IT has been another busy week in Melbourne’s outer north, with one company announcing a major $45.8 million acquisition of a residential development site in Craigieburn, and another launching a $60 million housing estate in nearby Mernda.

In the biggest deal, Sydney-based developer Stockland has acquired a 100 hectare development site abutting its hugely successful Highlands development, about 35 kilometres north of town.

The acquisition is the latest in a string for Stockland, which in February paid $58 million for two sites totalling 117.4 hectares in Wollert, not far from Craigieburn.

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