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Elite Agent
Barry Plant auction to support childhood cancer
For the third year in a row, Barry Plant is teaming up with Simonds Homes and Satterley developers for the ‘Home for a Cure’ campaign, raising much needed money to support the My Room Children’s Cancer Charity. The past two years have seen Jim Hatzimoisis, Director at Barry Plant Taylors Lakes auction off house and land packages, raising over $1.3…
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NEWS
What’s good and what’s not in the 2022 Federal Budget
Tuesday's Federal Budget had an overarching theme of reducing the cost of living and come Wednesday morning the real estate sector weighed in what it liked and didn't like about Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's balance sheet.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Russian-Ukraine crisis to hit housing affordability
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine will hit Australians in the hip pocket which could weigh on housing affordability.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
REISA launches Future Leaders Taskforce
The Real Estate Institute of South Australia is looking to empower the next generation of real estate professionals with the launch of its new Future Leaders Taskforce.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Double-digit increase for SA house prices
The strength of South Australia’s property market has been revealed, with data from the Valuer-General indicating median house prices in the state increased 16.78 per cent in the 12 months to December 2021.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Omicron hits the real estate sector
With more than 600,000 active cases of Covid in Australia, and the Omicron variant surging across the country, the impact on the real estate sector is now becoming more evident. From staff shortages to legal implications and a slowdown in the rental market, this is what the nation’s real estate institutes are hearing from their members… Real Estate Institute of…
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NEWS
Metro Adelaide sets new record for median price
Metropolitan Adelaide has recorded a record-breaking median price increase of 13.82 per cent year-on-year, up 3.7 per cent from the previous quarter, according to new data. The new median price for the region has climbed to $560,000, which is also a record, the data revealed. The Real Estate Institute of South Australia’s Valuer-General’s price data for the 2021 September quarter…
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Interstate buyers aren’t slowing down in South Australia
New REISA data has shown continued net interstate immigration gains throughout regional and metro South Australia
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INDUSTRY NEWS
REISA welcomes new budget but seeks more focus on housing
The Real Estate Institute of South Australia (REISA) has welcomed the continued emphasis on infrastructure throughout the region, but was concerned with the lack of investment in the housing sector. The 2021-22 State Budget handed down by the South Australian (SA) Treasurer Rob Lucas maintained a strong economic focus but should have included more assistance for the property sector, according…
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SA sees massive increase in buyers from interstate
Real Estate Institute of South Australia Chief Executive Officer Barry Money says that REISA’s statistics reveal a sizeable lift in the number of residential properties purchased by buyers whose primary address is outside of South Australia. “We compared the numbers in our own unique data set from January through April with those from the same first four months of 2020,…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Real estate networks champion charitable causes
Real estate agents are a philanthropic bunch and with Christmas just around the corner, three networks have given back to charitable causes aimed at making the lives of others better.
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Elite Agent
Alice Geddes: a taste for success
When Alice Geddes first dreamt of her ideal career, real estate never came into the picture.
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Elite Agent
Bill Karp: Why leadership will be his legacy
Bill Karp is celebrating 40 years in the real estate industry, but that doesn’t mean he is thinking about retirement.
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FEATURE INTERVIEWS
Nicola Parreira: risking everything on a dream
When Nicola Parreia was given the opportunity to have her own office, she put almost every red cent her family had into the venture.
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NEWS
Another rate hike to curb the highest inflation in three decades
The official cash rate is now 1.85 per cent after the Reserve Bank of Australia opted to raise interest rates a further 50 basis points at its monthly meeting today. The increase marks the fourth consecutive month of interest rate hikes as the RBA seeks to moderate inflation that is now the highest it has been since the early 1990s.…
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RBA goes ‘hard’ with interest rate jump
Higher than expected inflation has seen the Reserve Bank of Australia lift the cash rate for the second consecutive month, with today’s 50 basis point increase taking the official interest rate to 0.85 per cent.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Cash rate rises for first time in over a decade
After 17 months of record low interest rates, the Reserve Bank of Australia has today lifted the cash rate 25 basis points to 0.35 per cent while clearly indicating more rate rises are to come.
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CONTRIBUTORS
The perfect hybrid: a tech savvy agent who listens
Meeting the PropTech needs of young, digitally savvy agents has never been more important. But, as Nigel O'Neil explains, this needs to be coupled with an ability to listen and commitment to great customer experience to generate business growth.
