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Real Estate and Property - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment best practice in the real estate and property industry.
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- Electronic Conveyancing to Save $100 Million
- An electronic conveyancing system with the potential to save the community more than $100 million a year will be piloted this month, the Planning Minister, Rob Hulls, said today. Mr Hulls said eight financial institutions had signed up to trial the groundbreaking system, which will be Australia’s first for online property settlement and lodgement.
Added: 25 August 2006
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- Real estate and property - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about egovernment initiatives relating to real estate and property issues in the United Kingdom.
Added: 16 December 2005
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- Launch of Land Registration (Electronic Conveyancing) Rules 2011 consultation
- Land Registry. On 22 March 2010, Land Registry launches the third consultation on its proposals for electronic conveyancing (e-conveyancing)... The consultation closes on Friday 25 June 2010.
Added: 24 March 2010;
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- Land Registry launches e-transfer consultation
- The national registry of land for England and Wales has begun a consultation on proposed rules involving electronic transfers. Kable, Tuesday 23 March 2010. "Land Registry is seeking views on the creation of electronic transfers using e-signatures and the extension of the use of electronic legal charges..."
Added: 24 March 2010;
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- Vicmap Property Database
- Department of Sustainability and Environment, Spatial Information Infrastructure. Provided by the Victorian government, this is Victoria's most complete, authoritative, accurate and current property index including: parcel and property polygon views; parcel and property Identifiers - Standard Parcel Identifiers (SPI) and council property numbers; registered and proposed parcels; Crown and freehold land differentiation; cadastral road casement boundaries; easements; Unique Feature Identifiers, date stamps and data quality information; cross reference to Vicmap Address and Vicmap Admin.
Added: 16 March 2010;
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- China extends rural land registration pilot
- By Jianggan Li. FutureGov, 20 September 2009. "After the successful completion of the first phase of the pilot GIS-based land registration project covering two villager groups, China has signed a contract for a second phase, involving two to three counties in the eastern Anhui province..."
Added: 21 September 2009;
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- E-conveyancing dealt a major blow
- by Julian Bajkowski and Rachael Bolton. MIS Financial Review, Friday, 11 September 2009. "... Westpac Banking Corporation yesterday confirmed it had suspended its participation in an ambitious government scheme to create a single electronic platform for mortgage processing across Australia by 2010..."
Added: 11 September 2009;
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- Tanner rules out e-conveyancing cash
- by Chris Merritt. AustralianIT, August 21, 2009. "The appointment of Peter Harris to a senior role in the federal public service coincides with the government's refusal to provide $20 million in seed funding for the national e-conveyancing system. Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner and Deregulation Minister Craig Emerson have outlined the government's position in a letter to Les Taylor, who chairs the national electronic conveyancing system steering committee..."
Added: 25 August 2009;
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- Making Google Maps even more useful with real estate search
- Posted by Andrew Foster, Product Manager. The Official Google Australia Blog, Monday, July 6, 2009. "... from today, we're adding the ability to search for properties on Google Maps. We've worked with partners across the real estate industry to provide up-to-date listings, which you can search for directly from the Google Maps search box..."
Added: 7 July 2009;
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- E-conveyancing thrown a $2m lifeline
- by Chris Merritt. AustralianIT, June 19, 2009. "The push to establish a national electronic conveyancing system gained fresh impetus this week when the NSW government allocated $2 million to the project. The extra funding, which was made available in the state budget, comes soon after NSW, Victoria and Queensland were given the leading roles in planning the national system on behalf of the Council of Australian Governments..."
Added: 22 June 2009;
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- Australian e-project abandoned
- By Kelly Ng. FutureGov, 15 June 2009. "The Australian federal government has ignored a funding request and has withdrawn its involvement in a national online conveyancing system..."
Added: 17 June 2009;
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- Canberra cuts link to e-scheme
- by Chris Merritt. AustralianIT, June 5, 2009. "The federal Government severed one of its last links with the moves to establish a national electronic conveyancing system last week after being informed that the scheme was on the brink of collapse. The decision to reduce the Government's involvement was taken last Friday by an inter-governmental committee that reports to Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner and Small Business Minister Craig Emerson..."
Added: 5 June 2009;
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- E-conveyancing in auditor's sights
- by Chris Merritt. AustralianIT, August 15, 2008. "The Victorian Auditor General is considering a performance audit of the government's $40 million electronic conveyancing system..."
Added: 18 August 2008;
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- Victoria in e-conveyancing payout
- by Chris Merritt. AustralianIT, July 4, 2008. "Victoria may be in line for a multi-million-dollar payout as part of the push to clear the impediments that have delayed the establishment of a national electronic conveyancing system. Attorney-General Robert McClelland said it was "inevitable" that Victoria would be compensated for spending millions of dollars building a state-based e-conveyancing system..."
Added: 7 July 2008;
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- E-conveyancing faces resistance
- by David Crowe. The Australian Financial Review, 2 July 2008. "All Australian property transactions would be settled by an electronic system set up by federal and state governments under an agreement to be formalised tomorrow and tipped to save $250 million a year..."
Added: 3 July 2008;
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- E-conveyancing scheme goes ahead
- by Samantha Maiden, Online Political Editor. AustralianIT, July 2, 2008. "Homebuyers could save hundreds of dollars in conveyancing costs under a new plan to be agreed to at COAG [Commonwealth of Australian Government] to settle property transactions electronically. Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has told The Australian that over time he expects significant savings for homebuyers in lawyers’ conveyancing fees..."
Added: 2 July 2008;
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- E-conveyancing on track: Tanner
- by Chris Merritt. AustralianIT, May 23, 2008. "Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner knew all about the events in Sydney last week that threatened to derail the push for a national system of electronic conveyancing. "I was aware of the meeting," he says. But Tanner, who is overseeing a working group aimed at delivering a national e-conveyancing scheme, is still confident that there will soon be a successful outcome..."
Added: 23 May 2008;
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