FEATURE INTERVIEWS
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Leadership panel: The tech that agencies can’t live without
The real estate industry has a wealth of technology at its fingertips, but what works in practice and how does it serve an agency’s needs? We put that question to our leadership panel, who offered an insight into the technology they use every day, and how they assess what’s likely to work for their organisation. Michael Choi – Area Specialist founder What’s the one piece of technology you can’t live without and why? …
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The continual push for productivity and efficiency – is there a downside?
In the push to be more productive and more efficient could your business be rapidly hurtling towards irrelevance? …
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Meet Andi: the ‘silent employee’ helping agencies serve more clients and reduce stress levels
At property management specialists Leah Jay, there’s an outstanding team member who tops the employee of the week charts time after time. …
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2021 AREAS: Key 2 Sale wins Wellbeing Initiative of the Year
When Gail Richards started Key 2 Sale in the rural South Australian city of Mount Gambier, she knew what kind of agency she didn’t want to create. At the time, Gail was a real estate professional with about 14 years of experience, and she’s the first to say she felt a little disillusioned by the churn and burn nature of the industry. …
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Why reverse engineering works for Trelease Associates
Delve into the history of Trelease Associates and you’ll quickly discover a progressive buyer’s agency committed to doing things differently. …
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The jungle or the zoo – What’s your vision of real estate’s future?
Looking to the next 10 years of the real estate industry, social scientist Nigel Dalton offers up an interesting analogy. “Are you expecting a jungle or a zoo?” he asks. …
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Shaun Stoker: Do auctions work in a cooling market?
While most agents understand the value of auctions when markets are hot, the auction process can also be a powerful sales method when markets begin to cool down. …
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How to motivate your team to sustained excellence
Motivation is one of those things that can take us to great heights, but at times, as we all know, that motivation can be hard to find. …
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How Ben Codling found the best of both worlds
In Victoria, sales agent and principal Ben Codling believes he's genuinely struck it lucky. …
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AREAS 2021: How Josh Tesolin shifted the goal posts to sell 350 properties in a year
When Josh Tesolin sets a goal, you better believe he’s going to achieve it. After all, this is a top-performer who clocked up $1 million Gross Commission Income (GCI) in his first year as an agent. …
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Billy Mitchell: Why real estate is about much more than bricks and mortar
Billy Mitchell always loved Port Douglas as a holiday destination so when the opportunity came to expand his flourishing real estate business into the Far North Queensland tropical town he jumped at the chance. …
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AREAS 2021: What Kate Smith did to create an attraction business
After 20 years in the real estate industry, Kate Smith is of the firm belief the best agents adapt quickly, leverage the prevailing market conditions, and stand by their processes to achieve the right result for clients. …
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Avi Khan: How to build high-performing teams
In the space of just 4 years, Avi Khan has been able to build three of the fastest growing real estate agencies in Brisbane as well as a property law firm. …
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Innovation ahead: AI equips agents and clients with more time
When American author Rick Warren espoused, “Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it,” he hadn’t considered the possibility that Artificial Intelligence would, in essence, gift people more time. …
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AREAS 2021: Abi Freeman’s simple formula for success
Abi Freeman may never have intended to become a real estate agent, but that hasn’t stopped her from claiming one of the industry’s top awards in just her seventh year in the profession. …
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Why Simon Beshara says cloud-based agencies are the way of the future
Leading Adelaide real estate agent Simon Beshara firmly believes he has seen the future in property sales. …
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The future is now: What Artificial Intelligence means for your business
Do you remember sitting down to watch The Jetsons as a child and marveling at the intelligence, empathy and problem-solving skills of Rosey the robot? …
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Before they were agents: The fascinating former careers of real estate professionals
It’s no secret that real estate is a popular choice for a second career, but you might be surprised at the jobs some real estate agents have left behind. …
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Alison Hatch: Power to the people
When Alison Hatch started Best Nest Property Management in 2018, she knew she had to do things differently. A cookie-cutter agency wasn’t going to cut it in a market that was becoming increasingly disgruntled with the property management industry. …
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How to make it on TikTok as a real estate agent
When you think of social media platform TikTok, images of teenagers doing funky dances come to mind. And while that's one category of content on the increasingly popular app, real estate is swiftly gaining a large following. Kylie Dulhunty did some research and spoke to two agents generating listings, sales, followers and likes on the platform, to find out how they got started and how they make it work for their business. …
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Vivien Yap: How to build a luxury real estate business
Just 10 years ago Vivien Yap was in a different career and only ever intended to take on real estate as a hobby. …
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David Gordon: Why real estate is not all lattes and fast cars
It’s safe to say real estate is in David Gordon’s blood. A fourth generation real estate agent, the Ray White Byron Bay principal started his career straight out of school and hasn’t looked back. Here, David explains how he structures his day, the importance of sound team communication and why staffing problems are his biggest industry bugbear. What was your first job? …
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David Washington: Building a future with eXp Realty
He might be selling real estate in the oldest country town in South Australia, but that doesn’t mean David Washington’s business model is ancient too. …
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How We Sold It: Cove House
When one of Sydney’s most recognisable luxury homes, Cove House, sold last year, it did so on the back of a high-end marketing campaign that garnered national and international interest. Highland partner Mitchell Wynn explains what the campaign involved and why it worked. …
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OBrien agents record personal best year
Mention the Fab Four in the UK, and most people’s minds will take them to The Beatles, but at Melbourne’s OBrien Real Estate, the Fab Four takes on a different meaning. …
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Lee Dowdall: All for Harper
The year was 2020, and Lee Dowdall was at a crossroads in life. In October the year before, he and wife Helena had tragically lost their daughter Harper to a severe and aggressive brain cancer. …
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Stefan Siciliano: Building a volume business
In just six years Stefan Siciliano has built his real estate career from selling 41 properties in his first year to being on track to do 180 settlements this year. …
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What International Women’s Day means to me
International Women's Day means different things to different people. For some women it is a celebration of all women have achieved, while for others it is a time to focus on future goals and what still needs to be done. …
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Alana Spruce: hands-on property management
Going it alone in business, rebranding and leading landlords, tenants and staff through a global pandemic is not the typical climate you’d elect to open your new property management agency during. …
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Hayley Van de Ven: Unlimited
Hayley Van de Ven has come a long way in the past 20 years. From a young agent overlooked for promotion, to the savvy business owner behind two of RE/MAX Australia's most successful brands, Hayley has always had her eyes on the prize. …
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Henzells Agency: shaping a community
It was 1935 when Roy Henzell Snr rolled into the relative backwater of Caloundra seeking business opportunity. …
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Kevin Chokshi: How to build a referral network
Kevin Chokshi moved to Australia from India as an 18-year-old to study IT, with two bags of clothes, $2000 in his pocket, no mobile phone and no connections. …
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Hornsby: The new commercial real estate frontier
It’s affectionately known as Sydney’s green heart, thanks to its lush bushland and proximity to parks and nature reserves. …
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Hugh Bateman honoured with Order of Australia
His nickname is Mr Mudgee, and it’s not hard to see why. For semi-retired real estate agent Hugh Bateman, his small country town in central west NSW is a lot more than just home. …
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Jacqui Mulligan: Creating clients for life
For Jacqui Mulligan, a new rental property isn't just another door on the books but an opportunity to get to know the owners, the tenants and the history of the house. …
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