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Real Estate News
Top takeaways from AREC 2021 – Day 1
For the first time, AREC’s program combined three key industry-specific streams – residential sales, property management and mortgage broking. At the halfway point of the two-day event, we thought we’d share our top 10 takeaways from Day 1.
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Thought Leaders Podcast
When is the right time to lead? Andrew Cocks
Richardson & Wrench managing director Andrew Cocks shares his insight into when an agent is ready to step into their own business, the support they need to transition, and the lessons he’s learned in a lengthy business career.
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Real Estate News
Another way to transact property: Transactor teams up with Contracoin
Leading property communication and transaction platform, Transactor, has opened up new avenues by enabling the use of Contracoin: a blockchain real estate platform that allows buyers and sellers to rapidly transact properties anywhere in the world. Transactor, whose foundations are based on taking the friction out of property transactions with world-first innovations, has been quick to welcome the inception of…
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Elite Agent
Matt Lahood shares five tips that will pave the way for real estate success
He's one of the most well-known real estate figures in the country and The Agency’s Chief Executive Officer Matt Lahood has fostered some of Australia's top real estate talent over the past two decades.
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Celebrity Homes
Joan Rivers’ former New York penthouse is ghost-free and on the market
Joan Rivers’ former New York penthouse is back on the market and the good news is the late comedian went to the trouble of having demons exorcised from the residence.
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Super fast customer service in just a few zaps: Anton Babkov & Tom McCarthy
Anton Babkov and Tom McCarthy of Rexlabs explain how Zapier offers unlimited potential to join the software dots, allowing agencies to automate mundane, repetitive tasks.
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Real Estate News
The lesson for Australia out of Victoria’s property tax hikes: two out of three ain’t bad
Victorian treasurer Tim Pallas’s three-pronged strategy to raise an extra $2.7 billion in property taxes over the next four years is a case of two out of three ain’t bad, writes Brendan Coates.
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Real Estate News
Get a first look at Luxe Listings Sydney as Amazon Prime releases trailer
Last week, Amazon Prime announced the premiere date for its hotly anticipated new real estate reality docu-series Luxe Listings and the streaming giant has just released the first trailer.
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Real Estate News
Second place worth celebrating at Harcourts Australia’s awards night
Harcourts Australia had plenty of reasons to celebrate over the weekend. In addition to the company hosting its annual awards night on Saturday, the group also announced it is now the second-largest real estate group in the country.
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Elite Agent
Sam Gamon: Confidence and experience
As a fourth-generation real estate professional, Chisholm & Gamon director Sam Gamon grew up living and breathing the industry. This year marks two decades since Sam officially embarked on a career in real estate and as he tells Kylie Dulhunty, starting out in a difficult market prepared him well for some of the challenges of the past 12 months.
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Real Estate News
Suzanne Somers sells Palm Springs estate following multimillion-dollar price reduction
After years of the property being on the market, veteran television star Suzanne Somers has sold her Palm Springs estate after a dramatic price cut.
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Thought Leaders Podcast
From rookie to rapid expansion: Avi Khan
After opening his first office in the Brisbane suburb of Marsden in 2018, Avi Khan now has three offices across the Logan region under the brand Ray White AKG
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Real Estate News
Regional rent prices rise at three times the rate of capital cities
Rental prices in Australia’s combined regional markets have increased by almost three times the rate as capital city markets over the past year.
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Real Estate News
Demand for housing continues to outpace listing supply volumes
Demand for housing in Australia continued to outpace listing volumes in April, according to the latest data from REA Group.
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Real Estate News
Planner says it’s time to urbanise the suburbs
With many homebuyers extending their property searches to outer-suburban areas over the past year, a leading urban planner says it's time to break the conventional suburban ‘housing estate’ mould.
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Real Estate News
Amazon Prime announces July premiere for real estate docu-series Luxe Listings Sydney
Production has commenced on an unscripted docu-reality series about the Sydney real estate scene.
