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5 Trends That May Influence Property in Australia
THEY SAY THAT THE ONLY constant is change, and this is especially true of real estate. Architectural preferences change, new materials become available, construction methods take advantage of the latest technology, home layouts become more in tune with demographic and social changes, and many other factors begin to influence what buyers want – and how real estate professionals should market…
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Is Crowdfunding real estate a real possibility
2015 SAW THE AUSTRALIAN property market in many areas continues its stellar run. In fact, rising property values have meant that some investment in the great Australian dream is out of reach. However, in the future, there may be an alternative: the opportunity to pool funds with others or make large numbers of investments through crowdfunding. WHAT IS CROWDFUNDING?Crowdfunding is…
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A Day in the Life – Hayley Mitchell
WHAT DOES A DAY IN THE LIFE of a property manager really look like? Fiona McEachran, marketing manager for Console, spent a day with Hayley Mitchell from Mitchell Property Management in Victoria to find out. Hayley, what is a typical day like for a property manager? A typical day in property management? I don’t think there is one! You can…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Wise Help for Subdividing Land
Subdividing land is becoming increasingly common in inner city suburbs around Melbourne. Investors list the use of existing land, potential for higher collective financial return, and the ability to keep one or more properties and sell remaining dwellings, as the most appealing benefits of land subdivision. However, potential difficulties easily arise. Wise Real Estate Advice enhances the subdivision experience from…
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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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Sales Staff Pay-packets: What’s Working?
Enquiries regarding commission splits have well and truly jumped in the last couple of months. Many commission arrangements reset on 1 January each year, so now is a good time to reflect on the effectiveness of your current commission structure to drive your strategic objectives. JUST WHEN I thought I had seen it all with commission splits, another variation comes…
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Annual rental growth lowest on record, Core Logic
2015 was a lacklustre year for rental growth in Australia with rents increasing by just 0.3% in 2015; not exactly the news investors are looking to read about but good news for those looking to rent according to CoreLogic RP Data research analyst Cameron Kusher. “We’ve never seen rental growth as sluggish as it is at the moment. Furthermore, we’re expecting to see more of…
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CASE STUDIES
Tristan Tomasino: Director and Senior Auctioneer, Biggin & Scott Yarraville
Celebrating industry leaders who have dramatically boosted their sales performance in a year, Tristan Tomasino recently beat 39 other entrants to win Josh Phegan’s ‘Changed Agent’ award. Having overcome some serious personal and workload challenges, it appears that the sky is the limit for his young and dynamic business in Yarraville, Melbourne, where the next goal is to help others…
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Brand Editorial
Direct Connect Extends Partnership Reach to Insurance, Smoke Alarms And Conveyancing
YOU MAY ALREADY BE USING THE SERVICES OF DIRECT CONNECT; as one of the biggest connection companies in Australia they have been helping people move house for the past ten years. What you may not be aware of are some of the fantastic new services on offer from Direct Connect, making life even easier for your clients when it comes…
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Scott Jones: PRD Nationwide Wagga Wagga
When did you start in real estate, and what made you choose a property management career? I started in December 2008, so that’s coming on for eight years in the industry. Having completed my HSC, I was unsure what I wanted to do. I had a family friend in real estate and that ignited my interest, and I started working…
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CASE STUDIES
Anthony Gattuso: Auctioneer and Associate, Woodards Carlton
A veteran of Melbourne’s prestigious real estate market of the inner north, Anthony has sold in excess of 800 properties in his 15 years of practice. A true fixture of the Carlton community, Anthony is as much as part of the ambiance of Lygon and Rathdowne Streets as Cinema Nova and Brunetti. An auctioneer of note, his work is informed…
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Elite Agent
The potential of drone technology
KARIN BARSCHOW FROM Top Snap takes a look at the potential of drone technology after her ‘geek week’ at the Connect Show in Melbourne earlier this year. UAV, UAS, RPA, RPAS, UACS, drones – confused? So was I! Let’s just call them all drones for the sake of simplicity, although the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s (CASA) preferred term is RPA…
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Tips for Successful Spring Selling
WHILE THE WEATHER may still be chilly, it won’t be long before the sun shines on the traditional spring selling season in a couple of months. So the time to prepare is now! We asked Stuart Benson of Domain to share his thoughts on how to maximise your time now to maximise this important time of the year. What will…
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Foreign Buyers: Are They A Positive For Australia’s Housing Markets And Economy?
