Aussie Wine Regions Outperforming Sydney Property Markets

Vintage opportunities in the wine regions. What are the opportunities that Australia’s wine regions offer investors?   The wine industry makes a big contribution to Australia’s economy generating up to 40 billion dollars annually and offers the potential for some big returns for property investors. Simon Pressley from Propertyology shares his amazing research on the wine regions and the property market opportunities.   Continue reading Aussie Wine Regions Outperforming Sydney Property Markets

Blockchain: Transforming the Real Estate Industry by Creating Faster and Safer Transactions

This week Natalia Karayaneva of Propy.com joins us to discuss a trend that is radically transforming the residential real estate, mortgage, and title industries—Blockchain. Propy is the first blockchain company to provide transaction management. Blockchain allows a whole new level of security unlike anything that has been available before. Hackers can’t change it, wire transfers can’t be stolen, and it is so efficient that you … Continue reading Blockchain: Transforming the Real Estate Industry by Creating Faster and Safer Transactions

Historic First Brings Uncertainty

People physically attending auctions and open home inspections across Australia are now banned by the Federal Government under a new suite of measures aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus.   One Australian firm is offering solutions to help agents transition their customer interactions to digital and non-contact.  Joel Smith from Gavl talks about what you can expect to see agents doing in the future.   Continue reading Historic First Brings Uncertainty

Legal Eagles View of the Real Estate Market

What does the future hold for the real estate market? People are a little worried about how expensive it is to operate in the city of New York. Michael Stoler has assembled a group of legal eagles, Joel Marcus, Marshall Brozost, and Jack Gordon, to share their thoughts on the future of the real estate market. They will be discussing listing the Real Estate Tax-2019, … Continue reading Legal Eagles View of the Real Estate Market

The House Dick Built Burned Down

Late last year a house designed by Dick Clarke of Envirotecture burnt to the ground in the Gospers Mountain Bush.  Dick set about investigating why the house burned, and what can be learned to help rebuild it and other houses in fire-prone areas so that it is less likely to happen again.   He tells his remarkable story. Continue reading The House Dick Built Burned Down

Sellers Pull 40% of Auctions

Agents respond and show resilience Virtual auctions come to life Prior auction sales surge This week was set to be the busiest week of the year with 3,203 homes scheduled for auction across the combined capital cities.  With the disruption of new policies preventing on-site auctions, the auction withdrawal rate surged over the weekend, with 40 per cent of auctions pulled from the market, up … Continue reading Sellers Pull 40% of Auctions

Auctions Make Way for Private Sales

Private treaty sales will become the dominant method of selling as moves to ban public real estate auctions take effect amid Coronavirus fears, according to Australia’s leading body of professional buyer’s agents. Cate Bakos explains her reasoning on this. Continue reading Auctions Make Way for Private Sales

Sellers opt for a quick ‘no fuss’ sale + The house that Dick built

Highlights from this week: Is ‘off market’ a Reality Auctions Make Way for Private Sales The House Dick Built Burned Down Historic First Brings Uncertainty Sellers opt for a Quick ‘no fuss’ Sale Continue reading Sellers opt for a quick ‘no fuss’ sale + The house that Dick built

And So It Begins

Restrictions impact activities Agents explore new ways We hold our breath Last week Last week, auction volumes across the combined capital cities reached their second highest level this year with 2,599 homes taken to market. The higher volumes combined with uncertainty around COVID-19 saw the final auction clearance rate fall to the lowest level since June last year returning a 56.9% success rate. This week … Continue reading And So It Begins