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Raine and Horne: Baby boomer demand for apartments could change Adelaide real estate
Baby boomer demand for apartments could change the face of Adelaide real estate, according to Raine & Horne. South Australians’ preference for detached housing is reflected in recent research showing the capital city values have grown consistently since June 2016, with detached housing values increased by 3.1% compared to a modest 0.3% for apartments, according to CoreLogic. However, baby boomers…
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Luke Croft takes over leadership at Ray White South Brisbane
After 25 years at Ray White South Brisbane, Dean Yesberg has handed over the reigns to focus on Ray White Brisbane CBD Residential. Luke Croft, Alan White elite member and in the top two per cent of the Ray White Group, will take over the leadership at Ray White South Brisbane. Originally a panel beater by trade, Mr Croft has…
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Successful Ray White Gold Coast pair expand with new venture
Gold Coast agent John Tymon is adamant the real estate industry changed his life – for the better. On the eve of opening a new business in Elanora with John Parkes, the joint principal of Ray White Tugan felt it was time for some reflection. “Over the last 10 years my wife Caroline and I have experienced many ups and down…
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RE/MAX opens in Brisbane suburb of Hendra
The new RE/MAX Signature office in Hendra, Brisbane, will open its doors later this month and is shaking up the traditional model. Under the leadership of Richard Siganto, the office is in a strategic location for accessing main roads and a number of key suburbs. Mr Siganto has taken the unusual move to open in a 340-square metre warehouse, offering…
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Paul Franks joins Ray White Warriewood
Ray White has added another office in NSW in the Northern Beaches suburb of Warriewood, under the helm of experienced property valuer Paul Franks. The office is due to open its doors later this month and is centrally located on Pittwater Rd, with an exposure of 40,000 residents driving past daily. Mr Franks will be supported by three other staff…
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Unique business model attracts experienced franchise manager Luke Cameron
20 offices within three years for a new brand might sound ambitious, but for Stone Real Estate franchise manager Luke Cameron, this is the reality for the young brand. The unique Stone Real Estate business model is what Mr Cameron credits for its rapid growth and success. The business, started by CEO Peter Mumford, is based on a centralised database…
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Ray White Broadbeach agents sell $22m of Gold Coast property in 23 days
Ray White Broadbeach agents Sam Guo and Julia Kuo have done it again, selling more than $22 million of Gold Coast property in 23 days across eight properties. So far this year Mr Guo and Ms Kuo have sold more than $110 million in the current financial year. Of the eight properties that were just sold, half sold to local…
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Barry Plant Boronia takes out first place in Australian Business Achiever awards
Barry Plant Boronia has taken out first place in the Real Estate Services category of the 2017 Australian Achiever Awards, with a score of 99.68%. It won the accolade over more than 80 other businesses in the category and received the highest score nationally. Now in their 20th year, the Australian Achiever Awards are independent awards based on assessment ratings…
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Everyone has a next level: RE/MAX top performers unite at industry forum in New Zealand
“Mission possible” was the theme of the RE/MAX high performers forum this year which was held in Queenstown, New Zealand. Seventy RE/MAX members from Australia and New Zealand gathered for three days of networking and learning at the invitation-only event for top performers. Michael Davoren, RE/MAX Australia and New Zealand Managing Director, said technology was a recurring theme at the…
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Rebecca Osenton to open Ray White Pelican Waters
Rebecca Osenton, the new owner of Ray White Pelican Waters, moved from the bush three years ago – but there’s no turning back now after she opted for a sea change. Ms Osenton relocated from her family’s cattle stud in the Maranoa region in south-western Queensland to Caloundra to work for Ray White. Now she’s in partnership with Ray White Caloundra…
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Mitch Palmer joins new Ray White Mermaid Waters
You can take the boy out of Queensland, but you can’t take Queensland out of the boy. The sunshine and lifestyle attractions of the Gold Coast have lured back Mitch Palmer, who is heading up the new Ray White Mermaid Waters after spending six years as an agent and auctioneer in Melbourne. Mr Palmer has joined forces with Ray White…
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Barry Plant reports another record growth period
Victorian franchise group Barry Plant are reporting another round of record sales figures for the March to May quarter of 2016. Barry Plant are reporting growth of 4.3% in the number of properties sold in the March-to-May quarter this year, which they say defies the current market trend. They have also reported a 24% increase in gross sales value, and a rise…
