Retiring Labor politician Jenny Macklin moves out of electorate

The retiring Federal Labor politician Jenny Macklin has sold the home in her Melbourne electorate.

Her East Ivanhoe home (above) secured $3.15 million for the member of Jagajaga.

Macklin has now has bought in Parkville.

She's spent $2,075,000 on an upper level apartment in the Fender Katsalidis-designed Arcadia block (below) with her partner Ross Turner.

The apartment has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Macklin had called Ivanhoe East home since the mid 1990s when she paid $365,000 for the 1950s, three bedroom home in 1,415 sqm of native gardens back in 1996, the year she was first elected.

Macklin was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard Governments from 2007 to 2013, having previously been her party's deputy leader from 2001 to 2006.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.