Prospects improve for Newcastle

THE Newcastle industrial market will continue to strengthen this year with firming yields and rising rents driving demand for industrial space, agents said.

SPOTLIGHT

Auctioneers and stock and station agents sell property at auction and advise and represent farmers in business transactions such as buying and selling livestock, rural property and goods and services.

Miraculous Survival Of Celebrity Auctioneer

UPSIDE DOWN and injured in the mangled wreckage of his single-engine Cessna 172, Scott Kennedy-Green managed to reach for his UHF radio.

Byron Bay V Bourke: A Tale Of Two Shires

PASSION for property on the beach isn't the only thing that makes Byron Shire NSW's most expensive regional area. Its median house price of $529,000 has been driven up by the influx of people from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane buying lifestyle retreats, claim experts such as Macquarie Bank's head of property research, Rod Cornish.

Gutsy Community Determined Not To Let Their Town Run Out Of Gas

THE people of a dying country town have taken out a loan to reopen a petrol station in a bid to save other businesses from going under.

Ford Falcon Xr8 Ute

PIGEON HOLE: Express cargo. The ute as a sports car. PHILOSOPHY: Country cult reborn. More status than a Merc at any bachelor and spinster. WHO'S BUYING IT: Grunt lovers, speedboat owners, horse float towers, stock and station agents, heirs to the family farm - and city slickers keen to own th

All That Sweat And Pride Wasn't Spent In Vain

An old sheep property is saved from tourism at the last minute to once again support a family. THE call I had been dreading came through a couple of months ago. The news from my father in the bush was that the real estate agent had been around (whatever happened to stock and station agents?) and

Stock And Station Agent

A STOCK and station agent is concerned with livestock, land used for farming, agricultural purposes and grazing, and selling the goods farmers and graziers need. Qualifications and training: TAFE conducts a two-year, part-time stock and station practice course at several technical colleges.