Search Results for: The Agency WA

  • Elite AgentStefanie Dobro

    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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  • Transform 2016 Coach

    Optimising your profile for the Digital Interview with Steve Carroll

    Thank you our Week 6 sponsor: Vitrine Media Australia. As well as being top of mind for the residents in your BDA, your agency shopfront also helps you stand out. With Vitrine Media LED technology, you can be on the cutting edge of window communications, connecting people to the store 24/7 by capturing their attention, attracting new customers and outpacing the competition…

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  • Transform 2016 Coach

    Develop hyperlocal market knowledge with Claudio Encina

    Thank you our Week 6 sponsor: Vitrine Media Australia. As well as being top of mind for the residents in your BDA, your agency shopfront also helps you stand out. With Vitrine Media LED technology, you can be on the cutting edge of window communications, connecting people to the store 24/7 by capturing their attention, attracting new customers and outpacing the competition…

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  • EPM

    Console Announces Strategic Partnership with PropertySafe

    Console, Australia’s leading supplier of software to the real estate industry, announces a strategic partnership with risk mitigation specialists PropertySafe. The new integration between Console’s GatewayLive property management and trust accounting software and PropertySafe’s Maintenance Manager, enables agencies to achieve a paperless solution, inclusive of full audit trails of maintenance tasks within their office. After signing up for Maintenance Manager,…

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  • Transform 2016 Coach

    The Marketing Makeover Magician – Melanie Hoole

    Thank you our Week 3 sponsor:  Campaigntrack who provided the Super Six a truly amazing offer of investing into their marketing (both personal and property makeovers) a total package worth $15,000 each, total value $90,000.  Coaches: Stu Benson and Melanie Hoole Coaching Links: See how Campaigntrack has provided the Super Six personal and property marketing makeovers here  Video Notes/Transcript 00:00 Introduction and Session Overview:…

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  • Transform 2016 Coach

    Gaining Support for VPA with Stu Benson

    Thank you our Week 3 sponsor:  Campaigntrack who provided the Super Six a truly amazing offer of investing into their marketing (both personal and property makeovers) a total package worth $15,000 each, total value $90,000.  Coaches: Stu Benson and Melanie Hoole Coaching Links: See an earlier article written by Elite Agent featuring Stu Benson on Spring Selling for some timeless tips.…

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  • EPMSuzie Hamilton-Flanagan

    Making the Move

    WHEN IT COMES TO property management, Suzie Hamilton-Flanagan has the experience to know what works. With a career spanning over 30-years starting in South Australia with top boutique agencies Toop & Toop and Harris Real Estate, she has recently made the move to Sydney to continue her journey with BresicWhitney. Suzie tells us what it’s like to ‘make the move’,…

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  • EPM

    How to Pull Off the Perfect Listing Presentation

    ONCE UPON A TIME PROPERTY managers could walk around a prospective client’s property, let the owner know they’d come back to them on pricing and sometimes leave the paperwork. The owner might have even handed over the keys there and then! Today competition has increased considerably and you need to be more prepared. Hermione Gardiner explains how to win the…

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  • Elite Agent

    The Art of Managing Sales People

      The measure of success is directly related to the level of ownership that is inherent in the business plan, plus the consistency with which you deliver it to your team. Focus on that and success will follow. Managing a team that openly approaches you with challenges and solutions is far less stressful than those who come with problems, no solutions,…

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  • EPM

    Making Your Small Business Appear Bigger

    You’re scrolling through Instagram or driving along a local street when you see a shiny new real estate office appear. As a brand, they’ve been in the market for five minutes yet they’re dominating the local market. How is it so? Natalie Hastings investigates. WHO IS THIS force come to take over your home patch? Check out their incredible on-point…

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  • EPM

    A Vision for Property Management

    AUSTRALIA’S PROPERTY LANDSCAPE is changing and the traditional renter stereotypes are making way for a major systemic shift. Renting is becoming a well-accepted and conscious lifestyle choice. The positive news? There’s consistent growth forecast for the years ahead. With over seven million renters in Australia, this large and fast-moving sector is on the rise, replicating global trends. ON REFLECTION, 2015…

