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To start selling, it's best to speak with a top-performing local real estate agent who has experience with properties like yours and can work well with you.

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The lowest fee should not be your top requirement in an agent. Rather, you should look for agents that can strongly back up their fee structure and commission rate.

An agent with a strong sales background in selling quickly and for a higher price will often cover their fee and more. Receive a shortlist of top agents in the local Kariong area from our agent comparison tool to sell confidently.

Kariong is one of the more expensive suburbs in Australia when it comes to real estate agent commission rates. Experience has shown us that real estate agent commission rates in Kariong average around 3%.

Compared to other areas in Australia, the commission rate in Kariong is higher - remember that you can negotiate with your real estate agent about their fees and commissions, as well as inclusions on marketing fees.

Use the real estate agent fee calculator below to determine how much it may cost to sell your property in New South Wales. Amounts calculated include 10% GST, but exclude other costs an agent may charge such as advertising and marketing.

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Kariong Suburb Overview

Kariong is a locality of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia west of Gosford along the Central Coast Highway. It is part of the City of Gosford local government area.

Kariong was once believed to mean meeting place in the local Original language. However, records in the NSW Mitchell Library show that the name Kariong was a typographical error from old script reading ‘Karrong’, the second ‘r’ was mistaken for an ‘i’. However ‘Karrong’ may mean ‘meeting place’. When the village of Kariong was first settled, after 1901, it for a time consisted of only about fifteen families, and people were told that the name Kariong meant “place of the cold winds”. Kariong was first settled in 1901 by W.H. Parry who was probably the only permanent settler for a time. It then grew after 1911 with the opening of the Mount Penang Training School for boys, most of the first inhabitants working at that school. Early resident Basil Topple had been an officer on the training ship Sobraon in Sydney Harbour, which was where all the boys came from after the Sobraon was condemned. The village was not first known as Kariong. At first it was called Kendall Heights, then Penang Mountain, and only in about 1947 was the name Kariong assigned to it. The name is listed, though with a different spelling, in F.D. McCarthy’s Aboriginal place names book of 1946, which states the meaning as “place of the cold east winds” .

Referring to the coastal area and the Blue Mountains between Newcastle and Wollongong, the Frenchman Jean Clottes, one of the world’s foremost authorities on rock art, stated “this area has the greatest diversity for rock art in the world”. Unfortunately many of the sites are not recorded in the official National Parks & Wildlife register, which is maintained by AHIMS.

Kariong’s boundaries include a considerable section of the Brisbane Water National Park to the south, and the Mount Penang Parklands, with its native gardens, which is also the location of the annual Australian Springtime Flora Festival.

Kariong is considered the entry point to the Central Coast as it borders the Sydney Newcastle Freeway. A visitor information centre for the Central Coast is located just off the Central Coast Highway, near the entry to the Mount Penang Parklands.

A “Save Sacred Kariong” anti-development protest, lead by Steve Cassar, was established to protect the biome of the endangered plant species Darwinia glaucophylla which occurs nowhere else naturally in the world. Although not solely found at Kariong it is endemnic to the Gosford area.

The Gosford glyphs are a group of approximately a hundred alleged Egyptian hieroglyphs near Karlong in an area known for its aboriginal petroglyphs. These were first reported in 1975 by Alan Dash, a local surveyor who had been visiting the area for seven years. Dash continued to visit for five years and reported that the number of hieroglyphs had increased every time that he visited and that he once saw someone inscribing hieroglyphs.

Since then the hieroglyphs have been claimed to be authentic proto-Dynastic script carved by Egyptians about 5000 years ago. Australian Professor of Egyptology Naguib Kanawati has stated that they are not authentic, with hieroglyphs within the same panels being of widely different periods and some being carved backwards. Others include such things as bells and a dogs bone.

Geologists have stated that the sandstone in which the hieroglyphs are carved erodes quickly and nearby 250 year old Aborigine petroglyphs show considerably more erosion. In 1983, David Lamber, then a rock art conservator for the National Park Wildlife Service, found some clean cut hieroglyphs which he estimated to be less than twelve months old.

In recent years, and still ongoing, the campaign by Jake Cassar and many others has been well publicised in local media and declares concern similar to Mr Gilford’s “Not far from the scene of these age-old masterpieces” there is land still on sale. The State government has been urged to buy this land and add it to the national park. The matter has been subject to a considerable amount of local politics.

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