Source: Supplied AFTER a slow start to the new year, the pace of Melbourne's property market looks set to pick up in next month. How Melbourne's property market will shape up this year is anyone's guess. So far in 2011, too few properties have changed hands to give away any clues.Some encouragement can be taken from Melbourne's average house prices rising 9.21 per cent in 2010 -- a difficult year, generally, Read more [...]

IT'S a tale of love as enduring as anything Shakespeare could have penned. But like all romantic trysts, there are those difficult periods when the bonds of intimacy are tested to the limit. Ever since colonisation, Australians have swooned at the idea of owning their own piece of paradise, be it a home among the gum trees or a sprawling subdivision in suburbia. Real estate. The very term conjures images of something tangible, real. You can see it, you can Read more [...]

Bodies exhumed from former chapel 11:00am Friday 21st January 2011 Print Email Share Comments(0) ARCHAEOLOGISTS have exhumed 22 bodies from the site of a former chapel in Bromyard. The Congregational Church, in Sherford Street, was last used for services in 1971 and is being preserved and redeveloped into flats and houses. Border Archaeology, of Leominster, conducted the exhumation of bodies at the Grade II listed building Read more [...]

Published on Fri Jan 21 07:00:25 GMT 2011 A CONTROVERSIAL housing development next to a historic Rosewell building has been given the go-ahead. Almost 100 new homes will be built within the grounds of Grade A listed Whitehill House - the home of Whitehill Golf Course - after Midlothian Council’s planning committee approved the plans, subject Read more [...]