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EPM
Taking the Step Up: Anthea Economos
Anthea Economos likes to stand on her own two feet. A vivacious and dedicated property manager at Ray White Rockdale, the driven daughter of principal Con has well and truly shed the ‘boss’s daughter’ label. That’s not to say the pair don’t gel like peas and carrots; it just means there’s the utmost respect and appreciation for what each brings to the…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Co-working company WeWork announces a move into brokerage services
A year ago WeWork launched a real estate investment fund; now they’re furthering their interest in the space with a real estate advisory business offering brokerage services in the US. The company is piloting WeWork Space Services, which will act as a representative for companies to help them find office space outside of WeWork’s locations. Currently the plan is only…
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SUPPLIER NEWS
Purplebricks announces launch of Purplebricks Plus
Fixed fee agency Purplebricks have announced the launch of a new service for customers in the UK. In an interview given to the Press Association, the agency said it plans to secure 10 per cent of the agency market share in the UK and launch Purplebricks Plus by April 2019. No details of the product have been provided yet, other…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
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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FRANCHISE NEWS
@realty welcomes back Gwen Toholka and Gail Bernardin
Agents Gwen Toholka and Gail Bernardin have rejoined @realty after a brief hiatus working as independent realtors. Ms Toholka has more than 27 years experience in real estate and Ms Bernardin has 16 years experience in the industry – specialising in acreage sales in the Moreton Bay region. Both agents have returned to @realty in the past two months after…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Knight Frank appoints Head of Institutional Sales for VIC and SA
Knight Frank’s Joint Managing Director, South Australia, Guy Bennett will relocate to Melbourne to take on the newly-formed role of Partner, Head of Institutional Sales, Victoria and South Australia. The move delivers on the firm’s strategic focus globally on Institutional Sales and bolsters the firm’s east coast presence. Mr Bennett will leverage off his national and offshore capital relationships to…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Property management agency Leah Jay appoints new Director
Property management agency Leah Jay has appointed current Operations Manager Cassandra Lantry to the role of Director. The addition of another director marks a new era for the company, which has run under the existing structure for the past 24 years. Ms Lantry joined the company in 2005 as a commercial property assistant, progressing through a variety of roles and…
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EPM: BD & Growth
Property Management in the Year 2058
Cast your mind back forty years to the real estate industry of 1978 in Australia. Being a relatively youthful industry, you might not remember the ‘bad old days’. They were light years from the profession we know and enjoy today. Whilst some things remain the same about success in real estate – prospecting must be part of every day, timely…
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Elite Agent
Monika Tu: Property Entrepreneur
Monika Tu’s career has gone from strength to strength. Since getting her start in real estate in 2009, when she used personal experience to launch Black Diamondz Property Concierge, to being named a finalist at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2018, Monika’s success shows no sign of slowing. It’s easy to see why Monika Tu has made the…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Fearless entrepreneur to speak at Ray White’s Connect 2018
Entrepreneur Holly Ransom is a guest speaker at this year’s conference which brings together the White family businesses of Ray White, Loan Market, Wealth Market, Home Now, Living Here, White & Partners, and Concierge. Ms Ransom is the founder and CEO of disruptive marketing agency Emergent, a company specialising in the development of high performing intergenerational workforces. From interviewing Barack…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Residents say ‘goodbye’ to capital city suburbs
Long-time residents are moving away from capital city suburbs, with many shifting to regional Australia, according to analysis by buyers’ agency, Propertyology. A deep dive by the firm into ABS data revealed tens-of-thousands of big city residents are deciding it’s time to move on to areas such as Bendigo, Cairns, Tamworth and Wodonga. The numbers uncovered 33 regional locations where…
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BEST PRACTICE
Managing your biggest barrier to success: Mark Engelmann
Business owners and leaders often understand the financial implications of engaging an offshore team. Firstly, it is more cost effective to have a low-cost resource doing the non-revenue generating, or low-value, work; secondly, the opportunity cost that it creates by freeing up the local team to focus on revenue-generating work is also very clear. However, the commercial benefits alone are…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Barry Plant Sunbury recognised for outstanding customer service
A testament to the Barry Plant Group’s focus on customer service, the real estate network has once again been recognised by the 2018 Australian Achiever Awards with a group certification for customer service. For the 14th year in a row, every Barry Plant office achieved a ‘Highly Recommended’ status for customer service, with Sam D’Angelo and the team at the…
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Elite Agent
