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David Highland: Gearing For Growth
DAVID HIGHLAND HAS personally sold more than $140 million worth of property in the last 12 months, with an average of 32 days on market. He is a third-generation real estate agent, and part of the founding duo of Highland Property Agents in Cronulla NSW with his father Peter, a successful property developer. Their business has expanded incredibly from its…
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Five New Offices for Century 21
Century 21, the one of the largest real estate sales network in the Asia-Pacific region, announced the expansion of its network with the opening of five new offices. The openings, which span across New South Wales, South Australia, the Northern Territory and New Zealand’s North Island, will increase Century 21’s coverage in the Australasian region. “These openings will expand the…
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Entries Now Open for Queensland’s Best Real Estate Report
The Real Institute of Queensland (REIQ) is seeking entries for Best Real Estate Report as part of its 2015 Awards for Excellence. REIQ Acting CEO Antonia Mercorella is urging journalists to get involved in the competition which will see the winner announced at a gala Brisbane event in February. ‘‘These awards are the most prestigious real estate event in Queensland,…
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Get the lead, then don’t be beaten!
Solid leads are both the lifeblood and the bane of real estate agents’ existence. When you’re converting leads to listings and sales you feel invincible and suddenly all is right in your property world. Without leads or without converting leads, you have no listings and without listings you can’t make sales. The trouble many agents face is avoiding the ebb…
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Never Let Anyone Stand Between You And Your Customer
THERE IS A NEED for real estate specialists to reposition themselves as being at the centre of transactions, writes LJ Hooker CEO Grant Harrod. TECHNOLOGY has transformed how we live, interact and work. It creates efficiencies in our daily operations and solves problems in real time. Every industry has been transposed to varying degrees by the advent of new technological…
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Vendors Behaving Badly
HOME NOT SELLING? Kylie Davis from RP Data talks to Andrew Winter, host of award-winning television show Selling Houses Australia, about why homes don’t sell and what you can do to fix the problem of vendors behaving badly. THERE ARE three reasons why properties don’t sell, according to Andrew Winter, host of award-winning television show Selling Houses Australia. Each of…
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Homegrown Property Intelligence
nearmap Property brings an alternative to the established players in the property market with a powerful interactive suite of visual and analytical property intelligence tools. nearmap Property features two products, an Agent Reporting Tool called ART and a property add-on for nearmap’s MapBrowser. ART is a nation-wide CMA Report generation tool, enabling real estate agents to produce instant customised reports,…
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Brisbane and Perth Offices Dominate Commercial Property Awards
Raine & Horne Commercial Brisbane North was a big winner at this week’s Raine & Horne National Awards, held at Sydney’s iconic Opera House, while a purple patch for commercial markets in Perth also helped land Raine & Horne WA a number of coveted gongs. Raine & Horne Commercial Brisbane North was named Top Commercial Office (Dollar Value) for a…
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Requirements for an effective real estate website
There are many different ways to build a real estate website. WordPress makes a good base for a real estate website, and there are many companies that sell their own version of a real estate website. Regardless of the approach you choose, these are some of the most basic requirements for making a real estate website worth your investment. 1.…
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The Listings Stoush is About More Than Price Rises
Beth O’Brien, Chief Revenue Office at Onthehouse Group and founder of the Real Estate Ad Network gives her opinion on how agents can begin to ‘even the playing field’ with the portals through the use of next generation marketing. I recently sold my own property in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Like most vendors, I ended up paying a huge fee for online advertising, one that equated…
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Cooling Off Period: Using the winter months wisely
It’s no secret that winter is traditionally a quieter time in real estate, as vendors usually hold out to sell in the traditional booming spring and autumn periods. Last July the REIV recorded just 1,920 auctions in Victoria for the month, compared with 5,040 and 4,750 auctions during November 2013 and March 2014 respectively. In our Chelsea office alone, we…
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Tips, Scripts and Moments from AREC 14
I sat in most of the sessions taking copious notes like many of the attendees, and here are 12 of the top things I took away from this year’s amazing show. 1. Listen, Diagnose, Prescribe From the moment he walked on stage and told everyone to “pretend they knew nothing, and start afresh”, there was not a moment when Tom…
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The Finishing Touches for an Open House Inspection
You should always think of the open house as a first date with a prospective buyer: you only get one chance to make a lasting impression. Here is a guide for your vendors on keeping their home show worthy whilst on the market While it is common knowledge to de-clutter and clean every nook and cranny in the house, what is…
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Australian Entrepreneurs Revolutionise PNG Real Estate
Papua New Guinea’s real estate search has moved online thanks to some local and Australian entrepreneurs. In March 2014 the real estate portal www.hausples.com.pg (pidgin English for ‘house place’) was launched and it has already gathered a lot of momentum with over 9,000 Facebook followers and major site sponsorship from the Bank of South Pacific. Hausples.com.pg CEO Brian Byer explains…
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Elite Agent TV: More AREC Takeaways!
