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Transform
Transform PM Ep 7: BDM Master Tips, Hannah Gill
Thank you our Episode 7 sponsor: Connectnow, a free moving home service for consumers. It helps to find suppliers in your area and arrange them all in the one spot. This service extends to connections for: electricity, gas, internet, phone, pay TV, and water. Coach: Hannah Gill Coaching Transcript: 00:00 Introduction by Fiona Blayney 01:04 It’s the little things that…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
REIV Awards for Excellence Finalists Announced
REIV has announced the finalists for its annual REIV Awards for Excellence. The awards recognise and reward members who have gone the extra mile in pursuit of service, ethics and results. This year’s awards will be presented at the Awards for Excellence Gala Dinner at Crown Towers on Thursday, 27 October. Agency Awards: Best Website Award Think Property & Co. Nelson Alexander Pty…
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EPM
McGrath Central Coast: Redefining Maintenance Efficiency
Leading managing agency McGrath Central Coast, led by Mat Steinwede and Jaimie Woodcock, has combined both cloud technology and creative thinking to achieve exceptional efficiencies, improved customer service, robust KPI reporting and better audit trails of every maintenance task. Previously a portfolio-based office, the move to create a centralised maintenance team for their multiple office locations has been a win…
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Real Estate News
Bondi to outstrip Paddington, Surry Hills
Bondi Beach has become an iconic national brand that will outstrip Paddington and Surry Hills in popularity, according to leading real estate agency Gunning. Gunning Principal Malcolm Gunning said people are beginning to choose Bondi over Paddington and Surry Hills because of the unique offering that Bondi presents. “Bondi is a destination that gives people the ability to be able…
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Elite Agent
Digital Innovation and the Art of Storytelling
ANASTASIA FAI, a media industry entrepreneur who founded the video production agency Style & Image, is the creative force behind an interesting new video approach to property marketing. The short film ‘Sunday Blue’, produced for Besser & Co, showcases a day in the life of a listing at 4/24 Hyslop Parade, East Malvern, in Melbourne. We caught up with Anastasia…
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Transform
Transform PM Ep 5: Team Performance, Julie Davis & Neil Williams
Thank you our Episode 5 sponsor: Agent Dynamics, specialising in team performance coaching, and a business development pathway for Property Managers, Sales People and Principals. Agent Dynamics looks at what you and your team are good at and suggests ways to improve teamwork and increase productivity. Coach: Julie Davis & Neil Williams Coaching Transcript: 00:00 Introduction by Samantha McLean 01:30 Recognising Innate…
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EPM
Are You On Track For 2016?
TAKE A MOMENT to step back and review where you are spending your time, ensuring that it’s on the areas that produce the real results. It seems like only yesterday when I put pen to paper and wrote my goals for the year ahead. Like many of us, I’m now taking the time to review my current achievements. I find…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Belle Property opens dual ‘multicultural’ franchise in Adelaide
Boutique real estate group, Belle Property, has moved in on real estate in Adelaide by opening its first dual franchise. Led by Principal, Calvin Lai, the multicultural real estate team of 27 employees who are fluent in seven languages, are set to deliver a personalised and unique approach to large scale projects and residential real estate. Making the strategic move…
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EPM
Closing The Airbnb Loophole
LISA JEMMESON EXPLAINS THE DETAILS behind the recent Victorian Supreme Court decision in Swan v Uecker, often referred to as the ‘Airbnb case’, where it was found the tenant could not sublet their residential property on short-termstay websites. BACKGROUND The landlord rented her two-bedroom St Kilda apartment in August 2015. The parties entered into a standard form Residential Tenancy Agreement…
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Brand Editorial
Real Estate: Is It All About the Money?