Real Estate’s night of nights to recognise all aspects of property
Exclusive to the Australian market, the AREA Awards focus on recognising and celebrating agents who show excellence in supporting their customers through their property journey. In addition to the regular award categories, this year the awards include four Gold AREAs for Most Influential Woman in the Property Market, Agency of the Year (won by Barry Plant Manningham last year), Agent…
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TECH + SOCIAL
The Future of Work: Special Report
Cloud-based virtual real estate brokerages, offshore labour, and designing and building emotionally and intellectually intelligent buildings will dramatically change the way agents work in the future, experts say. The days of real estate agents existing solely in a bricks-and-mortar office are already dissolving, with US cloud brokerage eXp Realty hitting more than 10,000 agents and uplisting on the Nasdaq Stock Market late last month. The agency…
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EPM: Ask The Expert
Ask the Coach: How to be prepared for a Tribunal
Q. The thought of Tribunal and the process is daunting. How can I be more prepared? One of the first things to remember is to breathe. Tribunal is one of those areas in property management that can prove challenging and often is entwined with an element of stress. One way of reducing that stress is your level of preparation. Being well…
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FEATURE INTERVIEWS
Gift of a Lifetime: Laing+Simmons
What do a pizza, a walk in the park, a haircut, a cocktail and a cup of tea have in common? They’re the key elements in a $50,000 award-winning marketing campaign that successfully promoted the Laing+Simmons real estate brand last year. Entitled Memorable Moments, the campaign took out the Annual REA Excellence Award for Brand Campaign of the Year – Residential. Laing+Simmons Managing Director Leanne Pilkington says…
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EPM: Leadership
The D-Word: Brock Fisher
What strikes me when I think back to the start of my accidental property management career in 1998 is that the fundamentals of what we do are still very much the same. Sure, our trust accounting software is now a bit fancier. We market properties on the internet and take online bookings to view them. We usually do our inspections on an app rather than with pen…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Online offer management system gets high profile agent shareholder
Market Buy, an online offer management system that aims to streamline real estate transactions, has caught the eye of Queensland agent Chris Gilmour who’s joined the company as an equity partner and shareholder. Mr Gilmour is one of the founders of All Properties Group, and a regular speaker at real estate seminars around Australia. He brings a wealth of experience to…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Andrew Ramsey joins The Agency Gold Coast
Andrew Ramsey has made the decision to close his independent agency Black Label Property and join The Agency Gold Coast. Mr Ramsey has sold over $100 million in residential property in the last decade, and has a background in elite sports management. “I am thrilled that Andrew Ramsey has accepted our invitation to join The Agency,” said The Agency Gold…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Prestigious property agency relaunches with new name
Slavko Romic and Anthony Moore are thrilled to announce today the relaunch of their prestige property agency RomicMoore Property. The dynamic duo have provided exceptional service to the eastern suburbs area for over 12 years. The rebrand to RomicMoore Property will see the agency move to an independent structure. It will also enable them to spread their area of service…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Rockstars and politicians head the lineup at Ray White’s Connect 2018
This year’s Connect 2018 conference is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever. Up to 3000 agents and brokers are expected to arrive on the Gold Coast for Connect 2018 on August 13 and 14, bringing together the strength of the White family businesses of Ray White, Loan Market, Wealth Market, Home Now, Living Here, White & Partners…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Elders to open three new offices in July
The Queensland additions includes Toogoom and Northern Beaches offices, while in South Australia the service offering will increase on the Yorke Peninsula, with new franchise locations in Ardrossan and Port Vincent. Elders Real Estate Toogoom and Northern Beaches The new office in Queensland increases Elders’ presence in the sunshine state to 107 locations. High profile agents and experienced agency operators…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Established regional agent brings The Agency to the Hunter Valley
The Agency is further expanding its reach into NSW with established regional agent Charlie Lund and her team joining The Agency. “Charlie Lund and her team have been running an extremely successful and highly regarded real estate business in the Hunter Valley region for over a decade,” Matt Lahood, CEO of The Agency, said. “Charlie is a passionate local resident…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Well known local real estate agents launch new agency in Canberra
Established real estate agents Brett Hayman and Shane Killalea, along with business partner Sue Killalea, are launching a new real estate brand with big vision. Hayman Partners is the brainchild of the trio who have been business partners for 11 years within the limitations of a franchise network. The new brand aims to be agile in all services with an…
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EPM: BD & Growth
Natalie Hastings: Should They Stay, Or Should They Go?
