10+ hour, 8+ min ago   (605+ words) A strategic marketing campaign targeting upsizers delivered two competing buyers and a pre-auction sale for Luke and John Higgins for a Botany townhouse. Luke and John Higgins knew the type of buyer who would buy 36/73 Banksia Street in Botany before…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (719+ words) Updated independent modelling commissioned by four of Australia's peak property and construction bodies estimates the Federal Government's housing tax package could reduce new dwelling starts by about 10,700 over four years, while pushing rents higher and cutting construction employment. Master Builders…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (543+ words) Anthony Kassis turned down a pre-auction offer to protect auction integrity — and delivered four bidders and an $828,000 result for a transparent Mascot vendor. The successful buyer was a local single man who had missed out on another apartment in the…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1467+ words) Matt Micallef says he walked away from a listing the morning of this interview, part of a client-selection approach he credits for 43 per cent of his business coming from referrals. Reaching Ray White Premier status just six weeks into the…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1234+ words) After 11 straight years as Australia's top-ranked agent, Alexander Phillips explains why he brought his entire Eastern Suburbs team into a new network built around AI buyer-matching technology. For more than two decades, Alexander Phillips has built one of the country’s…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (790+ words) Dubai’s extraordinary property run has hit a turning point, with residential prices recording their first annual fall in more than five years as a wave of new housing supply and more selective buyer behaviour begins to reshape the market. Average…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (605+ words) Ray White's chief economist says buyer attendance is rebounding in Sydney and Melbourne's priciest pockets, even as investor-heavy, affordable markets start to cool. Ray White Group data shows premium Sydney and Melbourne suburbs are recovering buyer interest – Eastern Suburbs attendance…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1492+ words) Tina Ashton says productivity, costs, technology and rent roll acquisitions can lift a business's performance even when transaction volumes and prices stay flat. But for Harcourts Chief Growth Officer, Tina Ashton, the danger is that business owners can become so…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (857+ words) Cotality forecasts auction volumes climbing to about 1,700 a week by 20 September, even as this week's combined clearance rate sits well below last year's 69.3 per cent. Across the capital cities, 1,485 homes are scheduled to go under the hammer this week, representing…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1046+ words) New laws requiring reserve prices to be published seven days out leave open how agents should handle a vendor changing their price or rejecting an offer late in the campaign. Victorian agents must publish a vendor's reserve price at least…...