IN HIS NEW BOOK, The 60 Second Entrepreneur, CEO and Co-Founder of the Eview Group Manos Findikakis investigates the role money plays in new agent turnover, and why the remuneration an agent receives is of such importance. HAVE A NUMBER of quotes when it comes to money, the following being my favourite: “We all know that money doesn’t make us…
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Real Estate News
Cody Live expanding digital signboard solution
Cody Live is an outdoor advertising solution that is the first of its kind, creating dynamic signboards for real estate agencies. And this week they were launched in Brisbane with Melbourne, Canberra and Auckland in the coming weeks. The aim of Cody Live is to give vendors and agents more choice and better control of how their properties are represented…
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Elite Agent TV
Transform PM Ep 3: Benchmarking Property Management, Fiona Mott
Thank you our Episode 3 sponsor: Rockend, Property Software Solutions Provider. Rockend provides innovative property management software, strata management software, document management software and real estate trust accounting software. For more information, visit rockend.com.au Coach Fiona Mott Coaching Transcript: 00:00 Introduction by Samantha McLean 01:32 Data Integrity Thank you for this opportunity as well. For those that I didn’t get to meet…
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Elite Agent
The New Real Estate Business Model
TECHNOLOGICAL DISRUPTION means anyone – including vendors – can master the basics of property marketing. So the new value proposition for real estate will be agents as a coach, guiding vendors through a stress-free sales process. Kylie Davis explains. The traditional business model for real estate is being seriously challenged. It is no longer enough for real estate agents to…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Purplebricks Launches in Australia
The UK’s fastest growing online real estate agency has launched in South East Queensland and Melbourne. Purplebricks has launched in Australia, to offer homeowners a proposition of a cheaper method of sale for their home. The “virtual” service provides the support of a licensed and dedicated ‘Local Property Expert’, a flat rate fee, an accessible and transparent online technology platform…
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Elite Agent
The Now Generation – Alex Ouwens and Nathan Casserly
STARTING A REAL ESTATE business and growing it to $10 million in five years is an amazing feat in anyone’s language. For Alex Ouwens and Nathan Casserly their out of the box thinking in terms of business structure, culture, marketing, technology and the future is what sets them apart in an ultra competitive marketplace. Story by Samantha McLean. ALEX OUWENS…
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Real Estate News
Improve your profile on realestate.com.au
An improved Real Estate Agency Profiles platform has been released on realestate.com.au to help agents improve their profile and get more clients. The updated profile system allows agents to showcase their areas of expertise alongside their listings, providing greater benefit to vendors and the agents themselves. The changes are expected to help drive a larger number of enquiries and listings. The…
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Real Estate News
Secrets to success from WA’s home grown real estate heroes
The recent Home Grown Heroes seminar in Perth featured the stories of several successful WA agents – some have overcome hardships and rebuilt their lives and others have quickly carved out successful careers. Here, we look at three of those speakers and reveal their secrets to success. Lara Sadowski, Geraldton Property Group Despite a long string of setbacks in her…
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Real Estate News
hockingstuart salutes outstanding talent at annual awards night
One of Victoria’s leading real estate agencies, hockingstuart, celebrated the achievements of its employees at the agency’s 2016 awards evening on August 11th, with its regional and outer suburban offices leading the charge. Held at the Plaza Ballroom in Melbourne, the evening recognised the individual and office achievements for the past financial year, based on sales growth, market share and customer…
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EPM
Baking Bad: Hidden Dangers for Property Managers
Methamphetamine, also known as ice, ‘P’, or crystal meth, has become a major issue for the housing industry in New Zealand and many states of the USA. It’s growing in use throughout Australia due to the ease with which it can be manufactured and the profits to be made from its sale. Martin La Touche of Narcotect describes how the increasing use…
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Elite Agent
ARPM 2016: It’s a wrap
Here are a couple of tips of the week from ARPM 2016. ARPM 2016 once again, lived up to all of its promises and was full of great speakers including Lisa McInnes Smith, Fiona Blayney, David Thomas, Peter Knight and Matina Jewell just to name a few. We have got plenty of interviews and takeaways from the conference coming up…
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Real Estate News
Laing+Simmons Charity Campaign Raising Thousands
Laing+Simmons Parramatta’s campaign to raise money for medical research as part of its 21st birthday celebrations has got off to a flying start with over $3000 already raised in the first month alone. The award winning real estate agency, which came of age last month, is donating $300 to Westmead Medical Research Foundation (WMRF) for every property it sells from…
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Real Estate News
Radley Property pledges 20% of real estate commission to charity
This week marks the launch of Radley Property, an innovative real estate agency combining property services with philanthropy by pledging 20% of its commission to Australian registered charities. For each transaction, landowners individually donate half of Radley Property’s 20% Pledge to their chosen charity. This donation is made in the vendor’s name, does not impact their profit and is tax…