Property management is a people business, best suited to those natural problem-solvers with a positive disposition and a flair for collaboration. But what happens when you do your very best time and again, yet find your days disturbed by an aggressive landlord who is impossible to please? Many principals are loathe to ‘sack’ a landlord – even if their behaviour is…
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EPM: First Person
Problem Personalities: Debbie Palmer
Across the nation we are collectively known as property managers – but we should be more aptly known as people managers or relationship managers. Properties don’t complain, get angry or fail to follow through on requests, but tenants and landlords sometimes do. Managing difficult clients is all about understanding relationships, and people’s emotions and behaviours. More often than not, an…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Real estate trailblazer Di Jones passes away
Real estate industry pioneer Diane Lenore Jones passed away on Saturday surrounded by family. Di Jones CEO Rob Ward paid tribute to Di Jones, who opened her first agency in Woollahra in 1992 and played an active role as brand ambassador until her death. “Di Jones was a remarkable and generous woman who was an inspiration to many,” he said.…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Ray White agents master customer experience at Super Sales Day
The underlying fundamentals of the Sydney housing market remain strong and agents have every reason to be optimistic but they need to change as their customers have changed, according to social researcher Mark McCrindle. Mr McCrindle of McCrindle Research reminded more than 300 Ray White agents at the group’s Super Sales Day – The Modern Customer last week, that they…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Top agents head to Melbourne for Ray White industry event
Agents from all over Australia this week attended an industry function in Melbourne hosted by the leading property group Ray White. More than 100 real estate agents from many different brands – both boutique and other franchise groups – travelled from Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and across Melbourne to compare notes on their markets and performance amid the backdrop of…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
How footy preferences are driving migration choices
It might be hard to believe, but your footy code preference may well influence where you end up living, according to new research by property market analysts Propertyology. The market research firm and award-winning buyers’ agency analysed interstate migration trends over the past 20 years and found a significant correlation depending on whether you are a rugby league or an…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Raine & Horne continues global expansion with third office in Fiji
Leading Australian property group Raine & Horne is escalating its worldwide expansion with the opening of a third office in Fiji in less than 12 months. Raine & Horne Fiji directors, CJ Shergill, Sanjay Krishnan and Aveet Goundar, launched offices in Lautoka and Nadi in July 2017. “Since joining the network, the Fiji team have gone from strength to strength…
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TECH + SOCIAL
Augmented Reality: The Personal Touch by Diana Dugan
How long have you been in real estate? I’ve been in real estate for 10 years. I initially joined local franchise agencies in the Bayside area before starting my own company in 2011. It seems like only yesterday I branched out on my own, with a lot of nerves but also a lot of ideas and determination. How did you…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Award winning agent Jeff Anderson joins @realty
Award-winning real estate agent and avid football fan Jeff Anderson is switching teams to kick goals for fast-growing national real estate network @realty, which has recruited 500 agents in the past four years. Mr Anderson, who was managing director of an agency in Carnegie and has conducted more than 4,000 successful auctions in his 34 years in real estate, is…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Lower North Shore agency wins office design award
A Lower North Shore real estate agency has won acclaim from the design fraternity for an architectural vision that has set a new benchmark for customer experience. LJ Hooker Willoughby | Artarmon has won Silver in the Commercial category of the prestigious 2018 Sydney Design Awards for the design of their office on Mowbray Road, Willoughby. The panel of judges…
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