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Real Estate News
Stable population growth to support building activity
Population growth figures released this week are good news for the residential building industry, according to the Housing Industry Association. The latest ABS data shows Australia’s annualised population growth rate remained at 1.6% during the March 2019 quarter. HIA Economist Angela Lillicrap said the stable population growth is a welcome development for the residential building industry as it recalibrates to…
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TECH + SOCIAL
Protect yourself, your business and your data from hackers
Australia’s strong economy, along with high rates of internet and new technology adoption, has made our country, a lucrative target for attacks. Here’s two ways to protect yourself from hackers. Imagine this: Your client is ready to purchase their first home! You share bank details with them via email and SMS. Unfortunately, this leaves you…
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Elite Agent
Property giant Ray White kicks off Australia’s biggest game of Hide & Seek
Leading agency Ray White has just launched its latest brand campaign called Hide & Seek, a playful take on the childhood game in a bid to entice both buyers and sellers into the market. The property giant’s franchised network of more than 1000 offices sold just over 75,000 homes, worth $40.7 billion across Australasia despite the…
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EPM: Customer Service
What to do about that bad review
Today I want to focus on rating websites, which is an area we all love. There are so many to choose from, and you need to work out which ones will get you the most leverage and best position online, so you’re visible to the consumer. The problem is how do we get the consumer to share across all review…
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Elite Agent
Weekly Auction Wrap: Has the clearance rate topped out?
While it was another strong weekend across the country for auctions, we’ve had the first downtick in a number of weeks, which could signal that the surge in the clearance rate is starting to ease. Over the weekend, the latest Corelogic data has shown 75.7 per cent of homes sold at auction across the country, marking what is expected to…
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Real Estate News
REIQ launches blockchain-based digital tenancy agreements
The Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) is set to deliver fully digitised residential tenancy agreements using blockchain-based technology. The proptech innovation will see residential tenancy agreements able to be executed as a digital smart contract in Queensland by the end of this year. The groundbreaking system has the potential to transform the way that tenancy agreements are transacted across…
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Real Estate News
Ray White South Australia celebrates its top performers of 2019
Almost 450 guests attended the annual Ray White South Australia state awards at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Friday September 13 to celebrate the achievements of the top offices and individuals throughout the network. Ray White SA CEO Matt Lindblom said it has been a very successful year for the network as its members conducted…
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Real Estate News
What are neo banks and can they compete?
Last week, Australia’s neo banking market is significantly heated up with 86 400 officially opening its doors, and neo-rival Xinja receiving its full banking licence from APRA. What are neo banks? Neo banks are digital banks, controlled from your mobile phone typically with a customer service platform within the app. Already at large in the UK, Europe and US, Australia…
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Real Estate News
Hills business builds a winner
A Hills District family business has won two awards at this year’s prestigious Master Builders Association (MBA) Awards night and was also a finalist for 2019 Master Builder of the Year. Chateau Architects + Builders, located in Castle Hill, was established nearly 50 years ago by Malcolm McDonald, to build quality custom design homes and provide an alternative to project…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Starting a real estate business in a niche market – Adrian Wilson
With nearly 20 years of real estate experience and an MBA under his belt, Adrian Wilson is a multi-award-winning real estate agent who is now conquering the Sydney City apartment market via his new venture Ayre Real Estate, an agency that is specialising in high-rise apartments.