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EPM
Grow Your Rent Roll and Attract Landlord Appraisals with RentQuotes
If securing new managements is key to delivering growth in your department this year, ensure RentQuotes is part of your online strategy. As Australia’s leading website dedicated to rental property, Rent.com.au offers a number of tools and services to help property managers build their managements. RentQuotes invites landlords looking for a property manager to send details about their new or…
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EPM
How To Lose Your Licence In 5 Easy Ways
Think it could never happen to you? Poor administration, lack of diligence and a few loose ends mean that losing your licence is only too possible, as Natalie Hastings explains. Have you ever seen How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days? It’s a laugh-out-loud rom-com starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson which depicts an array of classic relationship faux…
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Real Estate News
hockingstuart launches training arm: hockingstuart Academy
One of Victoria’s largest real estate agencies, hockingstuart, has announced the launch of its own accredited training arm for those wishing to pursue a career in property. The hockingstuart Academy will offer training programs for those in the real estate industry looking to upskill, as well as a range of accredited qualifications such as the Agent’s Representative Certificate and Full…
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QLD Real Estate News
Raine & Horne continues its Queensland growth with new Greenbank location
Raine & Horne has launched a new office in Greenbank after agreeing to terms with Margaret McFillin from leading local independent real estate firm, Greenbank Real Estate. Raine & Horne Greenbank, located in the Logan City region south of Brisbane, will operate from the existing office at Shop 2, Greenbank Shopping Centre, 15 Pub Lane, Greenbank and will continue to…
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Real Estate News
Nambour Retail Space for Lease
A tenancy in a prominent retail outlet on the main street of Nambour on the Sunshine Coast is being offered for lease for the first time in 80 years by Ray White Commercial North Coast Central. The 130 sqm tenancy at 1A/70 Currie Street, Nambour, is being marketed by Ray White Commercial North Coast Central’s Emily Pendleton. Ms Pendleton said…
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EPM
Selecting The Right Tenant
How do you match the right tenant with the right home or landlord – is it a science, or part intuition? How do you attract the best tenants and what is the right process for selection? Elite Property Manager and Console invited four leading professionals to comment on the challenges they face, what works for their businesses and how they…
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Elite Agent
How community involvement can help you gain a competitive edge
Is your business engaging with the local community in which it operates? If it isn’t, it is missing out on many benefits, not just for those around you but to the bottom line. In this article, Benojo’s Martyn Ryan looks at the many benefits of your agency becoming involved in community programs and how to get started. Getting started Community…
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Elite Agent
Fibonacci rules for real estate agencies
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code may have been the first time you came across Fibonacci numbers, but according to Peter Knight of Property Academy who will be speaking at ARPM 16 in August the magical sequence discovered by Fibonacci in 1202 also applies to real estate agencies. Let me start with the sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377… These numbers are typically the…
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Elite Agent
Targeted Email Marketing: Mining the Gold in Your Database
Previously, Eddie Cetin shared some helpful tips on how to clean up your database and get it fit for a marketing workout. Now he explains how, with a clean database, you can focus on targeted email marketing that maximises retention and minimises unsubscribes. Most agents know email marketing is important, but they struggle to find the time or are unsure…
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Elite Agent
Bridging the Leadership Skills Gap
THE PATH FROM salesperson to leader is often one huge leap with no middle management experience in between. Julie Davis and Neil Williams reveal how to overcome this gap and become a leader worth following. THE QUESTION of good leadership becomes more vexed in real estate because, more often than not, in our industry a career path is often salesperson…
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EPM
The Measure of Success
Are you a numbers person? History shows us time and again that property professionals who are focused on the numbers are those who enjoy the greatest success. This rings true for Peter Hooymans, Ann Rogers, Georgina Mellick, Stephen Fitzsimon and Tim Ear, founders of multi-award winning agency Melbourne Real Estate. Story by Iolanthe Gabrie. CHARISMATIC AND with an energy that…
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Elite Agent
Most Promising New Talent: Ben Munro Smith
STARTING THE TRANSFORM program with the least amount of time in real estate of all the Super Six, Ben Munro Smith impressed everyone from start to finish. Having completed every challenge with his trademark smile and attention to detail he is without doubt a new talent that will continue to shine bright. Here is the story of Ben’s 12-week Transform…
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EPM
Numbers Game – Segmenting Landlords
In his latest book ‘Numbers Game’, Ben White profiles four different types of landlords that have very different needs. APMASPHERE HAS worked with hundreds of agencies over the last eight years,and we’ve distilled our learnings into a series of books. Numbers Game is the third and latest book in this series in which we explore lessons from agencies that have…
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