaker and artist Maggie Fooke has reeled in a buyer for the Fitzroy mansion she ran as the Brooklyn Arts Hotel.

Power lunches could soon be replaced by midday yoga, pilates or ballet-inspired barre sessions at Melbourne’s premier business address, 101 Collins Street, where an entire floor of carparking has been revamped to make way for a new state-of-the-art holistic wellness centre.

Top local and international developers are readying for the offer of one of the largest ever sites in Melbourne’s CBD that is set to be offloaded by VicTrack next to the city’s railyards.