Real estate in Australia

Australia has a booming real estate market in the past few years. According to Real Estate Institute of Australia, property sales totalled $186.1 billion in the financial year 2005/2006 and there are 67% of Australians owned their own houses and 28% rented on the private market.

Real estate agent must register himself to be REI member of the state. If you ever consider to be a resl estate agent, remember to surf the website of the local REI of the state.

Here are several real-estate websites in Australia:

• realestate.com.au
• http://www.domain.com.au/
• http://www.homepriceguide.com.au/

Below are the sites which utilized Google Map (Google Maps Mania - real estate):

• http://www.homemap.com.au/
• sellhouse.com.au
• http://www.domain.com.au/
• http://www.realmap.com.au/ (launching soon)