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Hannah Gill says true standards are set when nobody is watching. Image: Supplied/Lois
Opinion

The behaviour you walk past is the behaviour you accept

Hannah Gill argues real estate culture is shaped less by strategy statements and more by the small moments principals let slide.

1.3 million new residents, 800,000 homes: Inside the Minns Government's 20-year Sydney blueprint. Image: Lois
Industry News

Councils to lock in 30-year housing blueprint pipeline under Sydney masterplan

The finalised Sydney Plan maps housing growth to the city's east and jobs growth to the west, giving sales agents a clearer picture of where demand and development will concentrate.

Matilda Downard's staging strategy delivers five offers in 18 days for Usher property
Agent Stories

Matilda Downard’s staging strategy delivers five offers in 18 days for Usher property

Matilda Downard's hands-on preparation and strategic staging approach delivered five offers in 18 days for a Bunbury-area property,…

Italy's prestige property sector is booming as offshore buyers look beyond traditional European capitals. Image: Lois
International

What a €1 million budget buys in Italy versus Sydney

Knight Frank research shows prestige buyers are getting far more space and favourable tax settings in Venice, Lucca…

REA Group economist Megan Lieu expects affordable sub-$1 million suburbs to remain resilient as buyers adapt to lower borrowing capacities. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

Where rate pressure is sending buyer demand right now

New REA Group figures reveal enquiry growth of up to 245 per cent in regional and fringe suburbs,…

Torn-paper collage of a Victorian terrace house with wrought-iron fence, chandelier shadow and a ghostly figure on a staircase
Features

Nick Brown: A break lease isn’t a crisis – it’s a negotiation

Tenants ending a lease early is part of the job – Nick Brown on why the ‘break lease’ conversation is really just a negotiation, haunted houses included.

Features

Brock Fisher: Fix the holes in your revenue bucket before you try to grow it

Most agencies are missing hundreds of dollars a month in fees they never collect. From file audits to reinstating waived fees, here's where property management revenue leaks – and six ways to stop it.

News

Rent.com.au posts record revenue as RentBond hits $10m

The ASX-listed rental platform behind RentPay says it's nearing break-even, with recurring revenue from bond and rent products passing $1 million a quarter for the first time.

Partner Content

The thought we all have, but dare not say out loud

Fiona Blayney says the fear isn't really about the bot, it's about what happens to the human role, and she's built PM/ONE around answering it…

Partner Content

Three numbers that should make every principal uncomfortable, and one that matters

Real Estate Agent Events

Top of the Props 2026 finalists take aim at property industry’s biggest pressure points

Features

‘You’re not in the property business’

Phill Nosworthy. Image: AREC.

How good agents learn from feedback without being ruled by it

Real estate is a reputation business. Every listing and showing is a public performance. Every negotiation goes on the scoreboard.…

Contributor

The house is listening – and it heard your vendor report

More than half of sellers in a new US survey kept the cameras rolling during…

Managing Editor

Pancho Mehrotra: Why emotional control – not skill – decides your next sales month

One month everything works – the next, everything has changed. The difference isn't your ability,…

Contributor

Mark McLeod: How to Break a Real Estate Slump and Own Saturday Afternoon

Why listings can secretly stall your pipeline - and how back-to-basics prospecting and owning Saturday…

Contributor

Shorts

AI & Technology

Elite Agent launches Saved Articles, free for every reader

Have you ever found a headline interesting at a moment when you didn’t have time…

Peter Schravemade and Antonia Mercorella

Proptech’s real problem isn’t the software, it’s the rollout

The biggest challenges facing Australia and New Zealand’s proptech sector are no longer technical. They…

The proptech push to finally unify your real estate tech stack

The modern real estate office has become a complex web of disconnected systems. What was…

The MacGyver factor – why you should hire people who “handle it”

“You and I could MacGyver anything.” Mark said it to me the other night –…

Will AI ‘Millionaires’ Reshape Luxury Real Estate Buying Habits?

A wave of young AI founders is pouring wealth into luxury residential property, and their…