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  • NEWS

    Ouwens Casserly celebrates success

    Ouwens Casserly Real Estate recently held their annual recognition event celebrating another successful year for the South Australian company. The Ouwens Casserly Recognition Event, also known as the OCRE, is an annual event where the agency celebrates the success of the financial year and recognises high-performing talent across the organisation in a range of categories. Over the past financial year…

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  • Elite Agent

    50 lessons that will make you a better leader

    The Leadership Diaries, an exclusive set of Elite Agent podcast interviews, turns one next month. Over the past 12 months, and with much more still to come, we’ve discovered leadership is a skill, an art and an essential ingredient for your business to achieve growth. To celebrate the milestone we’ve put together, in no particular order, our top 50 tips…

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    Gawler triumphs at First National SA/NT awards

    The awards recognised the best of First National’s SA/NT agents throughout 2018, with the top 10 individuals and offices now competing for national GEM Awards, which hold the chance of an expenses paid trip to the National Association of Realtors conference in San Francisco this November for top 10 national winners. Acting SA/NT State Chair, Zeta Bennett, says the results…

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    Rally inspires RE/MAX network to think bigger

    ‘Think bigger’ was the theme of the 2019 RE/MAX Australia Rally, held this year at The Star, Gold Coast. Managing Director Michael Davoren officially commencing the day, welcoming and encouraging attendees to do just that – think big! “We’ve chosen ‘think bigger’ for our 2019 rally theme, but it is not just about ‘thinking’. It’s about creating more opportunity for…

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    The Cimino Connection

    If property investment is a numbers game, Michael Cimino is superbly positioned to lead the field. Having spent much of his career as a financial service professional with ‘big four’ practices, he was persuaded to leave his high-profile role at a nationally recognised superannuation consultancy just under 12 months ago to head the property management division of burgeoning Melbourne business Inner…

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    The Harcourts Foundation’s latest funding round sees over $65,000 donated to nine charities

    The Harcourts Foundation, the charitable arm of Harcourts Group Australia, announced grants to nine Australian charities during its most recent quarterly funding round. A total of $66,268 was donated across Australia to benefit charities serving the communities where Harcourts employees live and work. “Over the past six months, a total of $100,128 has been granted by The Harcourts Foundation,” said…

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  • FRANCHISE NEWS

    Belle Property Commercial Launches in the ACT

    In response to Australian Capital Territory’s strong development activity and emerging population growth, Belle Property Commercial has established Belle Property Retail Canberra. With a key focus on leasing and sales of mixed-use developments the office will be led by Director, Nathan Dunn, a highly respected identity in the ACT commercial property industry, and who has the backing of retail property…

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    Ouwens Casserly celebrates excellence at first recognition event

    The 2018 Ouwens Casserly Recognition Event (OCRE) is the first of its kind for the agency and integrates all divisions (Sales, Property Management and Projects) into one event to recognise and acknowledge the efforts of the entire team over the past financial year. With the addition of two new offices, as well as expanding the team to over 100 members, the…

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    2018 REINSW Awards for Excellence finalists announced

    The Real Estate Institute of New South Wales has announced the finalists for its 21st annual Awards for Excellence. REINSW President Leanne Pilkington said it was exciting to see the breadth of talent showcased as finalists for the 2018 awards. “Our awards continue to go from strength to strength, with the best, bravest and brightest that work across the industry…

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  • Elite Agent

    Top takeaways from AREC 2018 Day 2

    For Day 1 highlights click here Audio version of our Day 2 Wrap Tom Ferry – The three pillars of success: Mindset, model and marketing Pt. 2 Be aware of growth killers. These include the addiction to the opinions of others, the addiction to your past and your story, and the addiction to worry. If your website looks the exact…

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  • FRANCHISE NEWS

    RE/MAX Living comes to Burpengary

    Combining new and familiar faces, an ongoing high degree of local market expertise, and consistency of service, RE/MAX Living is now the name of the long-time established RE/MAX Ultimate in Burpengary. Well-known local community identity, businesswoman and licensed real estate agent, Kathy Sweeney, will build on the success of the real estate business as she brings all her business acumen…

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  • SUPPLIER NEWS

    Christmas Comes Early for PropertyTree Customers

    Rockend’s cloud-based property management system PropertyTree has welcomed three new enhancements set to simplify the work-lives of property managers. The first of these features is Invoice Genius, an intuitive tool that simultaneously automates the processing of creditor invoices, and eliminates the laborious task of manually entering these invoices. Beyond digitising invoices and automating workflows, Invoice Genius helps property managers work…

