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Elite Agent
How to publish content marketing every single day without running out of ideas
In the real estate industry, you need to put your name in front of potential vendors all the time to create brand recognition and build trust.
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How real estate agents can create engaging content for the blog section of their website
It’s not every day an average person looks for a real estate agent. But when they do, agents need to have an established, engaging online presence to win their business.
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Why your buyers are being slugged with higher rates: Nick Bendel
Interest rates are rising. In the past few weeks, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and Westpac have hiked their rates. So have ING, Suncorp Bank and Adelaide Bank. Your buyers might find this hard to accept, given that the last time the Reserve Bank increased the official cash rate was in November 2018 – almost eight years ago. If your buyers ask…
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As rates go up, open home traffic might go down
Don’t let the Reserve Bank’s inactivity fool you. Interest rates are actually rising. That might seem strange. After all, the Reserve Bank has left the official cash rate at a record-low 1.50 per cent since August 2016. The last increase came way back in November 2010 – and some economists believe the next one might not occur until 2019 or…
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The days of investors getting easy finance are gone: Nick Bendel
There’s been an important development in Australia’s mortgage market that real estate agents need to be across. APRA, the banking regulator, recently told lenders to be wary of letting investors borrow at “very high debt-to-income levels” – which it defined as any mortgage more than six times their income. Although APRA didn’t categorically ban loans above this six-times-income benchmark, banks…
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The results are in, the investor crackdown has hit hard: Nick Bendel
No, you’re not going crazy – investors really have been piling out of the market in a big way. The latest seasonally adjusted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics prove the point, with investment lending in March 2018 falling to its lowest level since January 2016. The value of investment finance commitments dropped 9.0 per cent over the month…
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