October 2007

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An Education Revolution in Real Estate is Sorely Overdue

Tertiary level training should be a compulsory entry requirement to the Australian real estate industry and negotiation formally taught and examined.

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Junk Mail: Electoral Rubbish

The upcoming Federal election is causing some vendor jitters in deciding when to sell. Vendors are troubled by the election date of November 24, which is a Saturday and real estate agents are doing all they can to avoid auctioning homes on that weekend. At Marquette Turner Estate Agents we have decided to delay all [...]

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Junk Mail is a load of rubbish!

As the environment continues to be one of the most important topics in the world at the moment I am ever fascinated by the increase of junk mail in both home mail boxes and private post office boxes.
The focus of the world has been on increasing the awareness for the need [...]

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Unnecessary Election Jitters

No one wants to have the distraction of an election on their auction day, so real estate agents and vendors have been playing a guessing game as to how to run their auction campaigns to the best effect
Whilst some have abandoned a spring campaign altogether, Michael Marquette of Marquette Turner points out that this favours [...]

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Election round-up: the story so far…

The Howard camp had a difficult weekend with a rift developing between Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull and John Howard over signing the Kyoto protocol and coming under increasing pressure of a broken promise over interest rates.
Meanwhile the Greens and ALP are negotiating a preference-swap deal that leaves Family First out in the cold. But [...]

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Crunch Time – Will Interest Rates Rise on 7 Nov?

November 7 is the day when the Reserve Bank of Australia [RBA] announces the outcome of its decision as to whether there is a new official cash rate. Most analysts think the RBA will have to raise rates by at least 25 basis points. Marquette Turner Managing Director, Michael Marquette is inclined to agree [...]

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