Larissa Dubecki

1 week ago | domain.com.au | Larissa Dubecki

Richmond is a Melbourne microcosm, offering the same eclectic ambience and attractions as the CBD, minus the parking issues. “The parking is cheaper, the food is better, and you can walk everywhere … why would you go into the city?” asks Philip Vakos, the chef and owner behind Swan Street’s Bahari restaurant.

1 week ago | domain.com.au | Larissa Dubecki

In a Melburnian word association game, Hawthorn immediately evokes the phrase, “the leafy east”. A card-carrying member of the private school belt, just six kilometres east of the CBD, where streets are tree-lined and homes are grand, it’s unquestionably one of the city’s elite suburbs. But there’s much more to Hawthorn than its prestige. “It’s so vibrant,” says Ricky Eden, whose colourful window displays at Panache Flowers are an immediate mood-lifter on Glenferrie Road.

2 weeks ago | domain.com.au | Larissa Dubecki

Never been to Bright? Gerard Gray of Dickens Real Estate is here to paint you a picture: “You just close your eyes and imagine the best of Italy, the rolling hills of England, and parts of Tasmania and New Zealand, all wrapped into one.”It’s the perfect time of year to head to the bustling town in north-eastern Victoria, when the trees turn to the colour wheel’s warm zone. The spectacle draws tourists from all over, but you haven’t missed your chance so late in the season.

2 weeks ago | domain.com.au | Larissa Dubecki

Melbourne’s first suburb remains one of its most colourful. The neat rectangle sitting to the CBD’s north-east offers real estate’s answer to sensory overload for anyone wandering the streets and eyeballing its extravagant mix of multimillion-dollar terrace homes, one-bedroom apartments, public housing towers, warehouse conversions and everything in between. Its 10,431 residents are equally diverse but generally united in their opposition to anything that could be construed as pretentious.

2 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Larissa Dubecki

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Camillo and Monika Ipolliti have done more than most big-name developers to put their stamp on Melbourne’s landscape.