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  • Real estate agency Di Jones expansion intensifies

    The expansion at Di Jones Real Estate continues with the team at Wahroonga being bolstered by the appointment of two renowned sales agents from McGrath Pymble. Di Jones Real Estate chief executive Rob Ward said the appointment of Valerie Latham and Linda Ratcliff would now see its staff numbers at the Wahroonga office increase to 23. “Combined, Valerie and Linda…

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  • Raine & Horne recognises Woodford office its best for business growth

    In a major changing of the guard, Raine & Horne Woodford was named Raine & Horne’s best office for business growth in Queensland in 2016. The leading local real estate office is led by Principal Jill Garth, and the win is a huge result for the team at Raine & Horne Woodford, given the massive growth of the Raine &…

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  • Darwin property values records high sales activity says Raine & Horne

    After two consecutive quarters of strong sales activity, prices in Darwin’s northern suburbs are set for an upswing, said Raine & Horne Darwin, general manager Glenn Grantham. Houses located in Jingili, Karama and Anula, are attracting 30-40 groups to open homes, with many selling it within three weeks of reaching the market, said Grantham. “There was a bounce in buyer…

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    LJX-Lab announces digital real estate challenger, Settl

    LJ Hooker today announced the first stand-alone business to come out of LJX-Lab. Settl will be a new hybrid online to offline real estate agency model that will be scaled in partnership with the LJ Hooker network to meet new trends in consumer needs. Settl is part of LJ Hooker’s $100 million digital transformation and has been in research and development…

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  • Di Jones Real Estate recognises talent at first ever Annual Awards

    The legacy of 25 years of the Di Jones Real Estate brand was celebrated on Sunday 26 February at the first-ever Di Jones Real Estate Annual Awards. The black tie Gala Dinner saw team members across five offices come together to recognise their achievements. Di Jones Real Estate CEO Rob Ward said that the awards were a great tribute to…

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  • Double Bay agent dominates Raine & Horne NSW awards

    Raine & Horne Double Bay and its selling whiz, Ric Serrao, have dominated the Raine & Horne NSW State awards, held at the Westin Hotel, Sydney last Saturday night. The prestigious awards attracted 450 attendees, a record for the annual event. Mr Serrao was named Raine & Horne’s Top Salesperson (Principal) – Number of Sales and Top Salesperson (Principal) –…

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  • Elders real estate foot print expands, plans to acquire prominent WA agency

    Elders, now in its 177th year, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Southern Districts Estate Agency (SDEA) headquartered in Bunbury. Established more than 40 years ago as a rural real estate and auctioneering business, SDEA is a leading residential and commercial real estate agency operating from three locations in the South West region of…

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  • RE/MAX Australia & New Zealand nominated for agency’s Global Region of the Year

    RE/MAX Australia and RE/MAX New Zealand are two of six regions nominated for the RE/MAX Global Region of the Year award, with the winner and runner-up to be announced in Las Vegas on 28th February 2017. Michael Davoren, Managing Director of RE/MAX Australia and RE/MAX New Zealand, will be in Las Vegas at the RE/MAX R4 Convention, where he hopes…

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  • Ray White Emms Mooney expands Bathurst operation

    The number one Rural business in the Ray White network has cemented its presence even further with the expansion and relocation of its new Bathurst branch. Seeing exponential growth, the team achieved a record result in December of just shy of $40 million in residential and rural sales and Director, Pat Bird said the expansion was a natural progression for…

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  • The Agency Appoints Stuart Cox as its new State Sales Manager for WA

    Real estate industry veteran Stuart Cox has been appointed as the “The Agency’s” latest state sales manager for Western Australia, effective immediately. In this role, Cox would be tasked to work with The Agency’s Sydney office in implementing unified policies and procedures as well as assume the responsibility for recruiting, managing day-to-day affairs and working on improving the company’s business…

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  • Queensland’s best recognised at Raine & Horne industry awards

    The Raine & Horne Queensland & Northern Rivers State awards held at the luxurious Jupiter’s Casino attracted 370 of Raine & Horne’s best and brightest, a record for the annual event. In a major changing of the guard, Jamie Wilmen of Raine & Horne Pottsville/Cabarita Beach was named Raine & Horne’s best sales agent for dollar value and number of…

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    RE/MAX rewards its best of 2016 in a gala event

