Laser eye surgery group Medownick has bought the vacant office building from interests associated with TV personality Daryl Somers....

V8 Supercar drive Paul Dumbell has revved up his property portfolio ....

A café popular with Hawthorn's private school mothers sold at auction for $1.005 million....

It was a case of double the auction action last week, as multiple properties on the same streets were snapped up despite difficult market conditions....

"The Minogue family will be watching with interest what becomes of a double-storey B-grade Hawthorn office building for sale..."

"Brendon Doolan and Trevor Henning have sold 1387 Malvern Road..."

"Development sites in prominent locations fetched solid prices during last week's auctions..."

"Once a grungy strip of fish-and-chip shops, Melbourne's Chapel Street is today a modern fashion mecca..."

"In Carlton, Teska Carson sold three renovated, two-bedroom townhouses for $1.51 million."

"In Bayside, the local Sandringham cop shop sold under the hammer for $1.59 million."

"Another piece of Melbourne history was up for grabs last week too, at 1180 Toorak Road, Camberwell."

"On the Mornington Peninsula in Mount Martha, Teska Carson auctioned another high profile property with direct frontage overlooking Port Philip Bay."

"Teska Carson held its first Richmond auction for the year at 77 Bridge Rd, for a ground floor shop leased to clothing store American Republic, and an office/showroom above it."

"In a deal more than a year in the making, a prominent slab of trendy Melbourne suburb Richmond has been sold for $22 million."

"The art deco Alley Building, on the corner of Exhibition Street and opposite the Collins Place twin towers, has been snapped up by a private investor for $10.25 million."

"Aluminium manufacturer Confoil has bought a Bayswater industrial property for $10.2 million."

"A private investor has paid $2.66 million for a Chapel Street shop, bringing the value of shops sold in the popular retail strip recently to almost $20 million."

"The last in a set of shops in Melbourne's Chapel Street has sold for $7 million."

"Fashion retailer Colorado Group has sold the Richmond headquarters of Palmer Corporation for $14 million through agents Teska Carson."

"A French Connection shop on Chapel Street's trendy South Yarra retail strip fetched $7.55 million at auction."