Leanne Pilkington

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Leanne Pilkington is the General Manager of the NSW franchise group Laing + Simmons. Her previous roles have included residential sales as well as retail and commercial management. Leanne's current position provides her with a unique overview of the trends in the current market. She is a committee member of the Forum of Real Estate Networks and a Board Member of the REI NSW

Recent blog posts written by Leanne Pilkington

The 10 Most Common Failures of Bad Leaders

Harvard Business Publishing summarised the 360-degree feedback data on over 11,000 leaders from a study completed by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman. Here are the 10 most common leadership shortcomings. Interesting to note that the most successful and least successful differed most significantly in their energy and enthusiasm. How many of them apply to you [...]

Posted In Soapbox

Residential Tenancies Bill 2009

The Government has taken very limited industry consultation on the proposed Residential Tenancies Bill 2009 and the result weighs heavily in favour of the tenants.  Obviously the industry is all for protecting the rights of tenants, however if proposed clauses such as the tenants ability to break a fixed term lease and tenants being able to [...]

Posted In Legal, Real Estate Agents

What are the alarm bells in your business that alert you to a changing market?

Agents are generally optimistic people. A quiet month is just that, bound to be better next month. But what if your quiet month is the first indication of changing market conditions? What are the alarm bells that ring to alert you to it? Whilst some of us are great at monitoring the monthly KPI’s (and [...]

Posted In Business, Real Estate Agents