PropertyIQ wins Most Innovative Business Bank Award
The Australian Business Banking Awards 2016 were held on August 11 with PropertyIQ taking out the award for Most Innovative Business Bank Product or Service. The award was judged on the ability to...
View ArticleBrad Cooper appointed as Franchise Manager for Barry Plant Group
Victorian real estate network, The Barry Plant Group have announced the appointment of Brad Cooper as their new Franchise Manager. With over twenty years’ experience in real estate, Brad is an REIV...
View ArticleImprove your profile on realestate.com.au
An improved Real Estate Agency Profiles platform has been released on realestate.com.au to help agents improve their profile and get more clients. The updated profile system allows agents to showcase...
View ArticleTransform PM Ep 1B: Goal Setting in Property Management, Fiona Blayney
Thank you our Week 1 sponsor: Real +, the property experts – providing a full spectrum of services to ‘grow your business and yourself’. Support + Knowledge + Industry insights + much, much more! As...
View ArticleTransform PM Ep 1: Goal Setting in Property Management, Fiona Blayney
Thank you our Week 1 sponsor: Real +, the property experts – providing a full spectrum of services to ‘grow your business and yourself’. Support + Knowledge + Industry insights + much, much more! As...
View ArticleRent.com.au partners with AirBnB, announces new CEO
It has been a big week for rent.com.au with three major announcements including a new CEO, a partnership with AirBnB and its annual results. Renters could be set to benefit from a new partnership...
View Article$5 million expectations for rare Byron beachfront property
Raine & Horne Byron Bay is attracting substantial interest with the marketing of a rare luxury home on the tightly-held Belongil Beach. The absolute beachfront property, standing on 860sqm at 6A...
View ArticleCommercialVIEW expands into Queensland
Property portal CommercialVIEW.com.au is targeting Queensland as part of the next phase of its national expansion. CommercialVIEW CEO Daniel Bignold said we are offering commercial real estate agents...
View ArticleGoing ‘green’ in the home saves cost and improves quality of life, says RMIT...
New research by RMIT on low-carbon housing has found that households could be better off by $1,000 per year by going green. At a time of rising stress over high energy costs, especially among...
View ArticleLandlords: They May Not Be Who You Think They Are
Owners. Investors. Landlords. If you’re a property manager or a sales agent, you probably think you’ve got their behaviours, motivations, likes and dislikes pinned down and that there are no more...
View Article10 Tips For Maximising Your Branding In A Listing Presentation
IN HER CAREER, CRISTEL STENHOUSE has observed numerous property managers who head out to an appraisal, deliver a folder and expect to gain business. But, she says, they don’t entirely grasp the...
View ArticleLook After the Listings You Lose
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT their existing customers should be regularly followed up after the successful sale to build an ongoing relationship. Ian Grace demonstrates how to take this further and follow up on...
View ArticleRay White Double Bay launch into spring with 85% clearance rate
Showing no signs of a market slowdown, Ray White Double Bay’s first spring auction event on Monday 29 August was attended by over 150 potential buyers and vendors. The atmosphere in the room was...
View Article7 Steps to Improving Your Confidence
IT HAS BEEN SAID, many times, that the most successful people are the ones who have failed the most. The difference is that they never confuse failure with being a failure. They are confident it is a...
View ArticleTransform PM Ep 2: Technology & Property Management, Alister Maple-Brown
Thank you our Week 2 sponsor: Rockend, Property Software Solutions Provider. Rockend provides innovative property management software, strata management software, document management software and real...
View ArticleRockend Rolls Out New Benchmarking Tool
I’M PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE a new product which sits within Rockend’s core service offering. Our latest development, realbenchmark, is a cloud-based business intelligence solution for Rockend’s REST...
View ArticlePrioritising People: Laing+Simmons Launches Employee Assistance Program
New South Wales real estate franchise network Laing + Simmons has launched a new employee assistance program to support team members experiencing stress, depression, anxiety or facing other challenges....
View ArticleThe Now Generation – Alex Ouwens and Nathan Casserly
STARTING A REAL ESTATE business and growing it to $10 million in five years is an amazing feat in anyone’s language. For Alex Ouwens and Nathan Casserly their out of the box thinking in terms of...
View ArticleHow to Beat Call Reluctance
“Everybody lives by selling something,” according to Robert Louis Stevenson. But, for many agents, working the phones is still one of the most difficult tasks to face. An agent I was working with told...
View ArticleSpring auction clearance rates reach a new year to date high
According to CoreLogic’s preliminary weekend summary, Spring has sprung with auction rates this weekend seeing a combined capital city clearance of 78.4 percent, a new high for the year. The number of...
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