Top tips from AREC14 from LJ Hooker Agent Nyree Ewings.
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RE/MAX launches video contest for a $25k Holiday Grand Prize
The RE/MAX real estate network launches an Australia-wide competition today (16 June) seeking a winning video that showcases a home; and, in store for its creator is a holiday worth $25,000. “I’ve had many years in real estate,” said RE/MAX Australia Managing Director Michael Davoren, “but I don’t believe I’ve seen a competition as creative, exciting and quirky as this.”…
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REINSW Applauds ACT Budget, Stamp Duty Cuts, Over 60s Incentives
The New South Wales Government should follow the lead of the Australian Capital Territory which has reduced its tax rates for transfer duty and brought in incentives for over 60s, according to the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales. On Tuesday 3 June 2014, ACT Treasurer Andrew Barr announced as part of the 2014-15 Budget, reduction in transfer duty…
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Work out with Tom Panos at AREC14
Tom Panos is one of Australia’s most respected industry identities and a firm believer in the 5am club – an association that believes waking up early leads to a more productive and fulfilling day. At AREC 2014, Tom will be bringing a few new things into his role as MC, as well as bringing to life the famous 5am club, in…
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What’s the Link Between Social Signals & SEO?
Over the past few years there have been a lot of speculation on whether social signals from sites like Facebook and Twitter and even Google Plus factor into Google’s search algorithm. Do things like the number of Facebook “Likes” , Twitter “retweets” and Google +1s have a direct impact on how you are ranked on Google Search? SponsoredLinx SEO guru…
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Harnessing the Unconscious with Dr Fred Grosse
“My basic premise is to teach business people how to achieve everything that’s important to them before they die.” Dr Fred Grosse. Dr Fred Grosse is many things to many people. He is an ordained Rabbi, a psychotherapist, a reputed business coach and a practitioner of Gestalt therapy. He is a popular speaker and a veteran of many ARECs past…
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What does $1m buy around the world?
