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Google Shelves Controversial Real Estate Listing Initiative

 

  GOOGLE has shelved plans to feature real estate listings within its Google Maps.The company cited low usage for the feature, which is available in the US, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Japan. The feature was launched in 2009, but despite offering free listings, failed to knock off the dominant Australian real estate search engines, realestate.com.au ..
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Focus on Dalby

 
Dalby''s first Settler Henry Dennis could only have dreamed of the massive growth that would come after he first pitched his tent near "The Crossing", a stone''s throw from the existing Town Weir Accompanied only by an aboriginal boy, Dennis arrived at Myall Creek in 1841. He then spent a considerable amount of time surveying the area before finally ..  Read More
 

Rental Shortage in 2011

 
 A CRITICAL shortage of vacant properties has led to sharply rising rents with no relief in sight for tenants this year.

Escalating median rents in the March quarter point to sustained hikes throughout the year, according to Australian Property Monitors’ Rental Price Series Quarterly Report.

Housing affordability, and the shortage and spiralling costs of rental properties across the country will continue to put the squeeze on renters in 2011, the report says. Want to read the full story? Click here

 

Bodie Holland to sell Moonee Ponds Terrace

 

RECENTLY retired Collingwood footballer Brodie Holland, and his wife, model, Sarita Stella-Holland, are set to outgrow their Moonee Ponds terrace.The couple are expecting twin boys later this year, and with nine month old daughter Stevie, are looking for something bigger.Their outgoing home, in Normanby Street, in Moonee Ponds, is now for sale with ..  
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