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Despite a big lift in median profits, local agents say it hasn’t been all sunshine for the Byron area.

The sea- and tree-change towns where property profits rose most

Profits for home sellers have increased by hundreds of thousands of dollars in the most popular regional areas over the past five years.

  • Jim Malo

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Koji Bird is located in the Reed & Co gin distillery in Bright.
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Koji Bird

Wood-fired izakaya in a glam distillery.

The Barn is a cosy space that sleeps four.

At this High Country retreat, Saturday morning never felt so good

Call it madness, call it life-affirming – there’s plenty on offer in the old one-two of a hot-cold whammy.

  • Belinda Jackson
House prices in the Alpine and Indigo shires have soared.

‘Stunning scenery’: Victorian tree-change towns where house prices doubled

House prices don’t always double in a decade, but they have in several tree-change towns where buyers are moving for a better lifestyle.

  • Shona Hendley
The cycling-themed Bright Velo hotel.

High Country’s hottest new stays linked by tasty cycling trail

An old gold-rush pub and a former asylum are two buzzy accommodations, best connected via a two-wheeled picnic.

  • Belinda Jackson
Rents have eased in the Alpine shire.

The once-booming Victorian towns where rents are at a discount

Rental growth in regional areas is slowing or falling as higher costs price out many tenants and some tree-changers return to the city.

  • Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
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Hara House Bright and its old school kidney-shaped pool.

This old-school Victorian motor inn is now fun and fabulous

Following a serious facelift, this former motel near Bright in north-east Victoria has morphed into a swish boutique hotel.

  • Sue Wallace
Bright Velo: A cycling-themed hotel on Bright's main street makes perfect sense.

Bright Velo: The Victorian 'Alps' welcomes cosy new cycling themed lodge

A cycling-themed hotel on Bright's main street makes perfect sense.

  • Belinda Jackson
Voting in Victoria has its hazards.

Voter fury over ballot blunder: ‘How could they not have enough?’

A shortage of printed ballot papers left some people unable to vote at the election.

  • Benjamin Preiss
In some parts of regional Victoria, the median house price is north of $1 million.

Making a sea-change to regional Victoria? That’ll be $1 million

Million-dollar houses were once the exclusive domain of blue-chip inner Melbourne, but the number of regional postcodes with a median house price of $1 million or more is on the rise.

  • Melissa Heagney-Bayliss

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