Beyond the sales figures, what separates the best agents from the rest?
After taking home two honours at the 2026 REIQ Awards for Excellence, REMAX Select's Leanne Druery shares why consistent habits, honest conversations and long-term client relationships matter just as much as the numbers.
Ray White Cottesloe adds five property managers as rents surge
The coastal Perth office has grown its asset management team to 14 as house rents in Mosman Park and Peppermint Grove climb more than twice as fast as the rest…
Erin Marr uses one half-hour open home to draw multiple offers in North Orange
Erin Marr directed every enquiry to a single half-hour inspection, drawing multiple offers on a tenanted North Orange…
Vendor pricing conversations get harder as stock piles up
With national listings at a five-year high and asking prices softening in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide, agents are…
Allhomes raises $74,000 for Canberra domestic violence housing
The Great Big Bulb Dig fundraiser has pushed Allhomes' two-year partnership with YWCA Canberra past $160,000, with proceeds…
Sharehouse tenancy rules are overdue for an update, researcher says
A Swinburne study of sharehouse renters argues current regulations don't fit shared living, with the ACT's reforms offered as a possible model for the rest of Australia.
The rental market is easing – but are we mistaking slower growth for progress?
As rental growth slows and conditions, Harcourts’ Karmen Costigan explains why affordability remains a challenge and what the changing market means for landlords, tenants and property managers.
Rental boom shifts back to capital cities as regional growth loses momentum
Capital city rents are rising more than twice as fast as those in regional Australia, as new data reveals a widening divide in rental growth despite improving availability.
Power with, not power over – Lisa Pennell on leadership beyond labels
Everyone wants to get to the top. Then you get there and wonder who you can talk to. Barry Plant CEO Lisa Pennell joins Samantha…
Can you teach trust? John Cunningham on hiring good people
What 2026’s BDM Summit Taught Us About Rent Roll Growth
A sold-out room, six very different speakers and one shared focus: rent roll growth. The 2026 BDM Summit looked beyond simply generating more leads to…
Dom Thurbon’s challenge to turn conference ideas into action
Owen White promoted to associate director at RWC Western Sydney
Six years after leaving a career in fitness, the industrial specialist has driven more than $368 million in sales across Western Sydney's M4 and M7…
Why some real estate teams outperform others – and what leaders can do differently
Great real estate teams don't just function, they thrive through connection, communication and collaboration. This piece explores how authentic relationships,…
Stop relaying offers – start actually negotiating them
Why passing numbers back and forth isn't negotiation, and what to ask buyers instead to…
You still have to be their person
My LinkedIn feed scored 36% human. What does that mean for agents trying to build…
Why the agents who double down now will win the recovery
Charles Tarbey says the toughest markets reward those who keep building stock while everyone else…
Buyer demand fell but buyers’ agents’ revenue didn’t budge
New index data shows 76% of buyers' agents have shifted to fixed fees, a structural…
Shorts
Using a brain to hold a pen
Model Context Protocol is reshaping real estate software by letting AI connect directly to CRMs,…
AI could change who controls the relationship between agents and buyers
A Harvard Business Review analysis suggests AI assistants acting on buyers' behalf could reshape real…
That’s so 2025 (and what to ask AI for instead)
In part two of the Transform XIV highlights, Samantha McLean retires four prompts she used…
How to build a single property website with ChatGPT
I gave ChatGPT 51 property photos and one prompt. Twenty-eight minutes later it handed back…
The chatbot era is dead (and your AI is ready for a real job)
Samantha McLean opened Transform XIV by calling time on typing questions into ChatGPT, then showed…
Complain to your AI (it’s the quickest way to a personal assistant)
Power with, not power over – Lisa Pennell on leadership beyond labels
Can you teach trust? John Cunningham on hiring good people
That’s so 2025 (and what to ask AI for instead)
The chatbot era is dead (and your AI is ready for a real job)
Why good people stay – Andrew McCann on culture and the panic hire
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