As the price of property continues to increase in Australia, an increasing number of buyers are looking offshore to invest in real estate, and there are many options to explore. The value of the dollar stretches much further in some regions than others. A small unit in London will run about a $1m where as for the same price you can buy…
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Australia’s Best Beach House Hits the Market
The owners of a Whitsundays mansion, recently dubbed the best beach house in Australia, have put their 75 acre beachfront property on the market. The property has around 400m of absolute beachfront and hits the market through Mark Beale of Ray White Whitsunday, with price expectations of $10m. Owners of the property, Ian and Sissy Bishop have lived in the…
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Onthehouse Group Consolidates Brands and Bundles Offerings
The Onthehouse Group today announced at Ideas Exchange 14 a consolidation of its range of real estate software products under its Console brand, and unveiled a host of complementary upgrades and product bundles for property agents. The move will bring together Console’s existing product suite, and group GatewayLive, LiveAgent, and OnlineAgent with software solutions such as WebChoice, MobileAgent and ClientManager…
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Construction set to begin on Brisbane’s Proximity Hamilton
With 57 apartments worth $26.4 million now sold, construction is set to begin on Brisbane’s latest luxury apartment development, Proximity Hamilton. The developers, Oakstead Investments, today announced that earthworks would start in June 2014 with the 24-month build scheduled for completion in mid 2016. Designed by celebrated Brisbane architects Cottee Parker, Proximity Hamilton is a stunning 14-storey, 127-apartment tower in…
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Work it: Making the most of the content you create
One of the best ways to get noticed as an agent is to create content relevant to your market. Social media is a powerful platform where you can engage your prospects and customers across several channels, distributing your content far and wide. While there are plenty of social platforms to consider, the good news is you don’t need to create…
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Our Exclusive chat with Chris Heller
Chris Heller achieved his real estate license in 1983 when he was 20 years old, and started selling properties in 1989. That’s more than 3,100 houses in the last 27 years. Chris arrives in Australian in less than two weeks a keynote presenter for two sessions at the Ideas Exchange in both Sydney and Melbourne. Still known as ‘Heller the…
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Traditions to Tech Geeks, Compton Green
Compton Green are one of the oldest and most widely recognised brands in Victoria, and are well known for superstar Auctioneer Adrian Butera who will be speaking at Ideas Exchange this year. Going strong since 1926; today they are blazing a trail in the industry through their cutting edge use of technology. Let’s start by unveiling real estate cobweb territory.…
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‘Brand-Engagement’, you’re doing it Wrong
Imagine for one moment you’re in a Broadway audience in New York. You’ve come a long way to see a play. This is going to be the highlight of your trip to the ‘Big Apple’. You’re seated. Excited. Anticipating a great show. So are the rest of the audience. You can feel their excitement. The theatre is filled with the…
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Don’t let your leads slip away
My father was recently telling me the story of how one day he decided to clean out his office. After being in real estate for well over a decade he had an enormous amount of paperwork in filing cabinets. Every time he went out to see a potential clients to do a quote, he would start up a new client…
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realestate.com.au launches neighbourhoods
realestate.com.au has unveiled rich, in-depth content and imagery on Australian suburbs at realestate.com.au/neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods now helps consumers understand the lifestyle, people, typical streets and day-to-day activities and amenities an area has to offer, to enable them to find out if a suburb meets their lifestyle needs. For example, Prahran in Melbourne is described as “a blend of glamorous South Yarra…
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Property Industry Charity Launches Young Leadership Program
A PROPERTY and construction industry charity aimed at helping to combat youth homelessness will launch its young community leadership program for its Queensland branch in Brisbane on April 3. With a swag of Queensland industry heavyweights already behind it, the Property Industry Foundation wants construction and property players big and small to lend a hand. Established in NSW almost 20…
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High-speed rail could help Sydney’s housing affordability issues
Leading real estate group Raine & Horne says an east coast high-speed rail (HSR) network between Brisbane and Melbourne will not only underpin long term property prices in regional centres in NSW, Victoria and South East Queensland, but also help relieve some of Sydney’s affordability pressures. According to one recent media report, the high-speed rail linki is back on the…
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First National supports Vic Regional Living Expo
First National Real Estate will continue its support of the Victorian State Government’s Regional Victoria Living Expo, which is expected to draw even larger crowds than it did in 2013. The network will showcase properties at the Expo but will also have representative members on hand to answer questions about lifestyle and real estate throughout regional Victoria. “Last year, the…
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
When Aron hiked into a remote area of Utah’s canyon country, he was an experienced outdoorsman out for a walk in the park. Seven miles into the canyon that day, Aron accidentally dislodged a boulder that crushed and pinned his right hand. After six days of entrapment alone, he freed himself with a cheap multi-tool knife and hiked to a…
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Nextplace Launches Real Estate Matching Website
A fast growing tech start-up has today launched Australia’s newest online matching service for property owners and real estate agents. Nextagent.com.au allows residential and commercial property owners to list their home or business for free. Real estate agents pitch to sell or lease the home or business on the owner’s behalf. Property owners then choose the most suitable agent based…
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