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	<title>Rural Real Estate Listings in Hawkes Bay</title>
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	<description>Jock Hewitt Rural Blog</description>
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		<title>Permanent Forests in New Zealand for Carbon, Timber and Recreation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In New Zealand the Permanent Forest Sink Initiative (PFSI) enables forest investors to establish and create permanent or semi-permanent mixed aged forests with the objective of a substantial long term diversified income from the graduated harvest of logs, together with the sale of carbon credits in the form of internationally recognised Assigned Amount Units (AAU's). It is suggested that some suitably located PFSI forests would be ideally suited as private hunting preserves for deer. ]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Forestry: A New Concept for New Zealand Forestry Investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past New Zealand forest investors have established forests which have involved substantial capital and operating expenditure from aquisition of the land through to harvesting in 25 to 30 years time. By joining the Emmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) investors are able to earn and sell carbon credits (in the form of NZU's) for carbon naturally sequested by the new forest 
creating a positive cash flow as early as the forth year following thinning operations.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/carbon-forestry-a-new-concept-for-new-zealand-forestry-investment/</link>
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		<title>Purchase of rural land in New Zealand by non-residents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand government has a regulatory regime in place to control the sale of rural land to other than New Zealand citizens or to individuals who have not been granted new Zealand residency. These regulations mostly affect land over 5 hectares in size.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/purchase-of-rural-land-in-new-zealand-by-non-residents/</link>
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		<title>Lifestyle Land Values</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hawkes Bay has become a preferred lifestyle destination, not only for overseas migrants but also significant numbers of affluent New Zealanders moving from major urban centres, all keen to enjoy the Bay’s superior Mediterranean climate, quality schools, educational opportunities, rural environment and a relaxed rural lifestyle. Rural land and property values appreciated considerably between 2004 and early 2008 but have eased significantly with the recession from late 2008 to the present time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/lifestyle-land-values/</link>
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		<title>An introduction to Pastoral Farming in Hawke&#8217;s Bay, New Zealand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief background and history of pastoral farming in Hawke's Bay together notes on the present deregulated pastoral economy and current productivity trends.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/an-introduction-to-pastoral-farming-in-hawkes-bay-new-zealand/</link>
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		<title>Pastoral Farming in Hawke&#8217;s Bay, New Zealand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Historical Background Within the Hawkes Bay region, orcharding, viticulture together with various other forms of cash and process food cropping have become increasingly important over the past 30 years, never the less, the pastoral industry; in particular beef and sheep farming continues to be the basis of the Hawke’s Bay rural economy, as it has done from the time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/pastoral-farming-in-hawkes-bay-new-zealand/</link>
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		<title>An Introduction to the Wine and Viticulture Industry in Hawke&#8217;s Bay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief introduction to the history and background of the wine industry in Hawke's Bay together with some notes on current industry trends. Hawke's Bay differs from other major wine grape growing regions within New Zealand not only through its distinctive soils and climate but also through the range of different growing wine growing micro climates found from the coast line to the inland plains through to inland river valleys and foothills. The major Hawke's Bay wine grape growing areas are summarised in this article.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/an-introduction-to-the-wine-and-viticulture-industry-in-hawkes-bay/</link>
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		<title>About Hawke&#8217;s Bay &#8211; A Region of Abundance.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A general background to Hawke's Bay, its climate and geography, economic development, towns and cities.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/143/</link>
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		<title>Buying Rural Property in New Zealand: A Taxing Matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Families and individuals considering any type of investment, especially land purchases, are well advised to seek early advice from an experienced Chartered Accountant on taxation and other related matters that will inevitably affect them. In New Zealand taxation is levied on a personal level through a pay as you earn system, through company taxation and through a comprehensive goods and services tax (GST). New Zealand does not have death duties or land taxes (such as those in USA). Families moving to New Zealand and purchasing property should consider all aspects and advantages of creating a family trust as an entity for the purchase and ownership of property.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/buying-rural-real-estate-in-new-zealand-a-taxing-matter/</link>
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		<title>Introducing British farmers and investors to New Zealand farms and farming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British farmers and migrants moving to New Zealand find an agricultural, economic and social environment that was founded primarily on British settlement over the past 150 years. Never the less, although New Zealand farmers now compete with British farmers with similar produce, the New Zealand farming industry differs from Britain in essential detail in almost every importaint aspect. This article attempts to outline the essential history to the rural settlent of New Zealand, how it differs in the 21st century and the essential geographic, economic and political reasons behind these differences.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/introducing-british-farmers-and-investors-to-new-zealand-farms-and-farming/</link>
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