[e-gold-list] Re: Australian real estate agents and Australian Banks

[Ian Green]

Hi JP,

It was just a light-hearted comment, not intended to be taken seriously! :)

The fact remains that we do have a staggering amount of land available at
low prices compared to other developed countries. On the other hand, the
vast tracts of land are not owned by ordinary Australians, but most likely
by governments (State and Federal), a small percentage of primary producers,
and Aboriginal* communities, or are of virtually no (currrent) commercial
value, and therefore do not ordinarily change hands or contribute to the
business of real estate agents.

* [ Strangely, some statistics suggest that until the 1980s, aboriginals
accounted for 1 percent of our population, possibly a tenth of that in the
cooler southern states, but that doubled to 2 percent by the end of the
1990s. There must have been a heck of a lot of people 'adopting'
aboriginality over the past several years, but that, of course, is another
subject! ;) ]

Regards,

Ian Green
ao.com.au

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> >With 19 million people inhabiting a continent nearly the size of
> the lower
> >48 states, we must have at least 5 times more real estate (by area, not
> >value) than any other first world country. :)
> >
>
> Your analysis is in error, Ian!  That would suggest that Aussie
> should have real estate agents that are five times LARGER IN SIZE
> than in other countries, rather than five times MORE real estate
> agents than in other countries!
>
> >Regards,
> >
> >Ian Green
> >ao.com.au
> >
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