VIC Real Estate News
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Jellis Craig rolls out new sales platform
Data-driven presentation platform SalesPreso has signed a deal with leading Victorian real estate agency group Jellis Craig that will see the sales technology rolled out across its network of 350-plus agents. SalesPreso co-founder Joel Thomson said the platform was a strong fit for the real estate industry, with REA Group, Domain, Vicinity Centres and now Jellis Craig, all implementing it.…
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Triple threat as brothers join Ray White Werribee
Continuing in the tradition of being proudly family owned and run, Ray White Group has recently welcomed three brothers on board in Werribee. The Krnjeta brothers – Robert (Partner/Auctioneer), Petar (Agent/Auctioneer) and Alex (Sales Associate) – said it was the company’s family values that attracted them to the business. “One of my key reasons for making the move to Ray White…
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Finalists announced for 2019 REA Excellence Awards
REA Group has announced the finalists for this year’s Annual REA Excellence Awards (AREAs), to be held in Melbourne on Thursday 14 November 2019. The AREAs honour the most innovative, community-minded and highest-achieving individuals and businesses in the property industry (residential, commercial, project developers) and media industry. There will be 21 awards in total presented…
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Barry Plant’s top performers awarded for excellence
Barry Plant Group’s stars shone at the company’s 2019 Awards for Excellence at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium recently, with nearly 800 people attending the black-tie event. The Frankston office had an outstanding night winning Franchisee of the Year and the Property Management Growth Award, with agent Bailey White joint winner of the Ron Hudson Rising Star Award. Geelong staff were also…
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Barry Plant Think Tank inspires property managers
Property management was front and centre at Barry Plant Group’s 11th annual Think Tank conference, which aimed to inspire and motivate property managers with innovative ideas and effective management strategies. Several impressive keynote speakers addressed the 175 Barry Plant staff members, discussing a range of strategies new methods of management skills. Barry Plant Group CEO and Director Mike McCarthy said…
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Well-known agent joins OBrien in Melbourne’s North-West
Victorian-based group OBrien Real Estate is set to change the face of property sales in the North-West corridor of Melbourne with the help of one of the local area’s most trusted faces. Jae Doyle, a multiple award-winning and respected local agent, has joined OBrien having worked in the local area for more than 15 years. OBrien General Manager Jason Mudford…
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Adelaide real estate specialists join forces
Adelaide’s western real estate specialists, LJ Hooker West Lakes and Power Real Estate of Port Adelaide, have merged to form the region’s leading real estate agency. LJ Hooker West Lakes directors Frank Azzollini and Josie Auricchio have joined forces with Steve Moffatt to operate as one office under the LJ Hooker banner. Mr Azzollini said the opportunity to bring the…
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Samantha McCarthy crowned hockingstuart’s best for the third year in a row
Victorian group hockingstuart celebrated its top performers last week at its annual awards night, with sales agent Samantha McCarthy from hockingstuart Werribee taking out Sales of the Agent of the Year in all three categories. Samantha, who has been with hockingstuart for more than 10 years, took out the coveted Sales Agent of the Year Award for the third year in a…
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Buxton opens commercial division headed by industry’s best
Award-winning Victorian real estate group, Buxton, has announced the launch of a Commercial and Industrial division, Buxton Commercial, led by sought-after industry specialist, Kenny Oliver. With company origins dating back to the 1860s, Buxton has grown to a network of 24 residential offices, a project marketing division (Projects by Buxton) and now Buxton Commercial to round out its property ecosystem.…
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realestate.com.au targets first home buyers with second series of How to Home Loan
realestate.com.au has continued its partnership with comedian Jess Harris –twentysomething, Wine – to release a second series of the hugely popular How to Home Loan video series, which explores the frustrations of first home buyers when embarking on their home purchasing journey. Season two of the tongue-in-cheek educational campaign shines a light on the realities of buying a home and…
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OBrien opens at Werribee
More than six years after OBrien Real Estate established its first franchise office in February 2013, the growing brand has now opened its 27th office, located in the growth belt of Melbourne’s west at Werribee. Originating from the south east of Melbourne, OBrien initially had all its offices situated on the east side of the Yarra River, but now there…
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Agents join forces in Whitehorse
