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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 85: Adam Bryant and Bobby Reynolds – Behind the suits
In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, Samantha McLean catches up with the boys from Agency Central, Adam Bryant and Bobby Reynolds. Adam and Bobby share their real estate journey so far, their philosophy behind social media, digital marketing and the making of their successful podcast.
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Real Estate News
Juwai.com partners with Archistar to launch Property Feng Shui Reports
Juwai.com has launched a new service in partnership with Archistar offering Chinese real estate buyers the option of analysing the floor-plans of potential acquisitions for Feng Shui. Archistar is an Australian Proptech startup, responsible for creating and operating a Feng Shui analysis feature that assesses floor-plans and provides insights and design recommendations. To celebrate the launch, Archistar conducted a Feng Shui…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
John McGrath – What it takes to win in 2019
In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, it's a warm welcome back to John McGrath. Samantha McLean caught up with John to talk about this year's AREC conference, winning in the current market, the future and what's changed since he wrote the classic You Inc. back in 2003.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
United Nations reviews ambitious plan for sustainable floating cities
The United nations this week was presented with a new frontier for human settlements, along with the possibility of living sustainably and in harmony with life below water. Bjark Ingels Group (BIG) presented Oceanix City at the first United Nation’s high-level Roundtable on Sustainable Floating Cities. Co-convened with OCEANIX, the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering and the Explorers Club, BIG’s…
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Real Estate News
Budget 2019 focused on a strong economy
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg handed down the Federal Budget last night. With a Federal Election on the horizon, the centrepiece of the budget was a cash rebate pitch to middle income earners and no changes to taxation legislation this side of an election. It’s the second year in the row there was no mention of…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 83 Owen Wilson: ‘Stay the Course’
In this week's special edition of The Leadership Diaries, Samantha McLean sat down exclusively with the new CEO of REA Group, Owen Wilson. With the industry currently in a fluctuating state, Owen shares his immediate goals for REA Group, where he sees the opportunities for growth in the industry and what the future might look like. He also shares some…
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Elite Agent
‘Together we will succeed’: Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson stepped into the top job at realestate.com.au in January – amidst arguably the worst downturn in the property market in the past 10 years. With an uncertain year ahead and global players such as Facebook making their own plans in real estate, Wilson’s overall philosophy is that it’s time for REA Group and agents to work together for…
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Real Estate News
Century 21 welcomes Warren McCarthy as their new CEO
Century 21 Australasia has announced the appointment of Warren McCarthy as their new CEO. Mr McCarthy, an industry veteran of 35 years has held senior roles with LJ Hooker (as CEO) where he was instrumental in growing the network across Australia as well as into India and South East Asia. More recently he was a member of the McGrath Group…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 82: Dave Stewart – Transparent and time saving transactions
In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, Samantha McLean catches up with industry gamechanger Dave Stewart. Dave is the AREA award-winning brain behind Market Buy, an online offer management system that is making it as easy for consumers to buy houses just like they're buying their groceries.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Negative Gearing reform will increase rents and decrease values: SQM
If Labor’s negative gearing policy is legislated in its current form, expect a rise in rental yields which will occur through a combination of falling house values and, eventually, a rise in rents. That’s the headline from an update to an SQM Research (SQM) research paper released in November 2018, modelling the proposed Labor Party changes to negative gearing that…
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Real Estate News
InfoTrack launches product to safeguard trust account details from cyber criminials
Tech company InfoTrack has launched a product called Securexchange to protect real estate agents, conveyancers and buyers from the threat of large financial loss during property exchanges. InfoTrack General Manager Lee Baillie says that the system has been specifically designed to prevent the intercepting of insecure emails which may include settlement bank account details. Instead of getting the correct account…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 81: Kul Singh – The latest rental research and The ‘Real Ideas’ Prize.
In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, realestate.com.au’s General Manager of Rent, Kul Singh joins Samantha McLean to analyse landlord habits that may surprise you, share his tips on how you can stand out as the go-to property manager of choice and he also gave us an exclusive look into The Real Ideas Prize. realestate.com.au's groundbreaking new competition that aims to reimagine the…
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Video of the Week
Barbara Corcoran: When to ask for a raise
Barbara Corcoran will be speaking at AREC 2019 on the Gold Coast. For more information and tickets visit arecconference.com.