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  • FRANCHISE NEWS

    Ray White international awards celebrates high achievers

    The Auckland business has won the award in the Ray White group for the third year in a row. “We are thrilled, proud and very grateful to our community for their ongoing trust in our team,” said Ray White Remuera principal Megan Jaffe. “We are honoured to again be the number one office, credit goes to the team effort as…

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  • Elite Agent

    Three Steps to Success

    TANJA M JONES HAS joined the ‘head coaching crew’ in Transform 2017. Here she discusses her ‘Steps to Success’ framework which she uses every day in her regular coaching practice, and with #teamtanj in Transform 2017. I remember attending the ‘Million Dollar Agent’ couch conversation with John McGrath and Tom Panos at my first AREC in 2015. Both sat firm,…

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  • EPM

    Bondsure records high uptake, just weeks after its launch

    Bondsure, an insurance company that provides tenants with an option to pay their bonds on an installment basis been making waves within the real estate industry 10 weeks after its launch in October. The product which is specifically aimed at Australia’s growing tenancy market has had over 80 real estate offices signing up to use its services with more expected…

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  • Elite Agent

    What’s the market up to? Which market is that?

    Property market observers are mentioning an apparent shortage of property listings through the spring selling season this year. Reserve Bank of Australia governor, Philip Lowe, has said that inflation is likely to remain low until the economy is such that it generates enough jobs to stimulate strong growth in wages. Until we get past the end of the mining boom…

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    Stefanie Dobro: The Trusted Advisor

    AS A UNIVERSITY STUDENT, 2016 Real Estate Results Network (RERN) Hall of Famer Stefanie Dobro, an associate director at Fremantle-based independent Caporn Young Estate Agents, swore off a job in sales. Yet almost 25 years later, after a being a trusted advisor in politics and academia, Stefanie is now a trusted advisor in all matters property and without doubt one…

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  • INDUSTRY NEWS

    Learn How to Be a Rainmaker and Reinvent the Rules

    TOP REAL ESTATE CONFERENCE RETURNS TO THE GOLD COAST The continuing success of the Australasian Real Estate Conference (AREC) now in its 19th year, is due to its diverse line-up of highly respected international speakers who join Australia’s best as they openly share their secret weapons for success, industry knowledge and life experiences. The two day conference returns for the…

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  • Elite Agent

    Emmy Thies: Passion for People

    EMMY THIES IS THE PRINCIPAL of House Estate Agents in Toowoomba. Having started her own office at the age of 23, just five years later she has a thriving business with a team of 25 people and a bag of prestigious awards. With an unmatched energy, zest, and passion for both real estate and her team, Emmy speaks frankly about…

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    New professional website option for small agents from Console

    Console, an Onthehouse Group company and one of Australia’s leading suppliers of software to the real estate industry, today launched a new product for small and start up property agents: WebChoice Express. Specially developed to give small offices the opportunity to have access to a modular, subscription-based content management system at an affordable price, WebChoice Express is the new, slimline…

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  • Elite Agent

    Tips, Scripts and Moments from AREC 14

    I sat in most of the sessions taking copious notes like many of the attendees, and here are 12 of the top things I took away from this year’s amazing show. 1. Listen, Diagnose, Prescribe From the moment he walked on stage and told everyone to “pretend they knew nothing, and start afresh”, there was not a moment when Tom…

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    RE/MAX launches video contest for a $25k Holiday Grand Prize

    The RE/MAX real estate network launches an Australia-wide competition today (16 June) seeking a winning video that showcases a home; and, in store for its creator is a holiday worth $25,000. “I’ve had many years in real estate,” said RE/MAX Australia Managing Director Michael Davoren, “but I don’t believe I’ve seen a competition as creative, exciting and quirky as this.”…

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    Onthehouse Group Consolidates Brands and Bundles Offerings

    The Onthehouse Group today announced at Ideas Exchange 14 a consolidation of its range of real estate software products under its Console brand, and unveiled a host of complementary upgrades and product bundles for property agents. The move will bring together Console’s existing product suite, and group GatewayLive, LiveAgent, and OnlineAgent with software solutions such as WebChoice, MobileAgent and ClientManager…

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  • EPM

    How do deal with a natural disaster (in real estate)

    Natural Disasters such as floods, earthquakes, bushfires, tsunamis, and storms can have a devastating effect on a community; we have all seen this recently with the flooding in Queensland and throughout Australia. But how do property managers cope with the fall-out from these disasters? Michael Hughes of LJ Hooker Hamilton, was generous enough to give us a first-hand account of…

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