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NEWS
Another way to transact property: Transactor teams up with Contracoin
Leading property communication and transaction platform, Transactor, has opened up new avenues by enabling the use of Contracoin: a blockchain real estate platform that allows buyers and sellers to rapidly transact properties anywhere in the world. Transactor, whose foundations are based on taking the friction out of property transactions with world-first innovations, has been quick to welcome the inception of…
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CONTRIBUTORS
Who comes first: The customer or your team?
It's a myth that all business is good business. Difficult clients can cost you time, money and sap your team's enthusiasm for their job. Nigel O'Neil explains why, sometimes, the best thing to do is say goodbye.
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Elite Agent
Convini and OurProperty join forces for landlord BNPL tool PropPay
Tech company OurProperty has joined forces with fledgling fintech firm Convini to launch a new product that allows landlords to fund maintenance and refurbishment jobs via an online tool.
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NEWS
Real Estate industry unites to support victims of the bushfire crisis
Within days of launch, almost 30 real estate industry brands have united behind the Beyond the Bricks campaign as part of an industry-wide response to the devastation caused by the bushfires. With a focus on a three-phase response that encompasses the pillars of ‘relief, rebuild, restore’, the group has already pledged more than $900,000 with four preferred charities flagged for…
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Elite Agent
Top 10 real estate news stories for 2019
What hit the real estate news headlines this past year? Well, here is our list of the top 10 most read news stories on eliteagent.com.
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SELLING + MARKETING PROPERTY
People Power
On the surface, the link between producing commercial quantities of soup and selling houses is extremely tenuous. Dig a little deeper and you may find the connection not so far fetched. Former Campbell’s Soup CEO Doug Conant was renowned for saying “to win in the marketplace, you must first win in the workplace”. It’s an adage that Barry Plant Manningham…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 74: Christmas special with Rik Rushton – 2018 in review and thriving in 2019
2018 is a year that has delivered winds of change travelling as fast as a Glenn McGrath Bouncer - cricket metaphor intended! It started in January with John McGrath ‘getting the band back’ together and this week’s guest Rik Rushton at the same time released a book called “The Power of Connection”. In this podcast, Samantha McLean takes Rik along…
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FEATURE INTERVIEWS
The initiative helping agents end homelessness
“I’d noticed the homeless situation getting worse and worse – I think in the inner city over the last six years I’ve really been noticing it – but I’ve always thought it’s someone else’s responsibility. Someone else will deal with that. Then I realised I could actually do something about it, which is how the project started. “I thought, here…
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FEATURE INTERVIEWS
Giving your Time for Growth: Dwight Ferguson
The esteemed principal of Ray White Ascot said the single biggest area that many agents let themselves down with was they don’t give people enough time. “If you have never met someone and you are given the responsibility of managing their biggest asset, and their most emotionally invested asset, you need to give people your time,” Mr Ferguson said. “If…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Aussie long-term rental start-up Cubbi.com gets fresh new round of funding
Melbourne-based Cubbi.com, which offers tenants long-term rentals anything ranging from three months to two years, has just announced a $300,000 seed round of funding from a consortium of investors led by 1Form co-founder Chad Stephens. Co-founder and co-Ceo Jason Gilbert who runs the company with his older brother Michael told Elite Agent that the seed funding received from Stephens was…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
First National Real Estate WA recognises its top agents
First National Real Estate’s Western Australian agents were recognised with general excellence and marketing awards at the Perth Flying Squadron Yacht Club last week. The awards brought recognition to the best of Western Australia’s real estate performances throughout last year, which according to First National WA chairman, Allan Griffiths, contributed to the company winning the Canstar Blue’s ‘Most Satisfied Customers’…
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The Extra One Per Cent: Anthony Cardinale
ANTHONY CARDINALE IS the Principal of Barry Plant Preston. Passionate about property management, he believes there are three aspects to creating both a successful business and property management portfolio: to improve it by just one per cent every day, include a personal touch and become an expert in communication. Story by Samantha McLean. STARTING OUT AS an accountant and toy…
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Elite Agent
Succession – Planning for the Future
Being in sales doesn’t mean staying sales. This article maps a near perfect succession to a business handover to sales people. Succession planning is a critical aspect of real estate franchising. A properly managed succession plan provides a path for business owners to ease out of the business at a time that suits them and it provides the franchisor with…
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