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  • EPM

    Grab Your Tickets to LPMA 2016

    The Leading Property Managers of Australia conference will be held at Jupiters on the Gold Coast on 7–8 April 2016. For the past 10 years LPMA has built a strong reputation for presenting conferences with maximum ‘take home’ value for delegates: content designed and delivered by the cream of the industry’s practitioners. At LPMA 2016, the bar is being lifted…

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  • Elite Agent

    Planning Ahead: Revenue vs. Profit

    WHAT SHOULD REAL ESTATE businesses be doing today to make themselves sustainable for the future? Paul Davies gives his opinion. THE MARKET HAS been very strong in most major centres across the country and, as ever with an extended robust period, there will come a time when the market slows down. There is a real possibility ahead for reduced activity,…

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  • EPMJodi Ford

    The Ladder of Success

    Jodi Ford started out as a receptionist and secretary in a real estate office. Now 33 years later, she’s Property Management Director at Coronis, managing one of the largest portfolios in the country. With responsibilities including rent roll growth, customer service and profitability, not to mention career advancement for her team members, she tells EPM about how it all started…

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  • Elite Agent

    Work the Process and Make it Happen

    NO MATTER WHAT YOUR market you can be successful with auctions if you are happy to work hard and build trust. There are numerous comments that tend to indicate negativity, such as ‘it’s all over’, ‘it’s stuffed’, ‘never be any good again’ and, in the world of property marketing, ‘auctions don’t work’. How often have I heard both agent and…

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  • Elite AgentJulie and Neil

    Love me tender: An alternative to auction

    Julie Davis and Neil Williams discuss the advantages for sale by tender. I first started selling residential property by Tender back in 2002 as a result of continually being rolled by the competition. Our major competitor at the time was the premier office of one of the country’s biggest franchises and they were smashing us almost each and every time we…

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  • Elite Agent

    From Bell Ringer to Master Auctioneer

    Following his recent induction to the coveted title of REIV Master Auctioneer, Barry Plant reflects on a skill he has honed over his forty-seven-year career in real estate that has influenced the very culture of his business. THE BARRY PLANT Group is one of Victoria’s most successful real estate franchises, with eighty offices across the state and in excess of…

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  • EPM

    Jessica Rodriguez: Senior Property Manager Peter Leahy Coburg, Victoria

    How long have you been working in real estate? I started back in 2006, so it’s almost nine years. What are your qualifications? I completed a Certificate III in Real Estate (property management/traineeship) along with my agent’s representative course when I first began my career. I then took my Certificate IV/full licence. I was recently awarded Property Manager of the…

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  • EPM

    Overcoming Owner Objections

    AS A PROPERTY MANAGER, you’re almost always likely to face questions or objections from the owner of the property. Whether it’s for routine maintenance, emergency repairs, lease renewals or property vacancies, you need to know what you’re talking about so you can be sure you’re giving the property’s owner the right advice. Story by Lauren Kropp. OVER THE LAST decade…

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  • EPM

    Louise Noakes: Justin Ferguson Property Specialists Cammeray

    When did you start in real estate? I started my real estate career over 13 years ago, back in 2002. What made you choose a property management career? From an early age I was interested in real estate. This was probably due to the fact that I come from a family with a background in property valuation. Initially I thought…

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  • CASE STUDIES

    Award winning Baffle Creek Agent: Sue Robertson

    Sue Robertson came across beautiful but remote Baffle Creek in the Gladstone region of Queensland by chance. She is extremely passionate about the Baffle Creek area and has taken out several awards at both state and national levels for highest number of rural sales. BAFFLE CREEK1 is on the Queensland coast, approximately one hour from both Gladstone and Bundaberg. The…

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  • EPM

    Experienced PM Marketers: What works and what are they doing in 2016?

    RENT ROLL GROWTH is one of the most important topics for both agency principals and property managers, and how you choose to market your business is a significant part of that. Elite Property Manager and Console invited four leading professionals to comment on what has worked in marketing, what are the challenges and what the plan is for 2016. Chaired…

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  • Brand Editorial

    9 Tips to Post a Successful Property Listing

    HOW DO YOU give a listing everything it needs to make sure you get short listed good tenants? Here is a guide from the experts at rent.com.au. SHOW OFF YOUR BEST FEATURES Feature descriptions are where the real fun begins. Words do an amazing job of marketing your rental. There is serious value in your ability to write well, so…

