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Agents attack listing website

The www.findmeahome.com.au listings website has come under criticism from NSW real estate agents for inaccurate information and underquoted prices. The site, which provides independent pricing, free ratings and attributable data…. read more
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NSW rental crisis will get worse

New South Wales residents are being warned the record number of people defaulting on their mortgages will add to the state’s rental crisis.more
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Estate agent discovers $1m cannabis crop

POLICE discovered cannabis worth almost $1 million in Beverley Hills thanks to an alert real estate agent.Hurstville police crime manager, Detective Inspector Terry O’Neill, said the agent had gone to a house in King Georges Road at 5.30pm last Thursday because of a problem with the rent. more
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Property boom in a ghetto reborn

Peter Gibbs bought a four-bedroom house for $120,000 in a city where the median price is about double that. Next door, his 80-year-old neighbour and friend, John Hill, is to be uprooted after 40 years in his public housing home to create another bargain for a private owner/occupier. more
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Building slump swings to the ’60s

APPROVALS to build private homes in NSW have plunged to their lowest level in nearly half a century, new figures show.
Amid higher borrowing costs and high home prices relative to incomes, 1150 private houses were approved in NSW last month, the lowest number since 1964, discontinued figures from the Bureau of Statistics obtained by UBS [...]

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State Government’s plan for 160,000 new homes ‘hot air’

AS families struggle paying peak prices for rents due to record low housing levels, the State Government’s grand plan for new cities containing 160,000 homes is gathering dust.
Not one sod of dirt has been turned on Sydney’s promised lands, despite the Government guaranteeing the first homes by 2007. read more
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Beechwood faces liquidation by end of day

Collapsed New South Wales building company Beechwood Homes is set to be liquidated if it is not sold by the end of business today.
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Port Macquarie development hits opposition

A controversial proposal to develop a 400 site mobile home estate on Port Macquarie’s North Shore is likely to meet strong opposition today.
Council staff have found 19 reasons to recommend against the proposal.
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How Ilse’s rent went from $240 to $620

SYDNEY’S rental crisis has forced Ilse Huber, 83, who fled the Holocaust, into a terrible countdown. What will end first, her life savings or her life?
Mrs Huber was forced out of the Elizabeth Bay unit she had lived in for 39 years after the building’s owner sold it to a developer. She was given four [...]

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owners to embarrassed to advertise

PEOPLE struggling with huge mortgages in wealthy suburbs are selling their multi-million-dollar properties on the quiet so business associates and neighbours don’t know they are in financial strife.
Daniel Baran, from Place estate agents in Sydney’s prestigious Double Bay, said in the past year his agency had made about 10 sales with no newspaper or Internet [...]

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