Sotheby’s International Realty opens first office in Hobart, Tasmania
Tasmania Sotheby’s International Realty will provide premium residential and lifestyle real estate services throughout the state. The company’s first Tasmanian office has just opened its doors on...
View ArticleThe State Of Industry Leadership
Real estate has typically been a self-made industry, with low financial and educational barriers to entry and dominated by big, street-smart personalities who have pulled themselves up by their...
View ArticleRay White has biggest year yet with $44 billion in sales
Ray White Group have reported their biggest-ever year with $44.7 billion in sales in 2016-17, up four per cent on the previous fiscal year. The Ray White Group’s sales market share in Australia and New...
View ArticleHarcourts reports record $98 million in June sales in Tasmania
Interstate buyers and the demand for prestige properties have boosted sales in Tasmania, with Harcourts Group reporting a record $98.1 million in sales during June. “It was our biggest month ever, and...
View ArticleBreaking the Recruitment Cycle: Julie Davis & Neil Williams
One of the questions we hear most often from the folk we work with is, ‘I’m looking for more salespeople or another property manager. Do you know anyone?’ It is the eternal issue faced by a lot of...
View ArticleEx-Macquarie Bank director launches new hybrid real estate agency
Sello, a new hybrid real estate agency was launched by CEO and co-founder Macintosh, with David Murphy and Craig Hewett who are both founding investors. Macintosh held senior roles at Macquarie Bank...
View ArticleREIWA partners with CoreLogic to provide recent WA sale data
A new partnership between REIWA and CoreLogic means the recent sales results reported on reiwa.com will now appear within RP Data Professional, giving agents access to accurate data within one of...
View ArticleLawlab set to Rundl the World
Notwithstanding that Lawlab are the inventors and innovators of the Rundl collaboration platform, they also happen to be a team of experienced property lawyers and legal professionals who are among the...
View ArticleLondon house sells after having viewing staged over Facebook Live
Estateagenttoday.co.uk reported that the online agency Housesimple was aiming to sell the three-bedroom semi-detached bungalow in Rainham, east London, valued at between £470,000 and £475,000. The...
View ArticleHEM Property is a finalist in Greater Port Macquarie Business Awards
HEM Property is a finalist in the New Business category of the 2017 Greater Port Macquarie Business Awards. The young business was started five months ago by three former Laing + Simmons agents who...
View ArticleLaing + Simmons Port Macquarie wins office of the year at 50th Anniversary...
This year marks 50 years for Laing+Simmons, who held their annual awards night on Saturday to celebrate the group’s achievements. Laing+Simmons Port Macquarie took the Office of the Year Award, while...
View ArticleCoreLogic Property Pulse and auctions 27 July 2017 – renting on the rise and...
CoreLogic research analyst Cameron Kusher said analysis of recent Census results show the proportion of properties rented has been trending higher, increasing from 29.6% at the time of the 2011 Census...
View ArticleStone Real Estate opens first regional office in Wollongong
Stone Real Estate opens the doors of its Illawarra office today – the brand’s first office outside metropolitan Sydney. Wollongong agents Michael Schlegel and Paul Piacentin are at the helm of Stone’s...
View ArticleDo cold calls and letterbox drops really work?
In the dark old days of real estate, agents had to rely on white pages and made hundreds of cold calls for new listings. They spent hours completing letter box drops of property pamphlets and other...
View ArticleCSIRO Acquires The Centre for Liveability Real Estate
In June 2016 CSIRO acquired The Centre for Liveability Real Estate™ and the intellectual property for the Liveability Real Estate™ Framework from Hooker Corporation. In an official statement, the CSIRO...
View ArticleProperty Wise Launceston Recognised for Excellence
PropertyWise, a specialist property management business in Launceston, has been nominated as one of 17 finalists in Tasmania, in the 2017 Telstra Business Awards in the New Business category. In only...
View ArticleFirst Home Owner Grant discriminates against buyers wanting to enter the...
REIWA President Hayden Groves said first home buyers who wanted to buy an established home were being discriminated against and as a result were finding it increasingly difficult to enter the WA...
View ArticleCoronis welcomes youngest shareholder
Managing Director Andrew Coronis said the leadership team had recently overhauled their strategy and have developed an aggressive growth plan to reach 40 offices by 2019, of which Tamika will play an...
View ArticleCrowdfunding opens the door to Australia’s property market
Lead researcher, UniSA’s Dr Braam Lowies, says the groundbreaking study assesses individual investor motivation and appetite for crowdfunding and its potential as an alternative investment vehicle for...
View ArticleBest Practice: Some Advice for Creating Better Digital Ads
We’ve had the privilege of serving over a billion ad impressions on behalf of over 40,000 real estate agents. And in that time, we’ve been asked over and over again: what are the best practices for...
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