DR ANDREW WILSON, Senior Economist at Domain Group, analyses the findings of the recent Parliamentary Enquiry into the effects of overseas buyers on the real estate industry, including how increases in foreign students are driving purchasing and rental activity. AUSTRALIAN HOUSING markets have generally activated over the past three years through a significant improvement in affordability and confidence. The sharp…
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Hannah Gill: Beyond Business Development
HANNAH GILL FROM Independent Property Management (IPM) in the ACT is no ordinary BDM. She is highly motivated, continually striving for excellence, career driven and winner of numerous industry awards, including the REIA Property Manager of the Year in 2014. Currently managing a team of 12 and a fortnightly marketing magazine while maintaining an enviable list-to-lease conversion rate of her…
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CASE STUDIES
Anthony Lapadula: Jellis Craig Northcote, Victoria
Anthony Lapadula has been in the real estate industry for 10 years. He joined Jellis Craig in 2007, initially in the Ivanhoe office, and is now a senior sales consultant and auctioneer. Anthony specialises in Melbourne’s inner north market, particularly Northcote, Fairfield, Ivanhoe, Ivanhoe East and Eaglemont, concentrating on the $1m to $4m price bracket. He has been recognised by…
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Winning Consistency: Tim Longmore
Tim Longmore is a Senior Property Consultant and Auctioneer at Noel Jones’ newest office in Mitcham. He was an REIV Agent of the Year finalist in 2014, and runner-up Salesperson of the Year for the Noel Jones Group. The Mitcham area of Melbourne, Victoria not only offers a diverse range of homes dating from the 1950s and 1960s; there are…
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Think Bigger
REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY COACH, mentor, thought leader, CEO and now star of the TV series Shark Tank, John McGrath spoke frankly and exclusively to Elite Agent about why today’s agents need be “straight-talkers”, how he feels about current developments with portals and property marketing, agent ethics, integrity, and community. In Part One of our two-part interview, John discusses how agents…
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Interest Rates – How Low Can They Go?
IN FEBRUARY THIS YEAR the Reserve Bank of Australia once again lowered the cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.25 per cent, the lowest we have seen since the 1950s. Some economists say they would not be surprised if we see the cash rate fall to 1.5 or 1.75 per cent. RIGHT NOW IN AUSTRALIA, the available information suggests…
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School Zones – is the home you want to buy in the right school catchment area?
Real estate agents say securing a home within a boundary to a high performing school can add hundreds of thousands of dollars to a purchase price. Many buyers now say, “Zone first, postcode second”. To help assist property searchers, Domain has now launched the new Domain School Zone feature where parents can search for their property knowing which school catchment…
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BEST PRACTICE
Compliments of the Season
ANGUS RAINE, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN AND CEO of Raine & Horne has a couple of things on this year’s Christmas list. IT’S BEEN A FANTASTIC year for real estate markets across Australia and for the Raine & Horne network. Plenty of homeowners and investors have enjoyed excellent growth, while Raine & Horne has increased its reach with 25 new offices joining…
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How to Avoid Missing Out on the China Opportunity
ANDREW TAYLOR, CO-CEO of Juwai.com, discusses the advantages of embracing the Chinese market. WHY HAVE Australia’s four largest real estate networks all signed exclusive agreements to market their listings in China? It’s because the knowledge is finally sinking in that Chinese buyers have become a permanent part of the Australian real estate market. Whether they are here to invest, immigrate,…
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Outperforming The Market
A STRONG MARKET CYCLE over the past 12 months has led to increased revenue and profit for residential real estate agents nationally, and with it a new sense of optimism across the industry, says Daniel Evans of Macquarie Business Banking. MACQUARIE BUSINESS Banking’s 2014 Residential Real Estate Benchmarking Report revealed the top-performing residential real estate agencies across the country combine…
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Tips, Scripts and Moments from AREC 14
I sat in most of the sessions taking copious notes like many of the attendees, and here are 12 of the top things I took away from this year’s amazing show. 1. Listen, Diagnose, Prescribe From the moment he walked on stage and told everyone to “pretend they knew nothing, and start afresh”, there was not a moment when Tom…
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Onthehouse Group Consolidates Brands and Bundles Offerings
