As you may have seen from my previous articles posted here on Business2, I’m very passionate about our industry and am constantly on the look out for changes in technology and what lies ahead for our industry. Over the past couple of years I’ve been travelling around the country teaching real estate agents about how [...]
Greg Vincent
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Greg Vincent The Online Guy for Real Estate Professionals is a Speaker, Trainer and is a highly respected online strategist. As a real estate professional with Internet and Social Media nous, Greg Vincent presents the how-to on getting the most out of the internet and social media without the “geek speak”. His insights into on-line real estate marketing are sought throughout Australia and valued for cutting through the confusion that locks many out of gaining full value from the web. After 20 years as a real estate agent, Greg now has multiple web-based businesses and works with some of the best agents in Australia.
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realestate.com.au launches new Fresh Start Project
In a press release, “realestate.com.au today announced the launch of a new microsite the freshstartproject.com.au, an interactive site which hopes to raise awareness around housing affordability for low income families. The Fresh Start Project campaign is the latest instalment forming part of realestate.com.au’s spring activity which helps Australians get fresh start in life. Joanne Whyte, [...]
CEO Responds To Yet Another Stuff Up!!! Where is Our Data Going?
In response to my previous article Yet Another Stuff Up!!! Where is Our Data Going? I was contacted directly by the CEO of RPData – Graham Mirabito to clarify who was responsible for the data error. I invited Graham to comment directly on B2 or have me post the explanation of events for them. Here [...]
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You be the judge…are Lawyers Real Estate breaking the law or not?
As a licensed real estate agent within the state of NSW, if I was to open a business as Greg Vincent Lawyers or Greg Vincent Solicitors, etc without the right accreditations in place then how long do you think I could remain conducting a legal practice? Yet, Peter Mericka of Lawyers Real Estate has either [...]
Yet Another Stuff Up!!! Where is Our Data Going?
This is the question that an agent posed to me earlier today after yet another stuff up by the big boys. I was speaking at an event yesterday where one of the agents mentioned the CommBank Property Guide iPhone App and the significant amount of data that was now being made available via realestate.com.au and [...]
NSW Residential Tenancy Bill 2010 looks like being pushed through Parliament
In a decision that is set to impact approx. 1 in 4 people within New South Wales, the new Residential Tenancy Bill 2010 has now been passed without amendment by the Lower House of the NSW Parliament and has just been introduced into the Upper House. Earlier this week I posted an article on apmasphere [...]
Former Miss Australia & TV Stars Are Playing A Role In Real Estate
A couple of weeks ago I met with former Miss Australia, Caroline Pemberton and spoke at length with her about the new role she is playing within the real estate industry. Caroline, who is a TV Presenter, Speaker, Model has recently been doing real estate video presentations for high-end properties within the Sydney market. Previously [...]
RealEstateView.com.au and PropertyData.com.au Officially Launches in NSW
The REINSW are holding their official launch event tonight to mark the first stage of rolling out the National Industry Based Real Estate Portal, RealEstateView.com.au and their National Sales Data platform, PropertyData.com.au into the NSW market. Prior to the launch a number of the major real estate franchise groups have demonstrated their support for the [...]
National Industry Based Portal: Looks Like Finally Becoming a Reality
Throughout Australia, Real Estate Agents have been screaming out for a National Industry Based Real Estate Portal for years and while the real estate institutes had previously decided that they wanted to run state based portals seperately, only 2 institutes managed to achieved any significant success with their real estate portals, REIWA.com.au in WA and [...]
Domain.com.au Agrees to Upload Over 1700 Private Sellers in One Go
It will be very interesting to see how the real estate community reacts to domain.com.au’s decision to allow some 1739 Private Seller listings to be uploaded onto their site by buymyplace.com.au. Property Portal Watch author Alice Allen announced that “Listings from For Sale By Owner portal buymyplace.com.au have now been added to domain.com.au,” For years [...]
Realestate.com.au Announce Enhancements to Mobile Site
In their latest press release, Realestate.com.au have just announced some enhancements to their mobile site… Henry Ruiz, General Manager Consumer Marketing for realestate.com.au indicated the new mobile website features will allow obsessed property hunters to access important property information, at the touch of a button. “Given the heightened activity in the property market realestate.com.au’s enhanced [...]
Yahoo!7 and Realestate.com.au ‘Shack Up’ and Form New Partnership
REA Group have just announced that they have formed a partnership with the Yahoo!7 site. Here’s a copy of this morning’s press release. ” YAHOO!7 AND REALESTATE.COM.AU ‘SHACK UP’ AND FORM NEW PARTNERSHIP Addition of property listings means Yahoo!7 visitors can find everything ‘under the one roof’ SYDNEY, Australia, 5 May, 2010 – Australia’s largest [...]
Realestate.com.au has sights set on innovation & announces ‘Premiere Property’
Yesterday, Greg Ellis, CEO/Managing Director presented an inside look of some of the features of the new site to a large group of agents at the realestate.com.au ‘Open For Inspection’ event in Sydney. From what Greg Ellis said, part of their future plans for innovation within the new site upgrade means that we can look [...]
