• Melbourne couple Adam and Lisa Dixson cooked on a public barbecue in the park across the road for more than a year while they were renovating their house to “flip” — the capital city trend which has become popular with property hunters looking to ride the housing market boom.

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Lisa Dixson and her husband Adam recently ‘flipped’ for $1.6m a Yarraville house in Melbourne’s west that they bought in late 2014 for $771,000. Picture: Aaron Francis