The Whitehorse property landscape is set for a spring shake-up as two of the area’s agents join forces to create a formidable ‘power team’. The arrival of Jellis Craig Mitcham, which is the culmination of Noel Jones Mitcham joining Jellis Craig, will anchor a consolidated presence for Jellis Craig in Whitehorse. Further fortifying its footprint,…
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Ray White Victoria and Tasmania celebrates 2019 winners
More than 1,100 guests descended on the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre for the annual Ray White Victoria and Tasmania state awards on Thursday August 22 to celebrate the top offices and individual achievers throughout the leading network. Ray White Victorian and Tasmanian CEO Stephen Dullens welcomed everyone and reminded them all that the leading…
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Tom Larkin: Director of two offices at 29 with further growth plans ahead
Tom Larkin started in real estate on his 18th birthday. By 23 years old he had his own real estate office in an area he knew nothing about – Barry Plant in Frankston. By 26 he had become that area’s most successful agent and now, at 29, he is director of two offices, has a…
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Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate expands to Victoria
The footprint for Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate continued to grow with the opening of the first Victorian office in Richmond. With several offices already operating in New South Wales, the lifestyle brand is now focusing on its presence in strategic locations across the east coast of Australia. The new Richmond office will be operated by Michael and Laurel…
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Fletchers launches film to celebrate centenary
Reaching a major milestone such as a 100-year anniversary is a feat very few Australian real estate agencies ever accomplish. From humble beginnings at their first offices at 2 Cotham Road in Kew in 1919, to a network of over 20 offices more than a century later, the foundations established by the Fletcher family in…
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Ray White Berwick welcomes Debbie Brettoner and Matt Doyle
Debbie Brettoner and Matt Doyle, two of the highest performing agents in Melbourne’s south-east, have made the move to Ray White and will be joining Eric Zhang as directors of Ray White Berwick. With a combined eight years experience in the real estate industry, this mother and son duo believe their move to Ray White was the natural step in…
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Ray White Diamond Creek rises from the ashes
In November 2018, the Ray White Plenty office fell victim to a truly devastating fire in a neighbouring office that destroyed everything within their premises. But out of the ashes, the team was able to rise, and they are now celebrating the opening of their new office in Diamond Creek. “We had to set up office at our home residence…
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Danae Eden named as director of Barry Plant Mornington
Barry Plant Mornington has exciting news, with the announcement that Danae Eden has been named as director. Danae joins Chris Berryman as director of Barry Plant Mornington, with Danae and Chris combining for over 36 years of experience in the real estate industry. Barry Plant has been servicing the real estate needs of Mornington since 2004, with Chris Berryman becoming…
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The Agency opens in Victoria’s High Country with top agents Allana Storer and Kate McDougall
The Agency has announced the opening of its first regional office in Victoria’s High Country, after partnering with top agents Allana Storer and Kate McDougall. The Agency’s General Manager Victoria, Peter Kakos, said the growing brand was “thrilled to be linking arms and partnering” with such incredible talent. “The Agency had always wanted to expand to regional Victoria, but it…
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“Like Afterpay for VPA”: How CampaignAgent is streamlining cashflow for vendors and agents
Sitting on a ski lift on the way up the slopes of a snowy Mt Buller in 2015 is where the idea for CampaignAgent took off. Founded by Seth Watts, a real estate printer, and Shaun Moriarty, a finance professional, CampaignAgent is a Melbourne-based financial technology company that is shaking up vendor paid advertising, reducing…
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The annual Real Estate Sleep Out to take place next month
Cooley Auctions and Youth Off The Streets are calling on the real estate industry to brave the winter chill and take part in the 2019 Real Estate Sleep Out on Monday, 19 August. Now in its fourth year, Real Estate Sleep Out raises money and awareness for Father Chris Riley’s Youth Off The Streets. The event has expanded interstate since…
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Patrick Leo launches Buyers Agency service in Melbourne
Patrick Leo, a leading real estate agency specialising in investment property sales, has recently launched a Buyers Agency service in Victoria in response to growing demand. “We are excited to launch the buyers agency service. Many clients have asked us over the years to help source their homes after we have delivered them great results with investment properties,” said James…
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The Agency’s Jesse Raeburn to star on The Block
