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A 2-step guide to wow on Facebook
Sometimes it’s hard know how to engage with your prospects on social media. Most experts say think like being at a barbeque. Be professional and talk about real estate sometimes, (if you didn’t talk at all about your work that would be weird right?) and talk about other things the same way you would at a social event. But there is…
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National
YourPorter Partners With iSelect to Bring Even More Benefits to Agents
ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S FASTEST GROWING utility connections services, YourPorter, has joined forces with leading comparator service iSelect to offer home movers increased choice and convenience through a tailored comparison of electricity, gas, broadband internet, car insurance and more. UNLIKE EXISTING MARKET players, YourPorter aims to meet the growing demand of consumers who want the convenience of a utility connection service…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
The Smart Way to Buy Properties for Renovation
Buying a property with the intention to renovate is a lucrative option to save money upfront whilst still owning your ideal property. With many television shows recently focusing on the benefits of renovating existing properties, it is easy to overlook the potential risks. As with all things property, research is the key to renovator success. Properties that generate the highest…
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EPM
Milly Finds a New Home
PROPERTY MANAGERS HAVE been known to walk into some terrible situations in the line of duty. In November 2015 Melanie Pirotta, a property manager from PRD Nationwide Melton in Victoria walked into a property for a routine inspection to find an abused dog that had been abandoned by the tenant. Milly now has a happy home with the Pirotta family,…
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EPM
The Ladder of Success
Jodi Ford started out as a receptionist and secretary in a real estate office. Now 33 years later, she’s Property Management Director at Coronis, managing one of the largest portfolios in the country. With responsibilities including rent roll growth, customer service and profitability, not to mention career advancement for her team members, she tells EPM about how it all started…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Wise Help for Subdividing Land
Subdividing land is becoming increasingly common in inner city suburbs around Melbourne. Investors list the use of existing land, potential for higher collective financial return, and the ability to keep one or more properties and sell remaining dwellings, as the most appealing benefits of land subdivision. However, potential difficulties easily arise. Wise Real Estate Advice enhances the subdivision experience from…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
The Advantages of Buyers Advocates
Buyer’s advocates are commonplace in America and the Australian market is just starting to recognise their value. With property prices soaring to all-time highs and auctions demolishing reserves, Australia buyers are starting to identify the beneficial options buyer’s advocates provide. Through skilled purchasing, buyer’s advocates make sure clients don’t pay over market value for their ideal property. The advantage of…
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EPM
Annual rental growth lowest on record, Core Logic
2015 was a lacklustre year for rental growth in Australia with rents increasing by just 0.3% in 2015; not exactly the news investors are looking to read about but good news for those looking to rent according to CoreLogic RP Data research analyst Cameron Kusher. “We’ve never seen rental growth as sluggish as it is at the moment. Furthermore, we’re expecting to see more of…
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EPM
Why You Can’t Afford To Miss PMC2016
It’s that time of year again! Time to get your tickets to the biggest property management conference in this part of the world, PMC2016 (formerly the Wealth Conference). As well as 30 sessions with key industry figures, you can take part in profit benchmarking workshops, a tribunal moot court, a BDM competition and a study tour. Apmasphere’s Property Management conference…
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Real Estate News
Aussie Families Snapping Up Holiday Accommodation
More Australian families are opting to stay home side for their summer holidays with the falling Australian dollar being a major deterrent in overseas travel, new research has found. The study released this month by leading real estate network LJ Hooker shows the softening Australian Dollar has had a positive effect on holiday rental markets around the country; with domestic…
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National
Lawlab Launches National Conveyancing Partnership Program
National legal property services specialist, Lawlab, has announced a new referral program to reward the growing number of Australian real estate agents helping their clients secure a property sale or purchase better, smarter and faster. Gone are the days of endless emails, phone calls, meetings and paperwork to secure a property transaction – Lawlab uses the Rundl property network to…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Dirt Cheap Real Estate and Generous Government Subsidies Driving First Time Buyer Activity in Darwin
Darwin first home buyers have faced the challenge of rapidly rising property prices in recent years, however with land packages worth as little as $116,000 selling fast, the worm has turned for first timers. “A number of new, affordable property developments, such as Palmerston’s Zuccoli Aspire1 where land packages start from less than $120,000, are being released to the market…
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EPM
PMs and Owners stand to Win with Digital Solar Partnership
Property management business solutions company, ireviloution, has partnered with a game changing digital solar technology company, Matter, to help positively disrupt the property management industry. Matter has launched Digital Solar, a world-first technology bundle that converts solar systems into micro-utilities, with benefits for every player in the property market. The Australian start-up is set to shake up the way property…
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National
Domain Launches App for Tracking Property Value
After launching the Home Price Guide in August, property website Domain.com.au today launched a new feature, Track My Home, which allows property owners to update the details of their home, and receive an updated property value estimate. Domain’s Home Price Guide provides homebuyers, sellers and renters with the estimated value, history, photos and other details of 13 million properties in…
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Elite Agent
What should you write about?
