Larissa Dubecki

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

Other members of the PR industry were horrified when Angela Ceberano moved her boutique agency from South Yarra to Collingwood 10 years ago. Admittedly, she was an early inner-north adopter – back then, its hip status was just a glint in a tattooist’s eye – but nonetheless it was widely seen as the gritty mean streets of Melbourne. “A lot of people in my circle were shocked,” says the founder of Flourish PR. “But I used to live in Newtown in Sydney, and it reminded me of that.

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

Leading Australian choreographer Phillip Adams was at a crossroads with his dilapidated Victorian workers’ cottage on an inner-western Spotswood street. Either the house had to go, or he would. “There was nothing between me and the floorboards. The verandah had fallen down. I’d lived there for 10 years, and it was a bit of a mess,” says the avant-garde all-rounder who has worked across the fields of design, fashion, photography, film and the visual arts.

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

Ballarat’s boom might be over, but it’s certainly not bust. After soaring to unprecedented real-estate heights in the pandemic era, its median house price has settled at a comfortable $507,000. This is a good 24.4 per cent increase over the past five years, but still affordable for people who don’t have a trust fund at their disposal. “We’re happy again,” says Dominic Morrison of Ballarat Real Estate.

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

It’s one of Melbourne’s historical curios that the Prahran Market has a South Yarra address. Eyeballing Prahran directly across Commercial Road, the market reflects broader South Yarra with a quorum of stalls sitting at the intersection of living and lifestyle – look no further than the toe-curlingly good toasties at cheesemonger Maker & Monger, which are a Rorschach blot in food form: an occasional treat for some and a non-negotiable every week for others.

4 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Pauline Morrissey |Larissa Dubecki

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