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If you're eyeing a kiosk on the foreshore, a café near a city park, a storage yard on unreserved land, or a community facility run by volunteers, the rules are different on Crown land. This guide walks you through the essentials, using Melbourne examples and language you do not need a law ... Read More

If you have ever fallen for a small acreage on the city fringe, or eyed off a home with a bore out past Cranbourne, you will have bumped into the term 'water entitlement'. It sounds technical, yet it boils down to a simple idea: the right to take and use water, subject to rules that protect river... Read More

If you're overseas and eyeing a place in Melbourne, you're not alone. There's something about the city's tree lined streets, laneway coffee, and the tram bell that makes the idea of putting down roots here feel, well, cosy. Buying as a non resident is entirely possible, though the pathway has a f... Read More

You're renovating, selling, or just trying to answer a simple question like where that old sewer runs, and suddenly you realise you don't have a copy of the original drawings. Pretty normal. Councils do hold a lot of this material and, with the right request, you can usually get what you need. In... Read More

If you live in Melbourne, you'll know the feeling: you're standing in the hallway of a weatherboard in Brunswick, or a red brick in Carnegie, and you wonder when the first family crossed the threshold. That itch to know the backstory is why people jump online and type things like "when was your h... Read More