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Elicia Wallace found living in a townhouse offered unexpected benefits.

The ‘gentle’ yet profitable solution to Melbourne’s housing crisis

A popular style of housing offers more homes in parts of Melbourne where people want to live, and it’s already on the rise.

  • Wes Mountain

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The Moonee Ponds home sold for $7.1 million.

Melbourne school pays $7.1 million to buy house next door

The five-bedroom home has a three-level tower and a swimming pool and once featured on TV crime drama Underbelly.

  • Elizabeth Redman
Bekka in Moonee Ponds.
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Bekka

Family favourite where abundance abounds.

Sweet potato cinnamon scroll pancakes with cream cheese ​​​​​​​​icing.

Convoy

A sleek cafe in a spacious corner site, by the Terror Twilight team.

  • Emma Breheny

‘Not always the smart thing’: Cafe worker recounts citizens arrest after two knife incidents in an hour in Moonee Ponds

Good Samaritans intervened twice on Monday to apprehend two men wielding knives in apparently unrelated situations.

  • Hannah Hammoud and Angus Delaney
Holmes Hall co-owner David Bartl says the pub has been the target of hundreds of complaints.

Inner-north bar ‘relentlessly targeted’ with hundreds of ‘petty’ complaints from residents

The owners of Holmes Hall say they’re exhausted by the “obsessive behaviour” of just two neighbours.

  • Cara Waters
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Horses race past the rising apartment development at Moonee Valley Racecourse.

Many questions surround the $220m Moonee Valley revamp. We put them to the CEO

There’ll be no turning back once the Valley closes later this year for its redevelopment and farewells 40 per cent of its workers. But there are aspects of the project that, for now, remain uncertain.

  • Danny Russell
The family-made food of Philhellene in Moonee Ponds.

Philhellene

Family-run institution for Cretan-influenced feasts.

Five bidders contested the Moonee Ponds auction.

Five first home buyers battle for $720,000 Moonee Ponds townhouse

A rare feature and affordable price range attracted several hopefuls on auction day. It was one of 393 scheduled on Saturday.

  • Jim Malo
Auctioneer Simon Carruthers sells G02/2 Pier Street, Port Melbourne, for $785,000

One-bedroom waterfront apartment fetches $785,000 at auction

Two fierce bidders battled it out for the Port Melbourne pad, which overlooks the historic Princes Pier, sending the sale price well above reserve.

  • Alexandra Middleton