Round up of local history stories across the New England media no 2

Photo: patrol post, Greta Migrant camp

Over on my New England History blog I have begun a regular round-up of stories from the local media on local history. This is the second in the series.
My aim is to build another resource that can be tapped to by those wishing to explore the history of New England or of their specific region or locality.

By their nature, many of these stories cannot be relied upon to be absolutely accurate, but they are useful in providing information and ideas.    

House prices in New England 2017

 Interesting piece by Jennifer Duke and Kate Burke in Allhomes, Out of breath': Newcastle, Wollongong join Sydney property price downturn. I have referenced it here because it includes housing price data for twelve New England locations over the last twelve months.

The results, summarised in the following table, show changes in the median house price for regional NSW. Armidale Dumaresq (1.7%) had the lowest percentage increase in New England, Ballina (14%) the highest.The table also provides an interesting snapshot of differences in median house prices.

	Sept. 2017	June 2017	Sept. 2016	Quarter growth	Annual growth
Albury	$310,000	$299,500	$305,000	3.40%	1.60%
Armidale Dumaresq	$356,000	$356,250	$350,000	-0.10%	1.70%
Ballina	$621,250	$577,000	$545,000	7.10%	14.0%
Bathurst	$429,000	$417,000	$390,500	2.80%	9.90%
Byron	$820,000	$850,000	$757,500	-3.70%	8.30%
Clarence Valley	$380,000	$360,000	$338,000	5.30%	12.40%
Coffs Harbour	$485,000	$485,000	$431,000	0.00%	12.50%
Dubbo	$350,000	$340,000	$365,000	2.90%	-4.10%
Eurobodalla	$455,000	$450,000	$420,000	1.10%	8.30%
Great Lakes	$492,500	$515,000	$438,500	-4.60%	12.30%
Lismore	$370,000	$375,000	$340,000	-1.40%	8.80%
Newcastle	$595,000	$610,000	$525,000	-2.50%	13.30%
Orange	$366,500	$370,000	$348,000	-1.00%	5.30%
Port Macquarie- Hastings	$520,000	$500,000	$465,000	3.80%	11.80%
Richmond Valley	$275,000	$271,750	$250,000	1.20%	10.00%
Shellharbour	$650,000	$635,000	$557,000	2.30%	16.70%
Shoalhaven	$545,000	$525,000	$456,250	3.70%	19.50%
Tamworth Regional	$349,000	$340,000	$325,000	2.60%	7.40%
Tweed	$573,500	$579,750	$519,000	-1.10%	10.50%
Wagga Wagga	$350,000	$345,000	$322,750	1.40%	8.40%
Wingecarribee	$750,000	$800,000	$765,000	-6.70%	-2.00%
Wollongong	$740,000	$754,000	$649,500	-1.90%	13.90%

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