The Onthehouse Group today announced at Ideas Exchange 14 a consolidation of its range of real estate software products under its Console brand, and unveiled a host of complementary upgrades and product bundles for property agents. The move will bring together Console’s existing product suite, and group GatewayLive, LiveAgent, and OnlineAgent with software solutions such as WebChoice, MobileAgent and ClientManager…
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Our Exclusive chat with Chris Heller
Chris Heller achieved his real estate license in 1983 when he was 20 years old, and started selling properties in 1989. That’s more than 3,100 houses in the last 27 years. Chris arrives in Australian in less than two weeks a keynote presenter for two sessions at the Ideas Exchange in both Sydney and Melbourne. Still known as ‘Heller the…
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Traditions to Tech Geeks, Compton Green
Compton Green are one of the oldest and most widely recognised brands in Victoria, and are well known for superstar Auctioneer Adrian Butera who will be speaking at Ideas Exchange this year. Going strong since 1926; today they are blazing a trail in the industry through their cutting edge use of technology. Let’s start by unveiling real estate cobweb territory.…
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realestate.com.au launches neighbourhoods
realestate.com.au has unveiled rich, in-depth content and imagery on Australian suburbs at realestate.com.au/neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods now helps consumers understand the lifestyle, people, typical streets and day-to-day activities and amenities an area has to offer, to enable them to find out if a suburb meets their lifestyle needs. For example, Prahran in Melbourne is described as “a blend of glamorous South Yarra…
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Real Estate News
High-speed rail could help Sydney’s housing affordability issues
Leading real estate group Raine & Horne says an east coast high-speed rail (HSR) network between Brisbane and Melbourne will not only underpin long term property prices in regional centres in NSW, Victoria and South East Queensland, but also help relieve some of Sydney’s affordability pressures. According to one recent media report, the high-speed rail linki is back on the…
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First National supports Vic Regional Living Expo
First National Real Estate will continue its support of the Victorian State Government’s Regional Victoria Living Expo, which is expected to draw even larger crowds than it did in 2013. The network will showcase properties at the Expo but will also have representative members on hand to answer questions about lifestyle and real estate throughout regional Victoria. “Last year, the…
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Rent or buy? It’s a question of affordability
Whether to rent or buy has long been an issue of contention amongst younger generations. Despite recent research underlining that Australians are likely to pay almost the same cost to buy a home compared to renting for the next 30 years, the number of first home buyers is at a historical low in Australia. John Edwards from onthehouse.com.au looks at…
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Proximity Hamilton leads the way in Brisbane property upsurge
Proximity Hamilton, Brisbane’s latest luxury apartment development, has kicked off 2014 with a bang, recording more than $4.6 million in apartment sales in just 30 days. Peter Malady, managing director of marketing agents 360 Project Marketing, said his sales team had closed an impressive 10 sales in January, traditionally a quiet period for the Brisbane property market. “Analysts are tipping…
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REIV releases new median prices by number of bedrooms
New data released by the REIV has found substantial variations across Melbourne in capital growth during the September quarter, depending on the area and the type of dwelling. REIV CEO Mr Enzo Raimondo said that median house prices can be skewed by a few particularly low or high prices in an area. “But looking at prices for houses and units,…
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Office Fitouts are Key to Employee Satisfaction According to Study
Commercial Real Estate: Office fitouts play an important role in influencing staff morale and retention according to a survey results released today by Amicus Interiors. On average, over 88 percent of respondents believe their fitouts affect how their staff perform. The survey also revealed how important areas for play, entertainment and relaxation are to employees, yet found only half of…
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In his own words: Adam Alexander
Born in Mornington and educated in the neighbouring suburb of Dromana, hockingstuart Rosebud director Adam Alexander has been one of the Peninsula’s top performing agents for ten years. From day one Adam was driven to succeed, spending most of his time door-knocking, putting out boards and handing out flyers at open for inspections while learning the trade. It was through this…
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