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Greg and Bronwyn Burgess celebrate winning the auction, as their daughter takes a selfie.

The Fitzroy ‘unicorn’ that won its vendors $2.9m, more than $400,000 over reserve

A pair of downsizers dropped the sum on the unique property, and planned to move from a larger home in the inner east to be closer to the inner-city buzz.

  • Jim Malo

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A new housing estate in Pakenham in Melbourne’s outer south-east, one of the areas targeted in the 10-year plan.

The six new places you’ll be able to build a home in Melbourne

The government is opening up Melbourne greenfields sites to build up to 180,000 homes and will release land around two major suburban train stations.

  • Adam Carey and Broede Carmody
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An old car park above Oakleigh Market is now a double-decker ode to the Greek Islands.

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Monash City Council: What your candidates said

Voters in Monash will choose 11 people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.

  • Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter
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Where we live: The changing face of Victoria’s neighbourhoods

In this series, The Age profiles Victorian suburbs and towns to reveal how they’ve changed over the decades.

Olympia Wine’s rooftop is all blue and white.

This hidden rooftop bar is a dose of Greek island heat during a bitter Melbourne winter

It’s out with sedans and SUVs, in with saganaki croquettes and spritzes, at this former car park in the city’s Greek heartland.

  • Dani Valent
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The “fried sausage roll” (centre) is wrapped in milk bread rolled in panko crumbs.

This self-serve bakery’s sweet-savoury ‘sausage roll’ snack pushes every button

Pick up a tray and try Korean baked goods at this humble but bustling family-run bakery in the ’burbs.

  • Dani Valent
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Oakleigh and Clayton were outer suburbs. They are about to transform into a new CBD

If the plans come to pass, these suburbs – home to Greek and Chinese migrants – will have as many jobs as Melbourne’s CBD currently does. Many residents don’t mind.

  • Melissa Cunningham and Patrick Hatch
A tobacco shop has been firebombed in Oakleigh overnight.

Tobacco store firebombed in second targeted attack

An Oakleigh tobacco store went up in flames after a burning car crashed through the front of the shop. The blaze is expected to be linked to a spate of tit-for-tat arson attacks.

  • Alex Crowe
Specialists from the arson squad investigating the blaze on Wednesday.

Shop torched in another suspected tit-for-tat gang arson attack

A suspicious fire that was lit next to a tobacco shop in Melbourne’s south-east is believed to be linked to an outbreak of tit-for-tat arson attacks over the past few months.

  • Alex Crowe

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