Guest Contributors
How Verified Data Is Changing Real Estate Prospecting
Top real estate agents are revolutionising prospecting by leveraging verified property data to target the right homeowners at the right time. Rather than cold-calling entire neighborhoods, they're using contextual information to personalise outreach, prioritise high-potential leads, and build meaningful relationships that convert to listings.
Why Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone Matters — in Business and Beyond
Brady Marcs Buyers Advisory CEO and Founder Brady Yoshia will swap her buyers agent hat for a chef's…
Why 2025 Is the Year to Start Using Video Marketing Tools in Your Real Estate Business
Video marketing is transforming real estate in 2025, becoming essential for agents seeking to stand out in a…
Level up: personal development strategies for real estate success
What’s the difference between a good real estate agent and a great one? The answer isn’t a bigger…
The case for keeping real estate deregulated
Paul Curtin, co-founder of Place, has long championed the importance of keeping the sector accessible and innovative.
Leadership lessons from a 3x property management growth journey: Marcel Dybner
In 2018, as head of a growing property management division, Marcel Dybner entered Elite Agent's Transform program, hoping…
Bathroom trends for today and tomorrow
Got a vendor that needs inspiration to do up their bathroom? Or perhaps a buyer looking to renovate?
Reclaiming lost productivity in a real estate office
Too much to do and too little time.
How to perfect your prompt writing for ChatGPT, Midjourney and other AI generators
Generative AI is having a moment. ChatGPT and art generators such as DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney…
Justine Wilson: 5 steps to winter styling
Leading Sydney-based property stylist Justine Wilson from Vault Interiors shares her 2022 tips to create a cocooning, welcoming…
Autumn styling with Justine Wilson
Leading Sydney Property Stylist, Justine Wilson shares her favourite season of the year’s tips and tricks to get…
Top 10 real estate social media marketing tips for real estate agents
Social media is the highest lead generator for property businesses.
What makes an ideal commercial property for an investor?
The commercial property sector in Australia has shown signs of getting hot after more than a year beset…
How to avoid these seven common website mistakes that could be losing you leads
Digital marketing is a vital component in today's market. But as SEO continue to evolve, it can be…
Why serial entrepreneur Nick Bell has 10 mentors at the one time (and why you should too)
Five-time AFR Young Rich Lister Nick Bell shares how he reached his goals with the assistance of 10…
Unity is key to fighting COVID-19 as the property industry takes another hit
Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) president Adrian Kelly shares his view on how Australia should tackle the…
The lesson for Australia out of Victoria’s property tax hikes: two out of three ain’t bad
Victorian treasurer Tim Pallas’s three-pronged strategy to raise an extra $2.7 billion in property taxes over the next…
The home renovation equation: A personal finance expert explains
Home renovation has long been something of a national sport for many Australians, but community demand for home…
Would scrapping negative gearing lead to more affordable house prices?
House prices are back in the news, and out of control. In the past three months the median…
Build-to-rent surge will change apartment living for Australians, but for better or worse?
Australia’s emerging build-to-rent sector is growing — “booming” by some accounts with a 70 per cent jump in…
Why isn’t there a big increase in tiny house living?
Heather Shearer, Research Fellow, Cities Research Institute, Griffith University and Paul Burton, Professor of Urban Management & Planning…
What if Google does pull its search engine out of Australia?
Google is the dominant search engine in Australia — it has 94% of the web search market in…
The hits and misses for commercial property in 2021
COVID-19 changed the way we do commercial property, potentially forever says to Steve Palise, commercial property expert and…
Renters in Victoria soon won’t have to deal with dodgy heaters and insulation
Victoria has outlined a watershed energy efficiency stimulus package, but how will it work and will the Federal…
A third of our waste comes from buildings. This one’s designed for reuse and cuts emissions by 88%
Who says buildings can't be reused, reinvented recycled? Curtin University academics argue it's feasible, and have created a…
$1 billion per year (or less) could halve rental housing stress
There's a better way to address housing stress, argue academics. And it comes in the form of more…
The suburbs are the future of post-COVID retail
CBD retailers have been hit hard by COVID-19, but as academics explain that's just the latest in a…
Healthy housing agenda needed
With mould and damp health costs tallying up to about three times those of sugary drinks, academics say…
Why more housing stimulus will be needed to sustain recovery
Housing stimulus has proved a welcome shot in the arm for the property market, but academics question whether…
The social science behind auctions
Two winners of this year's Nobel Prize in economics researched the social science behind auctions. Senior lecturer John…
Am I coping well during the pandemic?
Experts have warned of a forthcoming wave of people suffering mental health issues, but how can you tell…
Why do some people struggle to make ‘healthy’ decisions, day after day?
To navigate our way through the world, we constantly make choices. While we’ve all made our fair share…
COVID impacts demand a change of plan: from commuting to living locally
It's not just where we work which has changed courtesy of COVID-19, how we get to and from…