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Eastern Suburbs agents take home top awards for Ray White
Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs dominated the annual Ray White New South Wales awards, with Double Bay taking out several of the top honours, and TRG agent Gavin Rubinstein named No 1 sales agent for the seventh year in a row. Some 900 real estate agents and guests celebrated their achievements in Sydney at the weekend, with Ray White Double Bay picking…
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Real Estate News
Luxe off-the-plan sales in hot demand in Eastern Suburbs
At a time when some off-the-plan projects are doing it tough in Sydney, Ray White Double Bay agent Daniel Ungar has sold four luxury apartments worth more than $13 million in Rose Bay. With more than 16 years sales experience, Mr Ungar is a Ray White elite performer who was born and raised in Vaucluse. He knows Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs…
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Real Estate News
Henderson kicks off spring sales with a bang
The Gold Coast’s spring property selling season has started with a big bang for the team from John Henderson Professionals Mermaid Beach who smashed out nearly $10 million in sales this week. Of the 14 properties up for sale at the Hendersons’ Spring Auction Spectacular on Tuesday, 10 were sold on the night for a combined total of almost $10…
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Brand Editorial
Highlights from Street MBA Melbourne tour
For Street MBA tour #2 we headed to not so sunny Melbourne, and what an insightful tour it was. We had three well-respected agencies on the agenda and were hosted by exceptional operators: Sophie Lyons and Sam Nokes from Jellis Craig, Simon Fung from Woodards and Evan Thornley from LongView (aka the quiet achievers). Unsurprisingly, key takeaways for this tour…
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Real Estate News
LJ Hooker helps make sick kids’ lives a little easier
The no-reserve House for Life charity auction has raised $986,000 valuable dollars for Mater Little Miracles, a charity devoted to helping sick and premature babies. The House for Life project by Plantation Homes saw the delivery of a stunning custom four-bedroom, two-storey Hamptons-inspired home, which was auctioned at The Surrounds master-planned community at Helensvale. This year, Plantation Homes welcomed land…
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Real Estate News
Home lending bounces back in the lead up to spring
New ABS data released this week shows home lending is back with a bang, posting a 5.1 per cent jump month-on-month in new home loans settled in July. Owner-occupiers saw the biggest growth, increasing 5.3 per cent in value in July compared with June figures, in seasonally-adjusted terms, excluding refinancing. Investors have continued their come-back into the housing market, with…
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Elite Agent
Weekly Auction Wrap: The buyers keep coming as spring arrives
The traditional spring selling season has officially begun, but it’s still the buyers who remain in control at auctions around the country. This weekend saw Sydney finish with a preliminary auction clearance rate of 83.1 per cent while Melbourne was also higher at 76.6 per cent. Nationally, the clearance rate was an incredibly strong 77 per cent. However, the number…
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Real Estate News
Leah Jay celebrates 25 years
Pioneer, Leader, Innovator, Advocate. These are just some of the words that are used to describe Leah Jay, the woman behind the first and one of the most awarded property management companies in NSW. Opening her property management company in 1994, Leah was branching out into the unknown. “People thought I was crazy and told me it wouldn’t work,” Leah…
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Real Estate News
First home buyers surge in July
First home buyers are continuing to take advantage of a less competitive environment and more affordable house prices, according to the Housing Industry Association (HIA). HIA economist Angela Lillicrap said yesterday’s ABS Lending to Households and Business Data for July indicated the number of loans to first home buyers was up by 1.3 per cent for the month and 4.0…
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Real Estate News
Propertyology names 53 markets with good upside potential
Regional towns are driving buyer confidence and price growth in the property sector, with 53 locations across the country identified as being on the cusp of stronger market conditions, according to new research. Propertyology’s latest report analysed the fundamentals of property markets across Australia’s 500-plus municipalities and considered leading indicators such as the average time to sell a dwelling, the…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Jason Rose – Optimising Vendor Marketing Campaigns
Jason Rose began his career in real estate back in 1987, specialising as an auctioneer, traveling all around Australia. He was always determined to be the best in his business, but realised he wanted to transition to other parts of the industry. Spending some time as a real estate salesperson, business development manager, co-owner of…
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Real Estate News
New Property Tree dashboards reinvent agency reporting
Agency owners and operators who use Rockend’s Property Tree will notice a new change to dashboards – and it’s set to reinvent agency reporting. The new, re-imagined and enhanced set of dashboards offer access to a richer set of visually appealing reports, fuelled by real-time data, that are customisable by the user. The new release includes five dynamic dashboards available…
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Real Estate News
LJ Hooker Avnu boosts North Shore expansion with two new teams
