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In spite of the global economic crisis of the time, Kew as a whole recorded a 44.8% increase in median values for the year to 31 July 2008 (to $ 1.495million) buoyed largely by sales in the
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College Ward and adjacent areas. After the 1994 council amalgamations, council functions are now administered by the
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