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Harcourts Foundation donates over $50k to benefit local charities
The Harcourts Foundation, the charitable arm of Harcourts Group Australia, announced grants to 13 Australian charities during of its most recent quarterly funding round. A total of $50,847 was donated across Australia. Harcourts franchise owners in each state nominate and support the organisations that impact in their communities. Additionally, Harcourts corporate team members are given the chance to nominate a…
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Anthony Stevens, former AFL legend joins Elders Real Estate
Former AFL Kangaroos star, Anthony Stevens is embarking on a new career path as a rural real estate sales executive with Elders Real Estate. Mr Stevens will service clients across all agriculture asset classes throughout Victoria and the Riverina. Inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame this week, following an outstanding football career spanning over 16 years and 279 games…
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Tasmanian agent beats Victorian rivals to win top franchise awards
Century 21’s first Tasmanian office in Devonport has beaten all of the group’s Victorian offices and taken out two top sales awards. Director of Century 21 Leslie and Banks, James Leslie, achieved two top awards at the network’s quarterly awards ceremony in Victoria including ranking as the first quarter’s Top Selling Principal for the most properties sold. James Leslie, who…
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Matt Lancashire: a merger with a mate and bold ambition to open 10 offices in 10 years
BRISBANE real estate identities Matt Lancashire and Haesley Cush have joined forces once again to grow the Ray White brand in Brisbane. The dynamic duo have been friends for 30 years and are now on a mission to create multiple offices under the Ray White banner. While originally the owner of Ray White New Farm Cush sold the Ray White…
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Laing+Simmons opens new partnership office in Liverpool NSW
Laing+Simmons last week opened its doors to a new office in Liverpool, the first example of its new partnership model in action, with the company taking an ownership position in the business. Mr Platis said the opening of Laing+Simmons Liverpool, under new office principal David Tran, represents a key milestone in the company’s evolution, and claims the industry’s too. “Our…
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Harcourts office opens in Frankston, Victoria
Brent Pullar and Steve Foster-Swan have teamed up as business partners to launch and operate the 80th franchise for the Harcourts group: Harcourts Central. Brent Pullar was a co-founder of real estate empire MPRE group (as it was back in 2000) with 21 offices in the local area, who later went on to be the Harcourts CEO for Victoria for…
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RE/MAX Australia continues to expand it’s presence
RE/MAX Australia continues to expand its national footprint with the addition of nine offices in the first half of 2017. This year, the network added Kingston in ACT, Lidcombe in NSW and three offices in Queensland: Wamuran, Indooroopilly and Sunnybank Hills. By the end of June, RE/MAX will also have added offices in Oxenford, Monterey Keys and Hendra in Queensland,…
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Changing of the guard at Ray White Killcare
Lea Turner lives and breathes real estate. She counts herself as lucky that she gets to work in real estate in the stunning Killcare Peninsula on the Central Coast, just an hour and a half from the Sydney CBD. As the incoming selling principal and owner of Ray White Killcare Peninsula, Ms Turner has been in real estate for the…
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Former News Corp real estate sales manager launches new Raine & Horne office
Raine & Horne is finishing the 2016/17 financial year on a high, launching a new office in Coorparoo led by Mark Evans, who was recently head of real estate advertising at News Corp. Raine & Horne Coorparoo, seven kilometres from the centre of Brisbane, provides sales and property management services to owners in Coorparoo, Camp Hill and surrounding suburbs. Prior…
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Harcourts Group Australia Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Gala Awards, Lee Perry Inducted into Harcourts Hall of Fame
Major real estate franchise group Harcourts Group Australia marked its 20th-anniversary milestone during a three-day conference held 29-31 May at The Star Casino, on the Gold Coast. Kicking off the signature event was a performance by ARIA award winning artists The Veronicas. The annual conference was a mixture of learning, inspiration and ideas presentations from a variety of noted property…
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RE/MAX Territory expands to three offices
Property investors and homeowners at Oxenford and Monterey Keys on the Gold Coast now have the global real estate brand RE/MAX at their service following the expansion of RE/MAX Territory. Rob and Andrew Campbell joined RE/MAX in 2014 when they purchased the successful RE/MAX Territory office at Shailer Park on Brisbane’s Southside. In a strategic expansion move, they recently acquired…
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Time for a change at the top of their game
