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Caroline Bolderston: How to develop greater resilience in three simple steps
One of the most critical characteristics an agent must possess to be a top performer is resilience, and given the high stakes in this business, you must develop the ability to live it.
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Tiffany Bowtell: How the human touch solves office headaches
Automatic communications are becoming standard practice in business but sometimes we really miss the nuances that come with talking to real, live humans.
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Hannah Gill: balancing the benefits and risks of innovation
Hannah Gill explores why innovation is essential to real estate, and how you can embrace the failures that come with doing something different and turn them into lessons.
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Why today’s Australian property market is a real auction market
As an agent, you know auctions have been the key selling method over the past few years.
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Manos Findikakis: how to activate your success strategy
Every day in real estate is game day. It's the chance to expand your business, raise your profile, and meet more people, with the singular aim of listing and selling more properties.
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Imogen Callister: Don’t fall down the ‘scroll hole’
To say social media platforms can be a time-waster is an understatement. But they can also help you build your brand, generate leads and build relationships.
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Chris Wilson: How to identify and beat burnout
Real estate is known for having top performers who give every deal everything they have. But what happens when you give too much? Stress scientist Chris Wilson examines agent burnout, what it is, how you can avoid it and what you can do if it does happen to you.
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A place for everyone: Green St Property
Green St Property is no ordinary real estate agency.
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Nerida Conisbee: rent control isn’t the answer to the rental crisis
There are almost twice as many people under rental stress than those experiencing mortgage stress, with ‘stress’ defined as spending more than 30 per cent of household income on rental or mortgage payments. In the most recent Census of Population and Housing conducted in 2021, there were 915,000 households spending more than 30 per cent of their income on rental…
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Nick Brown: The show must go on
I have always tried to have Edge Property Agents evolve so that any team member can do any role in the business. The plan isn’t perfect, but it has worked so far for the long weekends I try and get away and escape the rat race. Recently I was unfortunately admitted to hospital with a rare disease that could potentially…
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Ellen Bathgate: the devil is in the detail
It's no secret that property managers are busy. More than busy. So it's easy to understand why you might be tempted to make life a little easier for yourself and do a 'good enough' job on some tasks.
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Will Gosse: Why authenticity and identity are key for aspiring young leaders
If you're a millennial, you will likely have grown up believing you could be and achieve you set your mind to. If you're a millennial and reading this, chances are that it’s this belief that’s helped propel your career forward in real estate - Australia’s biggest industry.
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Manos Findikakis: how to achieve real estate success one client at a time
As much as real estate success involves goal setting and reverse engineering, the simple reality is it's all about serving one client at a time in the knowledge small steps add up to create momentum.
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The great investor about-face
Once upon a time, mum and dad investors cherished residential real estate for its ability to secure decent yields, equity and strong capital gains.
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Why Aussie PropTechs are turning to crowdfunding
The power to determine the future and what our industry looks like is being put back in the hands of the agents, as more and more Aussie property technology companies turn to crowdfunding.
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Tim Snell: why failure is the centrepiece of success
An unfortunate lesson I’ve come to terms with, is that watching Tiger Woods play golf isn’t making me a better golfer.
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Three things the top 5 per cent of agents do
So, you want to be a top-performer and among the real estate industry's best? It's a noble ambition and a goal many agents aspire to achieve.
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Will the housing downturn be over sooner than we think?
Investors in the US have just started behaving very differently.
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What is quiet quitting and will it infiltrate real estate?
At workplaces across the country, when the clock ticks over to 5pm, a throng of employees turn off their computers and head home.
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To auction or not to auction, that is the question!
With clearance rates dropping, volume of buyers on the wane and the logical price of the market drifting further away from vendor expectations, the general ritual has been to move away from the auction process and head towards private sale.
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Your own business, without the distractions
I’ve always felt privileged to work in an industry where there is almost no limit to the success that can be achieved.
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Nick Brown: Why won’t the landlord do as I say?
I’ve been thinking about what property managers often say are their stress triggers and the things which make property management difficult at times.
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The best way to ‘compete’ is not to compete at all
If you really want to 'win' at real estate, the truth of it is, that you don't want to be competing at all. Instead, you want to be the chosen one.
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Justine Wilson’s spring selling season styling trends
Forget Scandi and Japandi, spring selling season style trends have moved on to curved furniture, antiques and the rise of the outdoor room according to leading property stylist and founder of Vault Interiors, Justine Wilson. Here, Justine shares how you and your vendors can give every home an on-trend facelift buyers will love. It’s time to move on from the…
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Darren Krakowiak: the smart way to handle objections
The market is changing. Or it’s already changed. Perhaps you believe there’s more change to come.
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John Hellaby: the collabarative lessons learned from Inman Las Vegas 2022
The day after Inman I sat in a cabana poolside at the Aria hotel, surrounded by a combination of Inman Ambassadors, Proptech founders & execs and high performing Realtors, reflecting on the conference that was Inman Las Vegas 2022.
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Kristen Porter: three simple growth strategies (and the legal tips you need to implement them!)
These days, everywhere you turn there’s another growth strategy for you to use in your business. While it’s great to get your head around as many strategies as possible, results only come with implementation – and that’s the hard part, writes O*NO Legal - The Real Estate Agents' Lawyer Founder, Kristen Porter.
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Manos Findikakis: why speed is currency for clients
We've all been there…waiting for a response about an item we wish to buy or seeking further information about a service we hope to use.
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Jasmyn Calgaro: How to successfully launch your real estate career
In less than seven years, high-performing agent Jasmyn Calgaro of Ray White Nepean Group has been able to go from starting from nothing to completing more than 130 deals last year.
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Real estate farewells property manager with a big heart
Coronis Director Lia Storer is being remembered as a top property manager with a great sense of humour and “the biggest heart” following an 18-month battle with cancer.
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Chris Goodway: prepare for the worst, expect the best
Although I am an optimist at heart, I like to be as prepared as I can possibly be for every conceivable scenario.
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Sharon Fox-Slater: beware the underinsurance trap
Under-insurance is rife across Australia but it’s often not until a natural disaster strikes that many landlords find out the hard way that their investment properties aren’t fully covered.
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Michael Choi: five signs you’re ready to take charge
Michael Choi, founder of real estate network Area Specialist, identifies the five signs you are ready to be your own boss.
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Tanja Lee: The key to success
If you ask top real estate coach and mindset specialist Tanja Lee the secret to success, her answer is surprisingly simple – self-belief. Just as Henry Ford once wrote, “whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right,” Tanja believes agents’ inner thoughts are the element that most controls their success in the industry. “Strategies and resources will…
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Michelle Bourne: a shining light on Sydney’s Northern Beaches
Michelle Bourne came to real estate later in life but that hasn't stopped her setting up a boutique agency with her husband Andrew. As Michelle explains, the "stars aligned" when they established Rightside, and now she's focused on growing the Manly agency even further.
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