To succeed in real estate it takes a combination of tenacity and drive. It’s clear that the Agency’s Jesse Raeburn has both and it is one of the key reasons Jesse has found success as an agent in a short period of time. Those very same attributes have also managed to help Jesse gain a…
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Buxton and Beller unite to form real estate powerhouse
Two of the most established companies in Victorian real estate, Buxton and Beller, have joined forces, forming a formidable partnership under the Buxton brand. Founded in 1994, the Beller Group’s Windsor office, led by Beller Group Director Andrew Fawell, became Buxton Stonnington on July 1, bringing the company to a total of 24 offices across the state. While the company…
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Victorian developers to help foot bill for dangerous cladding
The Victorian Government will commit $600 million to address the dangerous cladding crisis in a bid to keep Victorians safe, but developers will also be hit with higher building levies to help subsidise the program. The Andrews Government will foot half of the $600 million bill, while the other funds will come from an increase in building permit levies for…
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Ray White Ballarat office celebrates 30 years
Working in production at his local TV station in 1984, Phillip Lee was wondering where his career would sit in 10 years. Little did he know, he’d go on to become a Ray White Ballarat Director and embark on a 30-year career with close friend and fellow Director Trevor Booth. “All around me people were moving to the ‘Big Smoke’…
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OBrien Real Estate extends its network into Melbourne’s eastern suburbs
OBrien Real Estate has welcomed a well-known local family agency to its growing network in Victoria, with the Molinaro family joining the brand. The Molinaro family business has been established for more than 30 years in the City of Whitehorse, and will join the OBrien family from July 8, operating from a state-of-the-art, brand new office in Blackburn. Husband and…
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Ray White Ballarat on the side of angels
Ray White’s Ballarat agents have raised thousands of dollars to help ‘bale’ out farmers in drought. The office donated $7,700 to the Drought Angels charity following their ‘Sale for a Bale’ drive, where residential, rural and commercial sales consultants made donations from the commission of each sale over a three-month fundraising campaign. Ray White Ballarat Residential Sales Consultant Paul McGourlay…
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Melbourne agencies Thomson Murrumbeena and Gary Peer & Associates join forces
Melbourne agencies Thomson Murrumbeena and the Gary Peer group have joined forces, providing the local market with over 90 years of combined local experience and expertise. Thomson Murrumbeena directors David Thomson, Anthony Lee and Felicity Thomson will all remain on board, focusing on their traditional areas of expertise. Mr Thomson will join the local Gary Peer sales team at 42…
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Familiar faces in Ararat, Victoria, now have a new name
Ararat’s most recognised team of real estate agents is joining Australia’s biggest real estate brand, opening the new Ray White office in the Victorian town. Business owner, Philip Clark said the opening of Ray White Ararat was a natural progression as his business looks to continue its growth by combining the team’s personalised service with the strength of the Ray…
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Technology leading the way for new disability accommodation
A new home in Brighton East, Victoria, is offering people with an intellectual disability an improved level of accommodation and support courtesy of assistive technology. Built by disability care provider St John of God Accord, the house features assistive technology developed by Quantify Technology and other partners, to give those with an intellectual disability an improved quality of life. Quantify…
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Buxton and Beller form formidable partnership
Two of the most established companies in Victorian real estate, Buxton and Beller, have announced they will join forces under the Buxton brand. The Beller Group’s Windsor office, founded in 1994 and led by Beller Group Director Andrew Fawell, will on July 1 become Buxton Stonnington, bringing the company to a total of 24 offices across the state. While the…
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Barry Plant achieves 15 straight years of ‘Highly Recommended’ customer service status
For 15 years running, the Barry Plant Group has achieved an elite benchmark with every Barry Plant office receiving a ‘Highly Recommended’ status for excellence in customer service. The Barry Plant Croydon office led by Matt Jinks and James Brougham were also recognised as the overall National Winner at the 2019 Australian Achiever Awards with a near-perfect score of 99.86…
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Stone Real Estate debuts in Ballarat
Stone Real Estate has opened an office in Ballarat, Victoria with two well-known locals, Jarrod Cloke and Samantha Prince. Jarrod said Stone’s fresh modern brand is a perfect fit for the Ballarat property market. “This town is attracting so much interest from both buyers and investors that a sophisticated boutique agency like Stone is exactly what it needs,” he said.…
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