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What happens if real estate is de-classified as an essential service?  Right now, transactions can still proceed in Australia and while they are tipped to drop in numbers you only have to look at New Zealand to see how bad it could be if transactions...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a six-month moratorium on residential and commercial evictions but Antonia Mercorella - REIQ CEO says “there are far too many unanswered questions”  ...

PIPA Chairman Peter Koulizos said the wage subsidy of $1500 per fortnight to eligible employees and businesses has prompted a collective sigh of relief from tenants and landlords as well as everyone employed in the real estate sector nationwide.  He says there doesn’t have to be a philosophical debate over...

This week's highlight on Real Estate Talk. No Philosophical Debate Needed Too Many Unanswered Questions NZ Lockdown on Agents Halts Transactions eBay of Real Estate Investors Nervous About Tenanted Properties #rEealEstate #Realtor #OnlineAuctions #Australia #NewZealand #Lockdown #Coronavirus...

Miriam Sandkuhler is reporting that, as a buyers and sellers advocate, she is being inundated with requests to present ‘off market’ properties to her buyers.  Some of the requests are coming directly from sellers.  ...

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...

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...

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....