A day after the top LJ Hooker business in NSW joined the Ray White Group, Belle Property Carina in Qld, under Principal Andrew McSweeny, have also decided to jump on board. Mr McSweeny said, who has more than 22 years experience in real estate started when he was 19 and is exceptionally proud of what he and his team had achieved…
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Century 21 Launches Australasian Project Marketing Business
Century 21 has launched the group’s first overarching project marketing business that will have a presence across Australasia and in each Australian capital city. The business will work closely with both developers and the Century 21 franchise network to implement full-service project marketing strategies for residential projects from concept to completion. Century 21 Project Marketing will be led by Alex…
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Bundaberg region’s food production and port development attract business delegation
Bundaberg is on the map for Chinese business investors after RE/MAX principal, Scott Mackey, led a delegation to Nanning in China this month to support opportunities in the region. Jim Mullet, Managing Director of Monduran Station, a 1000-hectare citrus orchard, along with real estate sales executives Aaron Thompson and Michael Zunker from RE/MAX Precision, and MRH Lawyers’ Alex Pretorious, who…
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First National awards its high achievers in Fiji
First National Real Estate’s highest achievers were presented with their General Excellence and Marketing Awards at the Intercontinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa last Friday night. The awards dinner brought recognition to Australia’s top 2016 salespeople, property managers and administrators, and attracted more than 385 delegates from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. First National Real Estate’s chairman, David…
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RE/MAX celebrates the career of Simon Salm
Simon Salm, a Brisbane Bayside sales executive and sales team leader, has received a rare international RE/MAX Circle of Legends Award, which requires a career of at least 10 years with the global real estate giant and over $10 million US in RE/MAX commissions. “Entry into the prestigious Circle of Legends doesn’t come easily,” said RE/MAX Australia Franchise Director Joel…
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RE/MAX returns to Mackay
RE/MAX Results has returned to Mackay in QLD, once again giving the much-respected global real estate name a presence in the region. With an executive sales force of high-performer Stacey Arlott and the experienced Dee Mangion joining Regional Development Manager Emma Goodfellow, who has steered the efficient RE/MAX Results property management business over the past 12 months, RE/MAX results is…
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Ray White New Farm Prepare to Auction “under the stars”
Ray White New Farm’s upcoming Auction Under The Stars, they say, is more than an auction event, it’s a “property buffet”. Now in its fourth year, this year’s Auction Under The Stars will be held on May 30 at 6 pm in the carpark behind Ray White New Farm on Brunswick St, New Farm. This fully catered market expo comes with…
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Language is no barrier in multi-cultural Sunshine: Ray White
Ray White Sunshine has just opened in inner west Melbourne with young gun Dee Nguyen at the helm, who is excited to be joining the Ray White family. Principal Mr Nguyen started in real estate in 2008 and is rebranding to Ray White from a smaller independent agency group, with a team of more than 10 staff across property management…
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New Ray White powerhouse in the Sutherland Shire
Five of the most successful real estate agents in the Sutherland Shire have joined forces to open the new Ray White Cronulla office. Matt Debreczeni and Gavin Ottaway, the owners of the Ray White Menai and Sutherland businesses, have teamed up with Matt Johnston, Jill Yankos and Charlie Yankos to open the Cronulla business, creating a real estate powerhouse across…
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Husband and wife team take up a new challenge
Raine & Horne has made double play in recruiting the talent to head up its newest office on the northern beaches. They have managed to lure not only one of the peninsula’s most successful agents in Ben Spackman as principal of the new Mona Vale office, but also his wife Katie, who will head up the property management business. Ben, who…
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Young Principals about to open 11th office
Jared and Shallain Hodge are a mission to build their real estate empire. Jared Hodge, a 42-year-old young-gun real estate principal and entrepreneur, is soon to open his 11th new business in only eight years when he opens Ray White Burleigh Heads. The move comes just weeks after the mutual departure from glamour Gold Coast suburb by the previous Ray…
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Luxury agent Chantal Hooper joins Di Jones
Di Jones Real Estate has appointed Chantal Hooper to join its Eastern Suburb’s team. Di Jones Real Estate CEO Rob Ward said Chantal’s international experience, network and ability to work across cultures sees her as a valuable addition to the team. “With a wealth of experience servicing prestige clients in Sydney, we’re delighted to have Chantal joining us at Di…
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