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For 20 years, developers Rory Costelloe and his business partner Tony Johnson were the standard-bearers for housing developments on Melbourne’s fast-growing fringe.

Together, they oversaw Villawood Properties, a group that currently has on foot 20 sprawling housing estates dotting the city’s outer edges, from Cranbourne to Tarneit, Armstrong Creek to Wallan and back to Clyde.

Villawood’s promise of a slice of the great Australian dream at knock-down prices – retold on repeat on commercial radio – has made it incredibly successful. It is…

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