• Tweet At Google one of our key philosophies is to take risks and to experiment. To that end, in July 2009 we announced the ability to find property for sale or rent directly on Google Maps. This is one of the “search options” next to the search box on Google Maps, and is currently available [&hellip

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  • Tweet LABOR’S push to cut greenhouse gas emissions through the use of energy efficiency schemes was yesterday dealt another blow when building industry heavyweights discredited the star ratings being applied to hundreds of thousands of homes. Investigations by the building industry have found that the mandatory star ratings scheme is inaccurate and fundamentally flawed. The [&hellip

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  • Tweet A large California based real estate brokerage with more than 700 agents has announced a joint venture with a major international real estate franchisor this week. Altgera Real Estate is forming a new company, Harcourts Pacific, with New Zealand based franchisor Harcourts International which has more than 630 offices and more than 4,000 agents [&hellip

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  • Tweet The housing industry has lashed out at the Reserve Bank’s rate rise today, claiming it will discourage the construction needed to relieve the nation’s housing affordability crisis. One developer went further, claiming future rate hikes threatened to trigger a collapse of Melbourne’s housing market. The RBA lifted interest rates to 4.5 per cent from [&hellip

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  • Tweet The man who predicted the global credit collapse of 2007 has warned that Australia’s housing bubble is ripe to burst at any time. US investment banker Edward Chancellor has told the Australian newspaper our economy is yet to emerge from the global financial crisis. Mr Chancellor, who works for GMO, estimates Australian house prices [&hellip

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