    RE/MAX Australia announced its top performers for 2016 at a gala event held at Brisbane City Hall this month (16th February) and celebrated an exceptional year of growth and innovation. Keeping with tradition, the network’s ultimate individual honour, The Eagle Award, was the final announcement for the evening, with Murray Carter, broker-owner of RE/MAX Regency the 2017 recipient. RE/MAX Regency…

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  • Raine & Horne targets Dubai tourism market with new holiday letting business

    Raine & Horne has launched a holiday rental business in Dubai, becoming the only Australian property firm with a vacations business in the UAE. Launched in January, Raine & Horne Holiday Homes is led by co-principals Shine Sunny and Sanjay Chimnani. “Between Sanjay and Shine, Raine & Horne Holiday Homes has real estate, hospitality, marketing and PR experience, and this…

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    A fresh new identity for the Victorian-based Barry Plant Group

    Victorian-based Barry Plant Group has rolled out a new branding in the first quarter of 2017, at its annual Barry Plant Kick Start conference held on Monday. The new branding includes small changes made to its logo, the first since it was last updated 11 years ago. “Our goal was to evolve our brand identity to accurately reflect our group’s…

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  • O’Brien Real Estate branches out in Melbourne, with two new offices

    Melbourne-headquartered O’Brien Real Estate will open two new offices in the first quarter of the year – making its total headcount to 19 offices, a long way from where they started six years ago. Last month, the company unveiled its 18th office located at 951 Nepean Highway, Bentleigh, which will service suburbs such as Highett, Bentleigh East, Hampton East and…

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  • Coronis rewards landlords with new Advantage Club

    South East Queensland real estate business Coronis has launched a new loyalty program to reward and thank their landlords for their ongoing support. The Coronis Advantage Club is exclusively for the company’s 7000 landlords who will now receive a variety of discounts on real estate services offered by Coronis and their referral partners including selling fees, financial services, building and…

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  • Ray White exceed $70m at auction on the Gold Coast

    Ray White offices across the Gold Coast collectively auctioned nearly 200 properties and sold $72 million worth of real estate in one week. Dubbed “the grand final of auctions”, Ray White Surfers Paradise Group’s annual auction extravaganza, The Event, was held last Sunday and showcased 130 homes. Selling over $40 million in one day, 2,000 people were in attendance with…

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  • Barry Plant Group throws its support behind Women’s Property Initiatives

    The Barry Plant Group has rendered its support in helping bolster more funds towards Property Initiatives Real Estate, a social enterprise run by the Women’s Property Initiatives (WPI) in Melbourne. Barry Plant Group said the collaboration will see WPI’s social enterprise benefitting from its professional services which include running a better-managed rent roll and achieving maximum profitability through the advice given…

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  • Super Sales Week for Ray White Coming Up on the Gold Coast

    The Gold Coast property market looks as though it will be painted yellow in the final weeks of January with five of Ray White’s most prominent businesses conducting around 200 auctions in a nine-day period. The auction season kicks off this weekend with the Ray White Gold Coast South Network holding 38 auctions on 22 January at Twin Towns in…

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  • Belle Property opens first office in Melbourne

    Boutique real estate group, Belle Property International is redefining real estate in Melbourne with the opening of their office in Docklands. A world-class concierge partner that represents both property developers and investors across Asia and Australia, Belle Property International Melbourne is set to deliver a personalised and unique approach to large scale projects. A well-respected expert who has been involved…

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  • Laing+Simmons Scholarship Winner Lands Full-time Role

    Prospect local Julia Sallows has been unveiled as the winner of this year’s Laing+Simmons Scholarship Program, the annual initiative designed to unearth talented agents of the future and kickstart their career in real estate. Julia’s win sees her join leading local real estate office Laing+Simmons Blacktown, where she’ll work alongside experienced sales specialist Mark Stone. Julia completed a week’s work…

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  • Queensland’s property market set to soar in 2017 say Raine & Horne

    Queensland’s real estate markets are all set to enjoy a healthy year with significant infrastructure investments, greater affordability and lower interest rates making it an attractive buy, said leading real estate group, Raine & Horne. Investments such as the $21 billion Adani Carmichael coal mine, the $3 billion Queen’s Wharf, Westfield’s $1 billion development at Coomera and the $200 million…

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  • South Coast home goes under the hammer for Cystic Fibrosis community: LJ Hooker

    Research and support for Australia’s cystic fibrosis community will be boosted when a South Coast home built entirely through business and community generosity goes under the hammer on January 28. The LJ Hooker Foundation – the charitable arm of LJ Hooker offices nationwide – will donate the full purchase price of the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home at Malua Bay, New South…

