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030: $100 billion waiting to be spent… where?
$100 Billion waiting to be spent on property and overseas holidays. Where will it go? Where CAN it go? This week, as Richard in Australia and Lance in Vanuatu chat about Real Estate Opportunities and Lifestyles of the South Pacific you will get the answers to both...
2015-04-30: Could House-sitting be your lifestyle choice?
Last weekend was a highlight for hundreds of thousands in this country. The annual day when Australians, New Zealanders and others in the South Pacific remember those who fell in conflicts since WWI. This year there was some controversy over whether real estate...
2015-04-15: “Blessing in disguise” says PM
Hi There! Who would have thought that such a magnificent building with such a price tag for a penthouse would be built in Melbourne, Australia? Listen to this week's show to get the details of the price and comments about where this is taking us. What about Prime...
2015-04-02: Disaster Recovery Expert Outlines Way Forward
Hi There! I can hardly believe it and I live here! Three weeks in a row now, Sydney property auctions have averaged more than $1M. As an example I reveal details of a house that has been owned by the same family for just on 100 years. Purchased in 1915 for a 388...
2015-03-26: Cyclone creates opportunity in paradise
Hello, Yes, you've seen the disaster images of the devastation from Cyclone Pam just two weeks ago today in Vanuatu. What you need to know is that these people are amazing... They are rebuilding the damaged part of their country with gusto and smiles! You will be...
2015-03-19: Vanuatu Rebuilding Paradise
Hello! Last week has been the worst in the history of one of the smallest countries of the world, Vanuatu. Cyclone Pam hit Vanuatu on March 13 and caused massive disruption to the country spread over 83 islands. As per reports from Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu,...
2015-03-12: Mission Impossible for Sydney Families?
You're alone when you're by Yourself! Short show this week Richard is preparing for a live broadcast from the first week of April so has suspended the regular format till first week of April 2015. Even though the show is changing, that doesn't mean Richard has stopped...
25 Feb 2015 Show Topic: Mission Beach and Rainforest – What is a cassowary?
Richard provides the roundup on Sydney prices which again this week and averaged a unbelievable but true $1.1 million of the combined auctions, and we have recorded a actual auction taking place last week. You will be surprised not only a the eventual sale...
18 Feb 2015 Show Topic: Volcanos don’t erupt, but the Auckland real estate market does
It’s another snowy and cold blowy week in Massachusetts where Brian Thomas is holed up. Meanwhile summertime continues in the southern hemisphere where Richard Butler lives along the eastern Pacific coast in Australia. Butler kicks things off with the Aussie real...
11 Feb 2015 Show Topic: New Zealand’s Bay Of Islands
Richard informs of that the real estate auctions in Australia are picking up steam, and the percentages are up in Sydney. Our guest this week is Dianne Quinn, a licensee of Ray White – Paihia, Bay of Islands Real Estate Property Specialists Based in the Bay of...
4 Feb 2015 Show Topic: Wellington, New Zealand
Well, the round ups have resumed in Australia. Richard Butler is on top of that action. The number of auctions may be lower than prior to the Christmas holidays, but the prices continue to sizzle. Our guest today is a former resident of Australia’s Gold Coast...
21 Jan 2015 Show Topic: Darwinism, Real Estate Style
Richard begins today’s show by explaining why Brisbane, Australia is a hotter real estate market in Australia compared to Sydney. Of course these numbers date back to the 1970′s. Speaking of growing or expanding markets, on this show we reach to the Northern...
07 Jan 2015: Manly Beach Lookin’ Good
Richard is back with his real estate round up of Australia. The prices were a bit lower during the last week in 2014, compared to most of November and December. Still, the Australia real estate market sizzles. Adam Reeves is a Ray White real estate Licensee...
31 Dec 2014: Show Topic: 2014-2015
Hope you had a very Merry Christmas as we look down the barrel of 2014. No real real estate round-up as we wrap up 2014. Richard does chime that we need to focus more on the Darwin and Perth markets in the upcoming year. Yes, Darwin is the place with the U.S. military...
24 Dec 2014 Show Topic: Diane Kennedy Is Back With More About Minimizing Your Taxes
Well its starting to look a bit like Xmas! Brian has left on account of the holidays. Thank you Brian for all your help with the show this year! Yes we are heading towards the big day and the Xmas auctions are finished in Australia & last weekend clearance...
Dec 17 2014 Show Topic: Meet Dianne Kennedy, CPA, Author
We’re just week away from Christmas 2014, and Lifestyles and Real Estate of the South Pacific has an excellent present. But first: The Aussie real estate market is nothing to snooze through. Richard Butler states the bell has been rung, ending a highly...
Dec 10 2014 Show Topic: A real real estate comparison between two south Pacific islands
As the holidays approach and the shopping season heating up, nothing seems to sizzle like the real estate market in Australia. Developer Richard Butler claims there’s really only 2 more real estate auction weeks left, and that the number of auctions and the sales...
3 Dec 2014 Show Topic: Traveling the South Pacific–a woman’s Perspective
A slight change from the norm on this week. We start off with the usual Real Estate auction news from Richard Butler. Last week, approximately 2,000 properties were sold at auction in Sydney and Melbourne. The real estate market remains robust with the median auction...
26 Nov 2014 Show Topic: Vanuatu, Looking Ahead to 2015
This week on the Show. Richard provides last week's roundup of the Australian Real Estate Market, Brian is freezing in New England and Randy Mitchell joins Richard and Brian to talk about the future (no, not Mars colonisation: a MUCH better alternative) and how...
19 Nov 2014 Show Topic: Lifestyles and Real Estate of the South Pacific
Richard Butler and Brian Thomas back hosting the Real Estate and Lifestyle of the South Pacific show. This week, Richard explains his amazement at the Australian Real Estate market and with it giving us an overview of last week's property sales figures of major Real...
12 Nov 2014 Show Topic: Look at what the Chinese are doing
Vanuatu trade mission to China Fresh off his trade mission to China, Richard Butler tells us why the Chinese are one for the major economic contributors to the world. During the real estate round up, Butler relates how the Chinese have influenced real estate prices...