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 80: Tom Panos – Advice for the current market, Whats happening at AREC19, The Leadership Diaries
In this weeks edition of the Elevate podcast as part of our series, The Leadership Diaries, Samantha McLean talks to real estate coach Tom Panos about AREC 2019. The two-day extravaganza is not far away and we got Tom, who is once again hosting this year, into the studio to give us the inside scoop of what you can expect from the…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Jellis Craig launches innovative suburb reporting
Victorian boutique group Jellis Craig have launched an innovative resource to help buyers and sellers make informed property decisions. Suburb Reports are based on data sourced through Core Logic and are designed to provide potential and existing clients with up-to-date market insights while helping to drive leads for the group. Jellis Craig CEO Nick Dowling believes that the new reports…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 79: How to growth hack your business like Uber and Facebook with Anton Babkov
Want to hack your way to growth like the big guns of Silicon Valley? In this week’s edition of the Elevate podcast, Anton Babkov, CEO of Rexlabs, explains the mechanics of how to use the measurement tool they use - The North Star Metric or NSM.
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Real Estate News
UK and US Chiefs quit Purplebricks amid revenue downgrades
Purplebricks Group released a statement this morning stating the UK boss Lee Wainwright and US Boss Eric Echkardt would be leaving the business. The statement also reports updated revenue guidance figures for 2018/19 Financial year of GBP 165-175m (AUD 300-320m) has been revised down to GPB130 – 140m (AUD 240-260m), with expectations for the US markets and Australian markets similarly…
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EPM: Profile
The Little things: Ellayne Lim
Little Real Estate’s Ellayne Lim is a rare gem who has mastered the art of organisation, fairness and communication to a point where her Net Promoter Scores® for both owners and tenants are on par with some of the world’s most admired companies. Ellayne Lim has been in property management now for seven and a half years – all of…
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Real Estate News
Ratings and reviews experience is now live on realestate.com.au
Agent Ratings and Reviews, an unbiased platform to help agents get noticed by more people on realestate.com.au, is now live. Since being launched to agents in December 2018, over 4000 ratings and reviews have been collected from genuine past buyers and sellers. These have been gathered through a combination of agent invite and direct to consumer channels to create a…
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Real Estate News
Reinvigoration of IT strategy to kickstart McGrath’s future growth
McGrath Limited (ASX: MEA) announced its FY19 first-half results, showing an 18 per cent drop in revenue. A release to the ASX points to the subdued market conditions having an impact on performance, resulting in an EBITDA loss for the first half of $2.5 million. This result comprises the previously reported first-quarter loss of $1.9 million and a reduced second-quarter…
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Real Estate News
Revenue per listing up, but the future is adjacencies
Domain Holdings (ASX: DHG) released it’s 2019 half-year results on Friday, with the portal reporting a net loss of $156.4 million for the six months to December 2018. A non-cash goodwill write-down of $178.8 million drove the results into the red. Excluding this, Domain reported: Revenue growth of 0.3 per cent to $183 million EBITDA of $52.7 million Net Profit…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 78: Pancho Mehrotra on motivation and how your mindset determines your outcome
Having the right mindset can either make or break your chance of success at achieving your goals. In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, Pancho Mehrotra, CEO of Frontier Performance, breaks down the science of motivation, decision making and the difference between the wrong kind of stress and the right kind of stress to help you achieve whatever you…
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Elite Agent
Press to success: 19 ideas for agents to get noticed by the media
Writing and sharing a press release is an excellent way to generate awareness and buzz for your business, and it can even be an integral part of your content or property marketing strategy. Writing a press release is a bit different from writing a blog post, as you can’t just hit a publish button- you need to get past a…
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Real Estate News
The Agency adds award winner to boost regional presence
The Agency has completed the regional loop around the Sydney area with the appointment of Cveta Kolarovski to the team based in Newcastle. An agent who puts relationships before revenue, Cveta Kolarovski says she has been waiting for the right business to partner with in order to take her operation to the next level. “The decision to join The Agency…
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EPM: Technology & Social
It’s not all about fees: Kul Singh
It’s hardly an industry secret that the rental market is hot right now, with economic trends and more stringent lending criteria seeing the great Australian home ownership dream make way for a more transient living experience. realestate.com.au’s Kul Singh explains the shift is resulting in rental searches outstripping sales in some areas. It’s also seeing rental properties in many suburbs spending…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 77: Reducing waste in your business – John Knight
In a changing market, you might be thinking you need to cut costs. But that’s not necessarily the case, says Business Depot CEO, John Knight. It is better, he says to think about cutting waste and getting as productive as possible.
