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Commitment to those less fortunate: Swags for Homeless

Every year the team at Beach & Bay Realty chooses a few causes and charities to support. Every year there seems to be more and more people in need. For 2011 and onwards we have decided to support Swags for Homeless, established by Melbourne man Tony Clark who developed a waterproof sleeping bag that folds [...]

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Annual Neighbour Day – 25th March 2012

March 9, 2012

Held each year on the last Sunday in March, Neighbour Day is Australia’s annual celebration of community, giving people the perfect opportunity to say thanks for being a great neighbour and for being there for me. ‘The community you want starts at your front door’ The Macquarie Dictionary defines a neighbour as: Someone who lives [...]

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Is your Cronulla Magazine soggy!

March 8, 2012

The Cronulla Magazine is out today, by the time everyone gets it, the magazine will probably be a soggy mess so just in case here is our ad on page 25!                   Mark Speakman is on the cover regarding the Cronulla Fisheries closure with the heading “Hung [...]

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Today is International Women’s Day

March 8, 2012

UN Women Australia’s theme for International Women’s Day 2012 is Women’s Economic Empowerment. Each year across the world International Women’s Day falls on the 8th March to celebrate the vital role women play in enhancing economic security for their families, communities and countries as a whole while recognising that sadly significant barriers to achieving women’s economic security [...]

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Cronulla Magazine is out tomorrow

March 7, 2012

Can’t wait to see Beach & Bay’s full page ad in the Sutherland Shire Leader Magazine tomorrow! The Cronulla Magazine is a monthly publication inserted into the Thursday Leader and cover’s all things Cronulla based including local news, talent, entertainment, events and local businesses. Our “I Love Cronulla” Facebook page is almost 2 years old [...]

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3rd March Auction clearance rate

March 5, 2012

A disappointing start for March auctions with Saturday 3rd having a local clearance rate of 37.5% compared with Sydneywide of 55%. In fact, on Saturday only 1 property sold under the hammer but 2 did sell prior. Several were cancelled or withdrawn. Last week‘s local auction clearance rate was 63%. Beach & Bay tracks the [...]

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Beach wheelchairs in Cronulla

March 2, 2012

Cronulla is continuing to give people with disabilities the opportunity to enjoy what our beachside suburb is most famous for, the sand and the surf, with beach wheelchairs available from Sutherland Shire Council lifeguards. The beach wheelchairs allow those to travel over sand and float in the surf with their inflatable tyres. This week The [...]

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Junk mail survey results

March 1, 2012

Earlier this month we took a survey on Facebook on real estate junk mail. Junk mail advertising is something we normally don’t do at Beach & Bay but we thought we should ask local residents if they wanted us to. The survey results came in with a resounding NO! but there were some interesting comments [...]

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Local businesses donating to charity

February 29, 2012

We love a business that has a commitment to supporting charities and we want to shine the light on the following local businesses for their current or ongoing support to certain charities, especially when in current times it is so hard, both financially and time consuming, to own a successful local business. I’ve included Beach [...]

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Auction results improve locally

February 28, 2012

Last week’s local auction statistics came in at a 63% clearance rate compared with Sydney wide of 57% which is a great result for the local property market and a vast improvement on the 23% clearance rate for first week of auctions for 2012. Overall there seems to be less properties for sale or auction [...]

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Cronulla Cinemas Movie Review: The Grey

February 24, 2012

The Grey is an American survival thriller directed by Joe Carnahan. It is based on a short story called “Ghost Walker”, which is co-adapted by writer Ian MacKenzie Jeffers and Carnahan himself. While the film promised, at least, the possibility of Liam Neeson battling a wolf, it actually offered up so much more. It is a [...]

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