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	<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Ray White&#8217;s sales up 20 percent</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/17/ray-whites-sales-up-20-percent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Australasia&#8217;s largest real estate and property group, Ray White, has reported a 20 per cent improvement in its residential and commercial sales results in Australia and New Zealand for February, 2010.
Ray White Chairman Brian White said preliminary figures showed the group in February achieved total sales of $2.310 billion, compared to $1.934 billion in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAMS joins with real estate data provider Residex</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/15/rams-joins-with-real-estate-data-provider-residex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/15/rams-joins-with-real-estate-data-provider-residex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage provider RAMS Home Loans has joined with real estate data provider Residex to give property investors access to residential sales information.
Westpac-owned RAMS said the partnership would allow prospective investors to access Residex reports once they identify what suburb or suburbs they are interested in.
The reports include information such as median sale price, median rent, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney property prices tipped to rise by up to 10pct</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/11/sydney-property-prices-tipped-to-rise-by-up-to-10pct/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/11/sydney-property-prices-tipped-to-rise-by-up-to-10pct/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[REBAA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sydney House Prices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Property prices in Sydney&#8217;s inner and middle rings could rise by up to 10 per cent this year.
The Real Estate Buyer&#8217;s Agents Association of Australia (REBAA) said much depended on the effect of rising interest rates and tighter loan conditions.
But property prices will rise in key centres in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Australian Real Estate Widgets Launched</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/11/new-australian-real-estate-widgets-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/11/new-australian-real-estate-widgets-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Kent Lardner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taking inspiration from the success of Zillow and Trulia&#8217;s ‘cool&#8217; web site widgets, PriceFinder has recently released its own range of agent website tools for Australia. Widgets are an easy way to enhance your own website, increasing traffic and generating leads.
According to Kent Lardner, Chief Operating Officer of PriceFinder;

&#8220;Your web site visitors can now search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bligh outlines new land tax regime</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/09/bligh-outlines-new-land-tax-regime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/09/bligh-outlines-new-land-tax-regime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Anna Bligh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Land Tax Laws]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Valuation of Land Amendment Bill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A compromise has been reached on new land tax laws set to pass state parliament this week ahead of a new land tax regime to be drawn up with industry and brought in next year, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says.
Amendments to the Valuation of Land Amendment Bill, due to be debated last month, were delayed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Record February For Ray White In Victoria</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/04/record-february-for-ray-white-in-victoria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/04/record-february-for-ray-white-in-victoria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Australasia&#8217;s largest real estate and property group, Ray White, has recorded its best ever February residential sales result in Victoria.
Ray White Victorian General Manager Marcus Williams said preliminary statewide sales figures for February totalled in excess of $350 million - a 58 per cent increase on sales for the corresponding month in 2009.
Mr Williams said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New home sales rebound to 5mth high, HIA says</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/01/new-home-sales-rebound-to-5mth-high-hia-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/03/01/new-home-sales-rebound-to-5mth-high-hia-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales of new homes rebounded to a five-month high in January, a sign that upgrading owner occupiers and investors may be coming back in to the market, a leading industry body says.
New homes sales rose 9.5 per cent to 8,444 in January, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) said on Monday.
Sales rebounded from December&#8217;s 11 month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home prices continue to grow strongly</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/28/home-prices-continue-to-grow-strongly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/28/home-prices-continue-to-grow-strongly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Joye]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[House Prices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RP Data-Rismark]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new survey has shown home prices grew more strongly than expected in January, giving the Reserve Bank of Australia further ammunition to raise interest rates.
However, annual house price growth should moderate to single-digits in 2010 from the low to mid teen levels last year.
Across all capital cities home prices rose an average 1.8 per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing affordability tanked in December quarter-HIA</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/22/housing-affordability-tanked-in-december-quarter-hia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/22/housing-affordability-tanked-in-december-quarter-hia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Soaring house prices, rising interest rates and a winding back of the first homeowners grant all contributed to housing affordability taking a nose-dive at the end of 2009.
The deterioration was widespread in all capital cities and regional areas, with the largest falls recorded in Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra, according to a Housing Industry Association (HIA)/Commonwealth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Property industry in uproar over new laws</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/18/property-industry-in-uproar-over-new-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/18/property-industry-in-uproar-over-new-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Valuations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Property Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The property industry is lobbying the Queensland government over changes to land tax which they say are an unprecedented cash grab.
The Property Council and Shopping Centre Council took out a full-page advertisement in The Courier-Mail newspaper on Thursday outlining their argument.
Last week, the government introduced to parliament a bill which Natural Resources Minister Stephen Robertson [...]]]></description>
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