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SUPPLIER NEWS
Online platform allows buyer to purchase home while shopping for groceries
Ipswich Real Estate’s Dylan Ansems and Jason McNamara are savvy users of technology. When they listed a property in Woodend, their Click2Offer system sent an email to alert all parties interested in property that it was now open for online offers (over $365,000). When the email notification popped up on one parties phone, she immediately registered and made her first offer…
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Elite Agent
McGrath strengthen presence in Sydney’s Hills District
McGrath Estate Agents, a division of McGrath Limited (ASX:MEA), announced Jamie Benjamin has joined its company-owned sales team at McGrath Castle Hill servicing the Sydney’s Hills District. In addition, the company has also recruited Tamara Wikaruk who returns to the company after a three-year hiatus. Kon Stathopoulous, Head of Sales for McGrath’s company-owned offices, said, “We are thrilled to welcome…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 76: How’s the market? With special guest Nerida Conisbee, Chief Economist at realestate.com.au
“How’s the market?” It’s a question agents get asked a lot, not just by clients but by friends, family and the community. This week REA released their Demand Index for the last quarter of 2018 showing clearly that different areas are experiencing very different conditions. Our guest this week is Chief Economist at realestate.com.au Nerida Consibee who is the author…
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Real Estate News
The Agency completes Top Level Acquisition
The Agency Group Australia (ASX: AU1) via their wholly-owned subsidiary Ausnet has completed the acquisition of Top Level Real Estate – also known as The Agency East Coast. The announcement was made via the ASX last night. In addition to acquiring all of the shares in Top Level Real Estate, they have also raised $8.4 million via the issue of…
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Real Estate News
Market likely to correct, not crash, in 2019 says realestate.com.au
Today realestate.com.au launched its quarterly Property Outlook – January 2019 report (October to December 2018), analysing more than 80 million property searches. While the worst may not be quite over for Sydney and Melbourne, conditions remain highly variable across the country, year-on-year declines in Melbourne (-1.48%) and Sydney (-5.93%) look to be far less severe than many are reporting. Hobart,…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 75: Leading with heart and innovation: Peter Baines OAM
While you might not be familiar with the work of Peter Bains OAM many of you will clearly remember where you were when you heard about the Bali Bombings in 2002 or the Boxing Day Tsunami in Thailand in 2004. The identification of victims of both of those disasters fell to those who were first on the ground, in many…
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Real Estate News
Global PropTech data platform launches with more than 6,000 listings
Unissu.com has today launched its platform to the property industry. The business, which has classified over 6000 PropTech businesses from around the world, aims to help property professionals navigate the ongoing digital transformation of the industry. Having raised substantial funding from a wide investor base the platform offers real estate industry participants to register and search for information on all…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Ray White’s Malek Younan named Top Agent in Australia by SQM
CONGRATULATIONS go to Malek Younan of Ray White Gladstone Park who has just been named as the top residential agent in Australia by SQM Research. The inaugural list of Australia’s Top 100 Residential Real Estate Agents in 2018 was just released by SQM Research, with Malek Younan of Ray White Gladstone Park in Melbourne leading the list out of 53,650…
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THE ELEVATE PODCAST
Episode 74: Christmas special with Rik Rushton – 2018 in review and thriving in 2019
2018 is a year that has delivered winds of change travelling as fast as a Glenn McGrath Bouncer - cricket metaphor intended! It started in January with John McGrath ‘getting the band back’ together and this week’s guest Rik Rushton at the same time released a book called “The Power of Connection”. In this podcast, Samantha McLean takes Rik along…
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