League tables for suburb performance based on medians can make for popular reading. However the results should often be challenged, especially where sample sizes are small, property sales not representative or where the price ‘distribution curve’ is skewed. For an agent working in one of these ‘worst’ suburbs, it is always good to know the [...]
Free to consumer price estimates are popular tools in North America, but they are not without problems. In the coming year or two we expect to see automated valuation modelling being used more widely in Australia – offering either existing or new portal entrants a way to stand out in a rather tough online marketplace. [...]
Unbeknown to most real estate principals when they contract a web development company to build them a new website, they are not actually purchasing a website but rather locking themselves into a lease agreement for a site. Almost in all cases, the IP for the site (technology, code and even web design) belongs to the [...]
Domain last week released it’s first entry into the realm of iPad apps and it appears to be an awesome app at that! The app is of course available free and bears no resemblance to the boring, slightly useful but very slow iPhone apps released previously by Domain and REA. This app makes searching for [...]
There’s no denying that the Apple iPhone has dominated the mobile telephone market in recent times and tech heads seem to have created apps for pretty much every purpose imaginable. Now an app has been released suitable for Australian real estate agents to perform quick calculations. Agent Calculator has been developed by Tasmanian real estate [...]
There are some issues and problems which can occur when trying to create or sustain an online presence. After performing some recent work with Agentpoint they thought it would be useful for me to share some of my knowledge with the audience of Business2. Often these are issues that many people either do not realise [...]
Not to be confused with another property portal website – this is actually a real estate industry news website and I must admit it is very impressive. Property Observer is headed up by well known property journalist Jonathan Chancellor who was previously at The Sydney Morning Herald for the last 25 years in the capacity [...]
The inagural Australian RE BarCamp kicked off with a bang at the Loft Bar on Tuesday. Given the event fell the day after the AREC conference it was well received because of the relaxed and “Unconference” structure. As discussed in this post RE BarCamp coming to Australia the day is all about sharing information, discussing experiences, [...]
OzHomevalue is a Realestate.com.au owned website for property vendors providing them with sales data information in relation to the suburb where the vendor’s property is located. From their homepage: OzHomeValue provides a comprehensive property report to help find the value of your home. Try our easy to use, obligation free system and receive your FREE [...]
Microsoft has purchased Skype for an incredible 8.5 billion (thats around $36 Australian Dollars) in a deal most believe is to alleviate the threat from Google’s limited but excellent Google Voice software. The company was last purchased for 2.7 billion, so this is not a bad return on the investment, although Skype still continues to [...]
It’s been an action packed two weeks which started with REA’s sale of Realholidays and has built up since then. There is certainly some major restructuring taking place in Australia’s online real estate space: As a follow up to BuyMyPlace.com.au being kicked off REA other agent assisted and private selling sites including Forsaleforlease, Myhomeisforsale and [...]
Realestateguide is an Australian real estate portal who’s been operating under the radar for some time now. They appear to have found success in their SEO strategy and have in place a formula delivering a high number of property seeker leads to agents. To take this strategy to the next level and launch it nationally to all [...]
I have just realised that tomorrow the 17th of Feb (or that could be today, or even yesterday, depending on when you read this!) is my 10th anniversary of having a presence on the internet. The day I uploaded my first website www.underdownunder.com.au for my business at the time, a backpacker tour company in Tasmania. [...]
Each and every year we see new online solutions or technology that enter our industry, many are raised and discussed here at length on this blog. There are 5 levels of adoption in most innovations and the challenge of many of these solutions is to break through the Innovator and Early Adopter levels and start [...]
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