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FRANCHISE NEWS
Ray White welcomes high performer Nic Krasnostein to Double Bay
Halfway through his business degree but yearning to get out from behind a desk, Nic Krasnostein undertook real estate work experience in 2007, and he hasn’t looked back since. Mr Krasnostein has now joined Ray White Double Bay as a sales executive and he is looking forward to being instrumental in people making such significant life decisions. “I genuinely love…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Professionals expands on Sunshine Coast
Roy Philpott has joined the Professionals network, rebranding his Kings Beach office as Professionals on the Coast Realty and laying plans to build on his dedicated team of four staff members in the coming year to service the booming Sunshine Coast region. “There’s a lot happening on the Sunshine Coast at the moment; it’s growing rapidly and we’re ready to…
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SELLING + MARKETING PROPERTY
The story behind realestate.com.au’s most-clicked listing of 2018
After languishing on the market for three years, a property in Victoria’s Narre Warren North sold this year with Kristen Turner of Peake Real Estate who took over the listing in April. Not only did Ms Turner secure a record price for the home, it also become the most-clicked on realestate.com.au for 2018 – finding its way in front of…
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BEST PRACTICE
Is it time to interrupt yourself?
As we leave one year behind and look towards the new one, we often find ourselves with the best intentions, feeling totally committed to new outcomes and results. We take time to set our goals and truly desire to do better, do differently and achieve new standards – only to find that after a short period we have reverted to…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Raine & Horne opens new office in New England region
Prominent Glen Innes real estate agent, Nellie Hayes, has opened the doors at Raine & Horne Glen Innes in the booming New England region. Ms Hayes, who is born and bred in the New England region has joined Raine & Horne from a background selling exclusively rural property. Before her real estate career, Ms Hayes was a private property investor. The mother…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Michael Coombs joins LJ Hooker Avnu
Michael Coombs has joined the team at LJ Hooker Avnu on Sydney’s Lower North Shore. Mr Coombs has brought with him his team of six. Together they begin the New Year with over $100 million in listings across the Lower North Shore. “There’s no denying there’s an opportunity to consolidate and automate the fractured world of real estate,” Mr Coombs said. “I believe…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Raine & Horne launch new Belmont office
Raine & Horne has launched its eighth office in NSW’s Hunter region with the opening this month of Raine & Horne Belmont. The new office will be led by local sales agent, Lisa Borstel, who will be supported by business partner Colin Bice, who previously led Raine & Horne Wallsend. Sales star, Simon Rainey, who has worked within the Raine…
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EPM: Productivity
How to get your property management team in peak performance
It may seem like an outdated process to some, but conducting regular performance reviews across the property management department is a sure-fire way to motivate and reward your staff while driving the bottom line. WHY DO AN ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW? Clarity A performance review can be a great opportunity to get some one-on-one feedback from your employees and understand what their…
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Brand Editorial
How having a ‘tech startup’ mentality can make you more successful
Before some bright spark in China invented the compass in 206 BC – the west didn’t get their version until AD 1190 – navigators used the North Star to find their way home (trivia!). Today, North Star metrics (NSMs for short) are used to guide the ‘hacking’ techniques used to drive the growth of many of the fastest growing start-ups and…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Sunshine Coast waterfront specialist joins LJ Hooker
Real estate specialist Alan Riley – who’s credited with some of the Sunshine Coast’s top waterfront property sales – has joined LJ Hooker Mooloolaba’s sales division as co-principal. Mr Riley has been credited with several million-dollar waterfront sales for Mooloolaba and Minyama sellers over 2018, including $3.25m and $2.88m for two properties at Mooloolaba as well as a record $5.15m…
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BEST PRACTICE
How being quiet can help you find your voice
Recently I went on a 10-day residential retreat to learn an ancient Buddhist meditation technique called Vipassana. It required not talking for 10 days, meditating for 10 hours a day, fasting for 18 hours a day taking only a little fruit occasionally, and being shut out from everything I’ve known in my world for the last 53 years. I did it because…
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Real Estate News
Market likely to correct, not crash, in 2019 says realestate.com.au
Today realestate.com.au launched its quarterly Property Outlook – January 2019 report (October to December 2018), analysing more than 80 million property searches. While the worst may not be quite over for Sydney and Melbourne, conditions remain highly variable across the country, year-on-year declines in Melbourne (-1.48%) and Sydney (-5.93%) look to be far less severe than many are reporting. Hobart,…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Leading agent joins Stone Real Estate in Sydney’s south
South Sydney agent Ray Fadel has started the new year with a new brand behind him, making the decision to join Stone Real Estate. Mr Fadel has opened the doors at Stone Real Estate Sans Souci in Sydney’s south, bringing almost two decades of solid experience to Stone. Mr Fadel, who takes his entire team across to Stone, has established…
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BEST PRACTICE
Focus on the opportunities: Mark McLeod
Talking to a team of agents on the Gold Coast recently, I asked them to picture a football team who has been playing on a dry surface for the last few years when all of a sudden they have a wet, rain-affected pitch to play on. If the players don’t adapt their game, they will lose. In that game, there will…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Coronis kicks off the new year expanding it’s Kelvin Grove business
Coronis Kelvin Grove is expanding its presence in the lucrative Brisbane suburbs of Ashgrove, The Gap and Bardon with the addition of brother-sister duo Ken Wearing and Danielle Brown. Coronis COO Karuna Dimelow said welcoming Ken and Danielle to the team was a fantastic start to the new year. “We believe Ken and Danielle are future superstars in the industry…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Harcourts Group Australia adds Director NSW/ACT Board
Harcourts Group Australia CEO Marcus Williams has announced the appointment of Mahan Shishineh as a director of the Harcourts New South Wales/Australia Capital Territory group as he takes a 10% equity stake in this business. Mr Shishineh currently serves as Franchise Development Manager for the NSW/ACT group, a role he has had since 2014, and will continue as Harcourts focuses…
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Thought Leaders Podcast
Episode 75: Leading with heart and innovation: Peter Baines OAM
While you might not be familiar with the work of Peter Bains OAM many of you will clearly remember where you were when you heard about the Bali Bombings in 2002 or the Boxing Day Tsunami in Thailand in 2004. The identification of victims of both of those disasters fell to those who were first on the ground, in many…
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