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						<title>Blue Chip probes continue - liquidators</title>        
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						<description>Investigations continue into possible breaches by directors of Blue Chip companies of reckless trading and other breaches of provisions of the Companies Act, liquidators Meltzer Mazon Heath say.In the latest six-monthly updates...</description>
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						<title>Buyers jostling for real estate eyesore</title>        
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						<description>Supermarket, retirement and healthcare businesses are lining up to buy Soho Square, Ponsonby&apos;s Strategic Finance-funded five-level eyesore.The fate of Strategic, which went into receivership on Friday, hinges partly on the sale...</description>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>It&apos;s hard labour to own a house</title>        
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						<description>The average Kiwi has to work nearly three times harder to pay off the average house than they did 50 years ago.Figures compiled by Bernard Hickey of interest.co.nz show that to pay for the average home of $350,000, someone on...</description>
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						<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>Martin Hawes:  Depreciation loses lustre</title>        
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						<description>Politicians are not saying so yet, but it looks certain that, quite soon, property investors will not be able to claim depreciation. There is a national debate on this already, and I thought maybe it was a good idea to remind ourselves...</description>
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						<title>Shortage fuels house price rises</title>        
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						<description>SYDNEY: Australian home prices will keep rising due to a building and land shortage, according to a unit of the Property Council of Australia.About 200,000 homes are needed to make up for shortfalls from past years, in addition...</description>
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						<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>House prices steady in February, sales recover</title>        
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						<description>House prices are staying steady across New Zealand, says latest figures from the Real Estate Institute. Sales numbers during February recovered from their lowest level in nearly two decades, but the national median price stayed...</description>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:08:22 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>Experts scoff at claims of  crisis in  rent market</title>        
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						<description>An Auckland property manager is warning of a looming rental housing crisis - but his claim has been rejected by market watchers.Wayne Boberg of property management business Bobergs First National tracks the rental and houses for-sale...</description>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>Jones chases hundreds of thousands from rent contract</title>        
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						<description>The property empire of Sir Bob Jones is chasing more rent owed by the last surviving arm of Mark Bryers&apos; business.Damian Chesterman, Robt Jones&apos; barrister of Bankside Chambers, has filed an application for Auckland rent due from...</description>
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