For your newsletter to be effective, the content has to be valuable. You want to give your readers information they want to know. If you give the same, boring content every single time, your newsletters will end up in the bin, and you can actually damage your brand and reputation. The purpose of your newsletter is to keep you on the…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Raine & Horne Toowoomba goes Local for Office Facelift
Raine & Horne Toowoomba has completed a major structural overhaul of its physical and online presence with the help of a number of local businesses. The Toowoomba real estate firm has integrated its two offices into a super office, located at 611 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, with the help of local architectural firm, CKD Architects. CKD Architects Josh Noller and Colin Davidson…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
House Estate Agents Toowoomba Join Forces with Coronis
Toowoomba’s powerhouse real estate agency, House Estate Agents, has merged with Coronis, one of Queensland’s largest real estate businesses, to offer the local market an award winning end-to end service that incorporates sales, property management, financial services, conveyancing, wills and estate planning and building and pest. Managing Director of Coronis, Andrew Coronis said, “With major infrastructure investment like the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing, rejuvenation…
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Brand Editorial
Is There More To Utility Connection Services Than Meets The Eye?
IN 2013, UTILITY CONNECTIONS COMPANY YOURPORTER launched as the only real estate industry-based connections company. We spoke with Tony Zarka, the General Manager of YourPorter, to find out more about how real estate offices can use the service to enhance their service offering and grow their business. TWO YEARS AFTER its launch, YourPorter is still the only connections company in…
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Real Estate News
Top LJ Hooker Agent John McManus to inspire at LNS15
There was a time when John McManus considered giving up real estate. He was young, new to the business and downtrodden after getting knock-back after knock-back every time he picked up the phone to prospect for new listings. “I had a fear of picking up the phone and talking to people and being told ‘no’,” he said. “I was being…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Ray White wins EY inaugural Family Business award
The Ray White Group has been named as Australia’s inaugural winner of the Family Business Award at the 2015 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards, held at The Star on Thursday 15 October – a milestone for a real estate business to receive this honor. The Family Business Award is not new to EY internationally, with the award handed out…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Fine & Country Launches in Australia
Fine & Country began as a family owned and run business and, although it is now a global brand, the company has retained its family values at the core of its business ethos. Malcolm Lindley began his career in property when he founded the Guild of Professional Estate Agents in London 30 years ago. The Guild was set up to…
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EPM
Fridge Calendars – Promote Your Profile All Year Round
In an increasingly competitive and fluctuating market, the need for agents to build their profiles within their community is more prevalent than ever. Whilst technology and social media have changed the way consumers shop, it is often a faceless medium and most agents would agree that printed media is still the most effective way of building your profile. Fridge calendars…
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Brand Editorial
Direct Connect Extends Partnership Reach to Insurance, Smoke Alarms And Conveyancing
YOU MAY ALREADY BE USING THE SERVICES OF DIRECT CONNECT; as one of the biggest connection companies in Australia they have been helping people move house for the past ten years. What you may not be aware of are some of the fantastic new services on offer from Direct Connect, making life even easier for your clients when it comes…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
New Forum to Inspire & Empower Women in Real Estate
The first of a series of networking events designed to connect, inspire and empower women in the traditionally male dominated real estate industry will be held in Sydney on October 21. The inaugural Catch up with the (property) girls event, sponsored by Realestate.com.au is the brainchild of Laing+Simmons Managing Director Leanne Pilkington and is designed to provide support and a…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Westpac launches Wonder – innovative technology to calculate equity
Westpac has this week announced Wonder, revolutionary customer-centric technology that is set to change the way home buyers; home owners, upgraders, investors and renovators view the equity in their property. Wonder, which is accessed through Westpac Live online banking, allows eligible customers to see the amount of equity in their property and equips them with knowledge and the confidence to reach…