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Thought Leaders Podcast
How to improve your listing conversion rate: John Hellaby
John Hellaby of MarketBuy shares his expert insight into social media content that makes you the first agent people think of and overcomes two of the biggest listing presentation hurdles before you even walk through the door.
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Real Estate News
Australia’s hot housing market showing slight signs of cooling
Australia’s housing market may be showing signs of slowing down, with an increase in supply and a slight downturn in search activity, according to the latest REA Insights report.
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Elite Agent
The home renovation equation: A personal finance expert explains
Home renovation has long been something of a national sport for many Australians, but community demand for home fix-ups has reached fever pitch since the pandemic.
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Celebrity Homes
Steven Seagal is selling his bulletproof Arizona home
Talk about a bulletproof investment… 1980s and ‘90s action film star Steven Seagal has announced he is selling his Arizona home.
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Real Estate News
The Agency breaks six suburb records on Central Coast in two months
NSW’s Central Coast property market has been booming since COVID history last year and The Agency’s local team have been making hay while the sun shines, breaking a series of suburb sales records in 2021.
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Real Estate News
Property positivity hits one-year low despite rising house values
House values are continuing to climb throughout the country but fewer than half of Australians believe now is a good time to buy property.
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Lessons in Listing – with five top-performers
In this episode of the Elevate Podcast, we’ve tapped into the vault of knowledge we have on hand from some of the best practitioners in the real estate business to cover all angles of securing listings.
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Real Estate News
Australia’s residential real estate value has now surpassed $8 trillion
CoreLogic has announced its estimate of the total value of residential real estate in Australia has now reached $8.1 trillion.
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Real Estate News
Richmond AFL star Dustin Martin earning his stripes as a property investor
AFL superstar Dustin Martin’s post-football prospects appear to be as safe as houses, with the Richmond Tigers star buying up $14 million worth of property in Melbourne over the past few years.
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Real Estate News
Perth prestige property prices power ahead
Knight Frank has released its Prime Global Cities Index for the first quarter of 2021, which shows prime residential property prices are rising across the globe - and Australia is no exception.
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Thought Leaders Podcast
How to be genuinely ‘you’ and win at real estate: Heidi Howe
In this episode of the Elevate podcast, Heidi shares what she learned in the most recent challenge, and also discusses a true community initiative that offers a very real point of difference.
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Real Estate News
Netherlands researchers planning to print their way out of a housing crisis
Netherlands researchers have come up with a concrete solution to address the shortage of housing in the nation - by printing new dwellings.
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Real Estate News
US real estate market booming
Australia is not the only country experiencing a real estate boom in 2021, with new figures from the United States showing national median home values have reached a new all-time.
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Thought Leaders Podcast
How to create your dream team
In this episode of the Elevate podcast, Samantha McLean is joined by a panel of expert leaders who share their insight on building a team and businesses from the ground up.
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Elite Agent
Perth’s property management sector set to celebrate with June’s PM Collective Summit
Perth property management sector is set to celebrate its success, with an industry-specific conference scheduled for next month.
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Real Estate News
House prices record steepest quarterly rise in 18 years
Australian house prices recorded their strongest quarterly increase in almost two decades in the three months to March, according to the latest Domain House Price Report.
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Elite Agent
The biggest Privacy Act mistake you need to avoid
Oh, no! You don’t comply with the Privacy Act as you have been told you don’t need to, but you have fallen into the biggest privacy trap out there.
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Real Estate News
The Agency releases Autumn Property Report, issues interest rate warning
The Agency has just released its Autumn 2021 Property Report, with CEO Matt Lahood pointing out the combined capital city dwelling values rose by 2.8 per cent in March, the fastest rate in 32 years.
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Real Estate News
Burwood’s ZOOM Real Estate unveils fresh new look to service Sydney’s inner west
ZOOM Real Estate in Burwood has long been at the forefront of the market in Sydney’s inner west and the agency has just unveiled its architecturally designed, new-look premises.
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