Google, Fairfax and News Ltd jostle for real estate onlineFairfax and News Ltd want to protect their online real estate cash cows now that Google will offer a free property listing service on Google Maps. Would they dare to stop paying for key search terms?
Real estate
The next big problem for US banks
Their problems with home mortgages, foreclosures and bad corporate loans show no sign of improving. Now US banks face fresh trouble, with the $US6.7 trillion commercial property sector.
Watergate on the market
The Watergate Hotel may have lost its lustre years ago, but with the the national landmark set to go under the hammer on Tuesday, in real estate circles, the phones are running hot.
Google barges in to the real estate market
The Australian division of internet search giant Google yesterday introduced real estate listings on Google Maps in a move that is set to shake-up the online listing sector.
BIS Shrapnel’s property confidence is … BS
When the First Home Owner’s Grant falls away and if interest rates return to 7-8%, it is a more logical response that house prices will fall in the coming years, rather than rise.
Neverland’s thrifty new look
More than 80 workers have been making over Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch to convert the former money pit into a lucrative asset, repairing the property while removing some of the more gaudy excesses — like orangutans.
US housing market still boarded up
The American markets continue to ignore the ever widening black hole in housing.
Home boom props up the economy
Why Australians should be thanking the developing boom in new home building.
End of the Great Australian Dream starts in Sydney
Sydney house prices have blown out to such a degree that the Great Australian Dream is fast becoming the Great Australian Fantasy.
First home owners grant must go
The first home buyer;s boost was the worst thing to ever happen to first home buyers.
Crikey Counterpoint: the Australian property market
Australia’s residential property market delivered a resilient performance during the first quarter, with the RP Data-Rismark National Dwelling Value Index rising 1.6%, writes Christopher Joye. Poppycock, says Adam Schwab.
Tips and rumours: Q&A with the Australian Jockey Club
As an attendee of last week’s AJC Extraordinary General Meeting, one can only give it one positive spin — it lived up to its title of being “extraordinary”.
An optimist’s response to Professor Keen
Amateur economist and optimist Peter Johns responds to Steve Keen.