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Real Estate News
Stay Open 24/7 for Just $7 a Day
Absolutely Brilliant is a new service that allows agencies to have a team of real estate professionals answering their callers 24 hours a day; even looking after the agencies’ staff mobiles and dealing with their calls when they can’t. It’s like the agency and their staff having personal assistants. And for an agency and their staff to operate 24 hours…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Michelle Bridges to Lead High Impact Event
Australian fitness guru Michelle Bridges will head a stellar line-up of inspirational speakers at the sixth annual List, Sell, Negotiate event. Hosted by high-performance real estate speaker, trainer and coach Josh Phegan and top auctioneer Damien Cooley from industry- leading Cooley Auctions, the event gives real estate agents the chance to reinvigorate and fuel themselves for success in 2016. “List,…
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EPM
ALPPPS Summit Offers Game Changing Leadership Strategies
Jam-packed with gamechangers, ALPPPS™ is a two-day property management leadership summit exclusively for principals, PM team leaders and career property managers who want to raise the bar in their business or career. Taking place on 3-4 March 2016 on the Gold Coast, day one is headlined by the winner of season one’s The Apprentice Australia and Head of Business Development…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
Best soil in Australia up for grabs for between $17 and $21 million
After a successful six year stewardship of the magnificent Kia Ora Aggregation located between Walgett and Brewarrina in northern NSW, owners Maurice, Sharon and John Swain have decided to put the 76,057 acre property on the market for sale. The massive property, which is being marketed for sale jointly by Danny Bukowski of Raine & Horne Rural Brisbane and Andrew…
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EPM
Gain a competitive advantage in your office with Absolutely Brilliant
Updated: 10 October Absolutely Brilliant is a new service that allows agencies to have a team of real estate professionals answering their callers 24 hours a day; even looking after the agencies’ staff mobiles and dealing with their calls when they can’t. It’s like the agency and their staff having personal assistants. And for an agency and their staff to…
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EPM
Rockend wins Employer of Choice at the Regional NSW Business Chamber Awards
Rockend has been awarded the winner of the Employer of Choice award at the North Eastern NSW Business Chamber Awards. The honour was delivered on 26 June 2015, in front of 300 guests in a ceremony which was hosted Luna Park. As stated on the official NSW Business Chamber Awards website, the Employer of Choice award “recognises excellence in HR…
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FRANCHISE NEWS
LJ Hooker Launches Auction Services
LJ Hooker have officially launched Auction Services, which will see the real estate giant expand services to cater for the full selling experience. LJ Hooker Auction Services which will operate in NSW and the ACT, will provide a superior auction experience which includes onsite and in-room auctions, ongoing training programs and forums and vendor assistance. Ricky Briggs, Auction Manager at…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
REIQ Summit Offers Secrets of Success
The REIQ Summit is a two-day conference that no real estate professional can afford to miss – with an array of spectacular speakers who will inspire, provoke and galvanise. Day two of the conference is focused on the whole real estate profession and will be headlined by the US queen of real estate, Dolly Lenz. Fresh from selling Rupert Murdoch’s…
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Real Estate News
Illuminated Signboards Light Up The Night
In today’s market, great ideas alone simply aren’t enough, but innovative execution can hand you a real competitive advantage. Nitelite, is a cutting-edge illuminated signboard by Printforce that offers round-the-clock visibility and features that maximise advertising space, improving the property’s exposure. Buyers can now see the full picture day or night with Nitelite’s edge-to-edge illuminated surface which uses environmentally friendly…
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EPM
Property IQ acquires leading real estate forms business
Property industry software provider PropertyIQ today announced it has acquired ADL Software, which is one of Australia’s leading suppliers of legal contracts, agreements and forms for the real estate industry. ADL Software provides ADLForms, an electronic contracts and forms solution for real estate professionals, as well as ADLInspect, which allows agents to easily complete condition reports on site using their mobile device. PropertyIQ Chief…
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