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  • Raine & Horne reacquires its South Australian operation from long-time franchisees

    In a bid to strengthen its presence in South Australia, Raine & Horne had reacquired its real estate business from long-term franchise holders, Chris and Sue Weston for an undisclosed sum late last year. The husband and wife team who has been operating the group’s franchise since 1996 is the latest business to be reacquired by Raine & Horne after…

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    Coronis Announces 2016 Top Performers

    The Coronis Group held their 2016 Annual Awards at Brisbane City Hall on Saturday night, 17 December, where they announced Coronis Bracken Ridge as Team of the Year. Presented by Managing Director Andrew Coronis, Sales Director Craig Gillies and Property Management Director Jodi Ford, the Bracken Ridge office won based on profitability and their exemplary team culture. “2016 has been…

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    Property owners celebrate an early Christmas with $35,000 win: LJ Hooker

    A Bermagui couple is celebrating Christmas early after walking away with a $35,000 travel voucher as winners of the LJ Hooker network’s spring marketing campaign. Every property owner and landlord that had a market update with LJ Hooker over spring 2016 went into a draw to be the randomly selected person to spin the network’s Million Dollar Prize Wheel. Gordon…

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    Ray White Group post record month

    Ray White recorded $4.2 billion in sales in November 2016 – in what is a new record for the Group. Group chairman, Brian White said the result – in a market largely thought to be easing – gives concrete evidence of the strength of buyers in the market, supported by the continuing low interest rate environment. “Whilst Sydney remains remarkably…

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  • Real Estate Veteran Returns to Ray White

    An agent with nearly 30 years experience as a real estate agent, principal, auctioneer and trainer has recently taken over the Ray White Balmain office. David Meadowcroft, who joined the industry in 1988, has experience leading both sales and property management businesses. He said joining Ray White largely came down to the opportunity on offer in the Inner West. “The Ray…

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  • R&W Merger forms largest real estate agency in North Sydney

    Two of the most successful real estate agencies in North Sydney have merged to form one office under the Richardson & Wrench brand. Richardson & Wrench (“R&W”) North Sydney have merged with First National North Sydney, making it the largest office of its type in North Sydney and one of the few to have a ground floor presence in the…

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  • Southern state investors returning to Darwin market

    Raine & Horne Darwin has boosted it’s rent roll by 30% by amalgamating the rent roll of a major competitor with its existing property management business. “We now have 1,500 property managements, which makes us one of the biggest players in Darwin’s property management sector,” said Glenn Grantham, General Manager, Raine & Horne Darwin. For many years now, Raine &…

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    Sydney real estate boom drives R&W Hunter expansion

    The surge of Sydney buyers forced out of Sydney in the hunt for value and affordability is changing the face of real estate in regional NSW. Richardson & Wrench today (November 25) adds a second Hunter Valley independent to its network, with the signing of Thomas Real Estate, a third generation family real estate business in the growth region of…

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  • Recognising excellence in customer service: Ray White

    At its elite conference in October, Ray White announced its top five businesses and agents leading the way in customer service internationally. As the Group continues to drive a shift in consumer sentiment in the Australian and New Zealand real estate industry, the Ray White ‘choice’ awards recognise those businesses that are rated most highly by their customers. From Queensland,…

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  • From sales agent to business leader and mentor in 12 months

    How to manage competing with your staff as a selling principal. The challenges you’ll face if you recruit the wrong people. The true costs associated with running a business. After opening his own office 12 months ago, these are just a few things that Sam Mayes has taught young agents in Queensland with ambitions to open a business. “I tried…

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  • Eview Awards its best on the Group’s 10 Year Anniversary

    The Eview Group hosted its 2016 Awards for Excellence at Melbourne’s Crown Studio 3 last Saturday night. More than 300 Directors, Sponsors and Partners attended the party in formal ‘masquerade’ dress. The night also coincided with Eview Group’s 10 year anniversary. In his address to the group, Manos Findikakis said he couldn’t have asked for a better night of celebrations to…

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  • Ray White Victoria posts record month despite falling stock

    In Victoria, where it’s estimated there’s a 20 per cent drop in stock levels across the state, Ray White has recorded a personal best in sales. Achieving $651 million is sales for the month of October, Ray White Victoria CEO, Domenic Belfiore said the momentum has been building all year. “It’s been a fantastic year and we’re thrilled with the…

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