CoreLogic Property Pulse 24 August: Housing turnover remains low
Housing turnover remains low despite strong selling conditions in Sydney and Melbourne, according to latest CoreLogic data. CoreLogic data confirms over the 12 months to May 2017 only 4.8 per cent of...
View ArticleRealtor.com introduces ‘My Home’ to help homeowners manage their home like an...
Realtor.com has released My Home, a new feature on the desktop and mobile site that allows homeowners to manage their home as an investment. My Home provides homeowners with the tools and information...
View ArticleSnug.com launches BondCover to free up rental bonds
Rental community platform startup Snug.com is launching its first feature, BondCover, a surety bond designed to transform the rental market by freeing up $4 billion worth of rental bonds. “With 2.5...
View ArticleTennis or Paintball?
COMMUNICATION WITH clients is key to succeeding in our industry, as we have all heard. However, many workshops and seminars fail to give us critical information on what to say within the conversation...
View ArticleThe Threat of Fraud Is The Real Fraud
In a recent industry survey conducted by InfoTrack, 40 per cent of real estate agent respondents reported concerns about fraudulent activity when using electronic and digital signature technology. The...
View ArticleREIQ Host Real Tech 2017 and launch Agent.ID
The REIQ Real Tech 2017 Conference was created to fill a gap in the Queensland market – a conference that was solely dedicated to bringing only relevant technology to the real estate practitioner. REIQ...
View ArticleRay White QLD awards recognises high achievers
Ray White Queensland traded $8.6 billion in residential property sales, made up of over 16,000 transactions in 2016-17. In the new category of Chairman Club – those who wrote in excess of $1.25 million...
View ArticleDi Jones inaugural annual market report says Sydney market still strong
The data is produced in partnership with CoreLogic and shows Sydney’s median dwelling price has increased 12.2 per cent over the past 12 months (July 2016-June 2017) and it was the fifth successive...
View ArticleVacant land lot prices increasing and creating housing affordability issues: HIA
“Land price increases in Australia are unrelenting,” HIA Senior Economist Shane Garrett said. “The substantial increase in the price of residential land continues to be the single biggest factor behind...
View ArticleBresicWhitney named in Top 50 Places to Work
BresicWhitney was born in 2003 from the vision of founders Ivan Bresic and Shannan Whitney to create an agency that led change and transformed the real estate experience for consumers and its...
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The Front Window Wow-Factor
I remember years ago first coming across the marketing maxim that ‘doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark… you know what you’re doing, but nobody else does’. It rang...
View ArticleTop 5 Takeaways from ALPPPS 2017
1 PINNACLE OF SUCCESS To reach the pinnacle of success, you must be prepared for the climb. Start by getting a ‘prognosis’ done on your property management business to assess its current state and...
View ArticleWhere are the most popular places to retire in Australia: CoreLogic
With only 2,904 residents, the small council area of Queenscliff on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, recorded the highest proportion of retirees aged over 65 years (40.3%) according to the...
View ArticleHow to Use Photography for Personal Branding with Jason Malouin
Transform Masters 2017 is brought to you with thanks to our sponsors Property Tree, realestate.com.au and Real+ Jason Malouin of the Portrait Store shares his tips on how agents can connect to...
View ArticleWhy Tech Is No Threat to Property Managers: Alister Maple-Brown
Since its explosion in the 90s, technology has become central to everything we do in property management, and in business today. Completely changing the game was the iPhone, invented 10 years ago,...
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Core Logic Home Value Index August 2017
Using the upgraded hedonic index methodology, the CoreLogic August home value index results for the month confirm a slowdown in housing market conditions in Sydney, while Hobart emerged as the...
View ArticleAuction volumes fall with the clearance rate clinging to 70 percent
National auction clearance results for the week ending 03/09/2017 courtesy of CoreLogic The final clearance rate across the combined capital cities has been sitting in the mid-high 60 percent range...
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Rebecca Freeman, LJ Hooker Residential Perth
Tell us a bit about yourself and your role at LJ Hooker Residential, Perth. I’m 37 and have been working with LJ Hooker for 18 years. I moved to Perth and joined the team here seven years ago, and I...
View ArticlePutting Some Spring into Your Marketing
1. YOUR PROFILE AND HEADSHOT Authenticity is key here. There’s nothing worse for a prospective client to read or see your profile and find it doesn’t match the person they meet in real life. Worse...
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Richardson & Wrench Stars Shine Bright at the 2017 Annual Awards
The depth of talent within the Richardson & Wrench group has been highlighted by some outstanding performances across all of R&W’s markets. A true standout was Bondi Junction Principal Andre...
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