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FEATURE INTERVIEWS
Standing the test of time: Tony Pickering
The name Tony Pickering is synonymous with Darwin real estate. After 50 years of dedicated service in the industry, the KG Young & Associates director has been awarded the Real Estate Institute of Australia’s top gong – the 2021 President’s Award. Here, Tony shares how he got started in real estate, his long list of achievements and why he’s not…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Recent homeowners aren’t relying on the bank of mum and dad
There’s a pervasive myth that many millennials and recent homeowners are using the ‘bank of mum and dad’ to get their foot on the property ladder. But research from the Great Southern Bank (formerly CUA) has revealed just five per cent of recent homeowners relied on family to secure their first property. Great Southern Bank Chief Customer Officer Megan Keleher…
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Real Estate News
Riverbank House invites nature in to win Queensland architecture award
Wilson Architects’ Riverbank House has been awarded the Robin Dods Award for Residential Architecture at the Australian Institute of Architects’ Queensland Architecture Awards. The home is one-of-a-kind and sits on the banks of the Brisbane River in Highgate Hill, four kilometres south of the Brisbane CBD. Riverbank House is an interpretation of the classic Queenslander, a quintessentially Australian style of…
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Real Estate News
Sydney holds firm despite lockdown, Melbourne enjoys second busiest auction week of the year
Melbourne has enjoyed its second busiest auction week of the year, but all eyes were on Sydney this weekend after the announcement of snap lockdowns in four local government areas.
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Celebrity Homes
Yvette Mimieux’s stunning $45 million Bel Air estate for sale
Home to one of old Hollywood's most glamorous couples, Il Sogno (the dream) has come on the market at US$45 million.
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Client care that converts: Tanja Neven-Jones
In this episode of the Elevate podcast, Tanja Neven-Jones shares the strategies that helped her establish a successful real estate career, not just once, but twice.
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NEW ZEALAND
Housing policy changes have had little effect on the NZ market
Three months on from the New Zealand government’s housing policy, CoreLogic reveals the changes are yet to have a discernible impact on the market. CoreLogic Head of Research Nick Goodall admits it’s “still early days”, after the New Zealand (NZ) government policy was announced on 23 March this year. “It’s hard to disentangle the government’s bright-line extension and tapered removal…
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Celebrity Homes
Acting legend Jack Lemmon’s US$13 million Malibu beach home for sale
Two-time Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon was one of the busiest and most popular movie actors in the last half of the 20th century. In 1971, Lemmon purchased a Malibu Beach house for his family in the Broad Beach celebrity-favoured section of Malibu Beach. The family enjoyed it for decades, creating many happy memories. The stunning beachside mansion is now for sale,…
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Celebrity Homes
Ray White family set to sell Ascot home
The family of real estate giant Ray White are set to sell their cherished Brisbane home. Located in Brisbane’s illustrious Ascot, the classic federation home is scheduled for auction on 17 July with Ray White New Farms leading prestige agent Matt Lancashire. It’s the family home of Ray White Group Chairman Brian White and wife Rosemary, who have owned it…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
How to avoid burnout and improve your performance: Chris Wilson
In this episode of the Elevate podcast, Chris Wilson walks through the physiology of the stress response and offers tools, strategies and techniques that real estate professionals can use to reduce its impact.
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Real Estate News
235 Perth suburbs have median rents below their peaks
The Perth rental market is significantly more affordable than it used to be, with reiwa.com analysis showing 235 suburbs had median house rents below their peak prices in May 2021. REIWA President Damian Collins said the vast majority of Perth suburbs were more affordable for tenants than they used to be. “reiwa.com analysis shows 201 of the 235 suburbs had…
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Real Estate News
The world’s largest housing bubbles
Australian housing prices have been on a record run over the past 12 months, however, a new report suggests it’s nowhere near the biggest bubble in the world.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Over three-quarters of auctions successful this week
Over three quarters of auctions proved successful this week after 2418 properties were taken to auction, resulting in a preliminary clearance rate of 77.8 per cent. CoreLogic noted the volume was again down on numbers predicted earlier in the week, revising down from 2610 with the majority of that drop occurring in Melbourne. Of the 1955 results collected so far,…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
The leadership diaries: Rebecca Halton
Successful agency owner and LJ Hooker Accelerate winner, Rebecca Halton, shares an insight into her leadership approach including the tough lessons she’s learned along the way and the daily habits she’s implemented to achieve success.