Two top Savills teams have made the move to LJ Hooker Avnu, as it continues its rapid expansion across the Sydney’s North Shore. The team consists of three sales agents, headlined by Stephanie Hearne who has been ranked as one of Australia’s top agents, and three property managers lead by Max Ma. Ms Hearne, who…
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Real Estate News
LJ Hooker and Damien Cooley contribute to a miracle
A Queensland agency has forfeited its sales commission for the auction of a high-end Hamptons-style home as part of a fundraising drive set to benefit premature and unwell babies. LJ Hooker Pacific Pines Helensvale is selling and marketing a no-reserve auction for the Mater Little Miracles this Sunday. Leading national auctioneer Damien Cooley will handle the gavel on the day.…
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NSW Real Estate News
Bondi agency hits the trifecta
A Bondi agency has sold three homes in the same street in one week – a situation the sales agent describes as “unheralded” in his 30 years operating in the exclusive eastern suburb’s property market. Raine & Horne Double Bay/Bondi Beach Principal, Ric Serrao, who sold the three properties in conjunction with his colleague Mark Yeats, said the three classic semi-detached…
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Elite Agent
The number one reason partnerships fail
Many businesses are owned by more than one principal. Sometimes these multipleprincipal businesses are family businesses with one spouse looking after sales and the other looking after property management and back office. Sometimes, they are successful businesses with unrelated principals working together. However, not all partnerships are successful. Many of them fail. There can be a whole range of reasons…
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Real Estate News
Ray White welcomes high-profile agents in NSW and Vic
Ray White has welcomed two established agents to their growing team, with Trevor Byrne rebranding his business Ray White Carnes Hill in south-west Sydney, and Helen Jens recently opening the doors to the newest Ray White business in Kyneton in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges. Both agents come with a wealth of experience and renown within their respective communities. Mr Byrne has worked…
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Real Estate News
House prices jump across the country
Buyers are coming out in numbers in Australia’s two major cities and it was the driving force behind the first big jump in house prices that we’ve seen in many months. According to the latest data from CoreLogic, Sydney house prices rose by 1.6 per cent, while Melbourne jumped by 1.4 per cent. Across the country, dwelling values increased by…
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Elite Agent
Weekly Auction Wrap: Are the boom times back?
It’s been another strong weekend for auctions across the country as the clearance rate remains at boom-time highs. Sydney had a preliminary auction clearance rate of 78.9 per cent while Melbourne was also strong at 76.1 per cent. These are the same types of numbers that we were seeing in the recent housing boom in mid-2017. Across the country, the…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
100 episodes of Elevate – Claudio Encina, Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards
Claudio Encina takes the host chair asking the burning questions about how the podcast started, some of our favourite moments, and how to wrangle content.
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Elite Agent
“The Cheat is not the Treat” (or what I learned during a 30-day challenge – and beyond)
Living your best life means something different to every person and it doesn’t have to mean fame, fortune or a million dollars in GCI. Your definition may be drastically different from that of your spouse, partner or boss, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The important thing to remember is that it is never too…
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LEADERSHIP
Martin Millard: From humble beginnings
Martin Millard has been through the wringer and come out the other side. He’s still a little crinkled, definitely more enlightened, and has a dry, but earnest, sense of humour. Unorthodox is the only way to describe the Harcourts Solutions Managing Director’s journey in real estate. It’s a career that started 19 years ago with Martin wearing a borrowed suit…
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Elite Agent
Weekly auction wrap: It’s official – clearance rate at highest level in two years
It’s been another strong result for auctions across the country as the clearance rate hit a two-year high. Again it was Sydney and Melbourne leading the charge with Sydney coming in strong with a preliminary clearance rate of 84.7 per cent, three per cent higher than last week. Melbourne was also strong with their preliminary rate almost hitting 80 per…
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Real Estate News
Property Tree surpasses 3500 customers as cloud adoption increases in Australian real estate industry
Almost twice as many agencies now use cloud technology over server-based software, according to research by Rockend, who note 62 per cent of property management agencies rely on the cloud in an increasingly fragmented market. MRI Software Company, Rockend, is seeing this within its own cloud-based suite, with Property Tree surpassing the 3500 active customer mark this month. According to…
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Elite Agent
Ray White Victoria and Tasmania celebrates 2019 winners
More than 1,100 guests descended on the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre for the annual Ray White Victoria and Tasmania state awards on Thursday August 22 to celebrate the top offices and individual achievers throughout the leading network. Ray White Victorian and Tasmanian CEO Stephen Dullens welcomed everyone and reminded them all that the leading…
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