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  • Brand Editorial

    Human Resources – Virginia Brookes

    In Issue 08 of Elite Agent we had six experts provide their top tips for 2016 in our special feature 30 top business boosting ideas. Here are the top five from Virginia Brookes of Resolver Recruitment. Success means different things to different people. We all start climbing the career ladder on the same first step and focus on a different outcome that…

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  • EPM

    Why You Can’t Afford To Miss PMC2016

    It’s that time of year again! Time to get your tickets to the biggest property management conference in this part of the world, PMC2016 (formerly the Wealth Conference). As well as 30 sessions with key industry figures, you can take part in profit benchmarking workshops, a tribunal moot court, a BDM competition and a study tour. Apmasphere’s Property Management conference…

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  • EPM

    The Extra One Per Cent: Anthony Cardinale

    ANTHONY CARDINALE IS the Principal of Barry Plant Preston. Passionate about property management, he believes there are three aspects to creating both a successful business and property management portfolio: to improve it by just one per cent every day, include a personal touch and become an expert in communication. Story by Samantha McLean. STARTING OUT AS an accountant and toy…

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  • National

    Lawlab Launches National Conveyancing Partnership Program

    National legal property services specialist, Lawlab, has announced a new referral program to reward the growing number of Australian real estate agents helping their clients secure a property sale or purchase better, smarter and faster. Gone are the days of endless emails, phone calls, meetings and paperwork to secure a property transaction – Lawlab uses the Rundl property network to…

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  • EPM

    Extreme Property Management

    WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Some property managers will never have to experience the smell of death when walking into a property that they are managing. Many will never see a fully equipped drug lab set up. Many will never experience a threatening client over the phone or in person, or feel unsafe when visiting a property with a client. Would you…

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  • EPM

    PMs and Owners stand to Win with Digital Solar Partnership

    Property management business solutions company, ireviloution, has partnered with a game changing digital solar technology company, Matter, to help positively disrupt the property management industry. Matter has launched Digital Solar, a world-first technology bundle that converts solar systems into micro-utilities, with benefits for every player in the property market. The Australian start-up is set to shake up the way property…

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  • Brand Editorial

    Shopfront – Mike Toweel

    In Issue 08 of Elite Agent we had six experts provide their top tips for 2016 in our special feature 30 top business boosting ideas. Here are the top five from Mike Toweel of Vitrine Media. FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE LASTING IMPRESSIONS Why settle for anything less than an absolute wow when your potential client sees your place of business for the first…

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  • PROSPECTING + LISTING

    Old vs New

    BOB Dylan sung that the times were changing, and it’s an adage that rings true in today’s real estate world. That’s not to say that everything old is now worthless, but it’s equally true that everything old is not new again. Instead there are new, modern ways to approach age-old processes to ensure you, as an agent, are performing at…

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  • EPM

    5 Steps To Designing An Effective Ideal Week

    TIME MANAGEMENT USING ‘THE IDEAL WEEK’ as a concept may seem simple enough. However, the fact remains many principals and their property management teams are still struggling with being as productive as possible with their available working hours. Luckily, help is at hand with Jo-Anne Oliveri’s top five tips on organising your week for success. IN ORDER TO DESIGN truly…

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  • Elite Agent

    Gaining Acceptance of Auctions in Any Marketplace

    EVER TRIED AN AUCTION AND it didn’t come off as planned? Has a trainer or boss told you auctions don’t work or that they aren’t worth the effort? Are you in an area where they just aren’t the done thing? Have you ever lost a listing because you pitched for auction and the vendor wanted private treaty? One of Australia’s…

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  • Elite Agent

    EXP Realty: Connecting Agents in The Cloud

    KEEPING UP TO DATE WITH technology is a priority on most business owner’s lists, but for Glenn Sanford, CEO of eXp Realty, technology has become the backbone for success. eXp Realty is a unique agent-owned cloud brokerage that is leading in innovation by bringing the team together in a virtual office. STARTING IN 2009 with just 25 agents, eXp Realty…

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  • Elite Agent

    When Technology Delivers a Stronger Human Connection

    KYLIE DAVIS REVIEWS THE LATEST in technology from the recent Inman Conference that can help you enhance your personal relationships. DESPITE BEING a forward- thinking  technology convention, one of the key takeaways from the recent Inman Connect 15 conference was the return of genuine human relationships in real estate. Machines and high-end tech can help…

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