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Real Estate News
Boom in Aussies buying up restaurants, pubs, hotels and bars in regional centres
With international borders closed, regional Australia is seeing a dramatic surge in popularity. More people are moving out of the cities and into quaint communities. City slickers are looking for new careers and business opportunities, with regional Australia being bought up at record pace. Manenti Quinlan and Associates Director Leonard Bongiovanni said city residents are being wooed by the “fresh…
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NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand’s property market upswing is nationwide
CoreLogic New Zealand takes an in-depth look at suburb-level property data, revealing a surprising market upswing. Upmarket shopping district Herne Bay remains New Zealand’s (NZ) most expensive suburb with a median value of $3.16 million. However, in terms of value growth, cheaper areas reign supreme. Reflecting better relative affordability and easier access for a wider range of buyers, Manunui in…
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Celebrity Homes
US Olympic boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard lists Los Angeles mansion for US$46.5 million
Gold medal boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard is one of the wealthiest boxers in the world. With an estimated net worth of US$120 million, it’s little surprise the US Olympian’s Pacific Palisades mansion has been put on the Los Angeles property market for a whopping US$46.5 million. It has been nearly three decades since Leonard purchased just two acres of…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
New Laing+Simmons office opening in Sydney’s Rooty Hill
Laing+Simmons Mount Druitt have set up shop in the Western Sydney suburb of Rooty Hill. Headed by Jack and Basel Nahas, the new office will service the growing Rooty Hill, Eastern Creek, Plumpton and surrounding areas. It is set to offer a full suite of real estate services to the local community, including sales, property management, auction services, project marketing…
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Real Estate News
Australia’s residential development market falls to a seven-year low
Just $4 billion of total residential site sales were recorded in 2020. It was well below the 2014 peak of $11.3 billion, according to Knight Frank’s Australian Residential Development Review 2021. The review also found the national apartment pipeline will drop over the next three years, with just 86,400 new apartments planned across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and…
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Elite Agent
The fundamentals to becoming a million-dollar agent
The key to becoming a million-dollar agent is having a hyper-focused mindset. It’s about doing fewer activities well, more frequently and deliberately. It’s about focusing on the fundamentals which have the greatest positive impact within your business. Being hyper-focused is having highly focused attention that lasts a long time. You concentrate on something so hard that you lose track of…
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Elite Agent
Family first: Oren Flamm
Hodges Caulfield is a true family-run business with siblings Oren and Golan Flamm and their sister Eilat Rachmani carefully guiding the agency their father Alex built.
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Thought Leaders Podcast
From setback to comeback: Eoghan Murphy
When Gold Coast agent Eoghan Murphy returned from a stint on reality TV, he feared his appearance on Love Island might have ruined his real estate career.A year later, that’s proven to be anything but the case.
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Elite Agent
Five reasons we think Daniel Hayes should win Big Brother
He’s the quick-witted real estate agent who has made waves for years and is doing the same again on this season of Big Brother. Daniel Hayes has certainly ruffled a few feathers in the Big Brother house so far, but he’s also made some incredibly strategic choices. With his agent mind constantly switched on, it really is no wonder he’s…
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Real Estate News
Sales double in Perth suburbs as first-home buyer activity ramps up
New sales data reveals 10 Perth suburbs have more than doubled their sales volumes in the past year. The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia (REIWA) confirmed the March quarter saw strong sales growth across Perth. There was a 31 per cent increase when compared to the March 2020 quarter, but 10 suburbs stood out with more than 100 per…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
The growth equation: Andrew Duncan
Sorted Services CEO Andrew Duncan is no stranger to starting and scaling a business. He has enjoyed a lengthy career as an entrepreneur in both the tech and real estate space and is all about providing service that scales.
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Celebrity Homes
Which celebrity has the most desirable home?
Everyone loves to peek inside the lives of famous celebrities and now a new study has identified which celebrity homes are the most desirable.
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Real Estate News
Three-quarters of real estate agencies now more profitable than in 2020
More than two-thirds of Australian and New Zealand residential real estate agency office principals are personally taking home higher earnings in 2021 than in 2020, according to a new survey by Juwai IQI. An even higher share of offices – three-quarters – are more profitable today than in 2020, the survey found after interviewing the principals of the 29 offices…
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Elite Agent
May the busiest auction month on record: Domain
May was the busiest auction month on record, according to a recent report by Domain.
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Real Estate News
Acreage property sells well above reserve in online auction
A 10-acre property in Somerville, Victoria has sold for $402,500 above the reserve, after fierce bidding through online platform Openn Negotiation.
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Celebrity Homes
Property where David Bowie re-wrote China Girl for sale
Music-lovers looking to own a slice of ‘80s pop history will be saying, “Oh! You pretty thing” when they see the Nurimbah property where David Bowie re-wrote his smash hit China Girl. Set on the caldera of the extinct Tweed volcano, the 4.56ha property, Wagawn, is for sale with a price guide of $3.25-$3.5 million according to realestate.com.au. Bowie, who…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Fearless and focussed leadership: Geoff Lucas
As the newly-appointed head of The Agency, Geoff Lucas brings a proven track record of business growth and an eye for opportunity to his role as CEO.
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Celebrity Homes
Leonardo DiCaprio buys Modern Family star’s stunning home
Not content to just star in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Leonardo DiCaprio has just bought a A$9.1 million home that would look perfect on the movie’s set. Complete with romantic Juliette balconies overlooking expansive living and dining rooms, DiCaprio bought the Los Feliz home from Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson, according to Top Ten…
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Real Estate News
National rental vacancy rates fall for second consecutive month
The number of available residential properties available for in Australia have fallen for the second month in a row, with the vacancy rate now sitting at 1.7 per cent, according to the latest research from Domain.
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Thought Leaders Podcast
How to win clients with text messaging: Sean Smit
In this episode of the Elevate podcast, Podium's Sean Smit talks through the advantages of SMS over other marketing methods, and how the real estate industry can use it to start a two-way conversation that converts.
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Real Estate News
Sydney property values tipped to rise by more than 20 per cent
House prices in Sydney are forecast to rise by an unprecedented 21 per cent in 2021, with a range of economists and industry experts also tipping the cash rate will remain on hold when the Reserve Bank Board meets on June 1.
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