The 70-30 split that defines a co-operative real estate network
As compliance costs rise and cross-brand talent wars rage, First National CEO David Edwards argues the future belongs to networks that enable local entrepreneurship rather than dictate it.
Darwin and Geelong take top spots for 5% deposit first-home buyers
Led by Zuccoli, Top End suburbs outperform major capitals on affordability, capital growth, and rapid sales turnover.
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,…
NZ sellers now wait 10.4 years to bank a profit
Cotality's latest Pain and Gain report shows profitable resales at a near 14-year low, with Auckland and Wellington…
Renting for life is now the plan, not the fallback, for many tenants
Modelling cited in the report suggests almost half of younger Australian households will still be renting privately past…
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.
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.
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.
Pancho Mehrotra: What Ted Lasso understands about leading people
Ted Lasso never talked about winning – he talked about effort. That choice of language is the whole reason his team followed him.
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…
Top of the Props 2026 finalists take aim at property industry’s biggest pressure points
The lease mistakes costing you repeat commercial clients
Harcourts' head of commercial argues the real test of a lease comes years later, and sets out five common mistakes agents should steer clients away…
The behaviour you walk past is the behaviour you accept
Leadership in real estate is often associated with position. Titles, seniority and hierarchy can create the perception of authority, but…
How good agents learn from feedback without being ruled by it
Four practices for taking feedback seriously without taking it personally.
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…
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,…
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…
Shorts
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…
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…
How to Become the Answer AI Gives When Sellers Ask “Who’s the Best Agent?”
How AI-Powered DISC Profiling Can Win You More Listings
Stop Selling to Everyone: How AI Buyer Personas Can Transform Your Next Listing Presentation
The AI Edit Ep. 11: Your vendor isn’t online – here’s how AI can still help
Teach ChatGPT to Write Like You – Not a Robot
Watch ChatGPT Draft a Real Estate CMA all on its own
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