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OPINION
Joel Davoren: Should you be wearing blinkers?
Another Melbourne Cup is behind us, and I hope the punters among you had a win on the day.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Joel Davoren: Make auctions comfortable for buyers
With record prices being achieved across much of Australia’s real estate market over the past year, the popularity of auctions has also skyrocketed. As RE/MAX Australia Managing Director Joel Davoren explains, there’s every chance someone’s dream home will sell under the hammer, so agents need to ensure prospective buyers are comfortable with the process.
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Elite Agent
Joel Davoren: When is it wrong to focus on bragging rights?
Real estate as an industry is very focused on talking about records, and now more than ever! We do it because we are proud of what we do and what we achieve.
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BEST PRACTICE
How to beat real estate fatigue: Joel Davoren
Career fatigue is not often talked about openly in our industry. But career fatigue is real. As agents, we tend to be conditioned to accept tough outcomes, rejection and negativity, and react by getting on with things.
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OPINION
The myth of urgency: When time is your friend
In our industry, and particularly in real estate sales, we guide our clients through periods of change. We are taught to act quickly as agents and, over time, our natural instinct kicks in to often tell us to act urgently. It's what we think we must do, which can cause us to adopt a mindset…
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OPINION
EOFY – The time to move business forward: Joel Davoren
This years financial end preceded the decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia’s board to hold the cash rate at its current record low of 1.5 per cent, where is has been now for 21 successive announcements. The previous record was in 1995-1996, where it remained unchanged for 17 RBA meetings. The housing market, which we all recognise as something…
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