Anyone who has ever been a landlord will tell any prospective investors that having a good property manager is the ...
By Priya Murthy • 13 Jul 2014
5 property investment myths busted
There are several property investment staples Australian investors swear by, but are they fact or fiction? ...
By Priya Murthy • 14 Jul 2014
50,000 housing lots to be released in Melbourne
Victoria’s planning minister has announced that Melbourne's western, northern and south eastern growth corridors will ...
By Riaz Hasan • 09 Mar 2014
A demographic storm is coming
Australia's population is undergoing a number of significant shifts, but what does this mean for the economy and the var...
By Priya Murthy • 14 Sep 2014
Asbestos awareness
Australia banned the use of asbestos over 20 years ago, but many rental properties still contain the potentially-deadly ...
By Priya Murthy • 09 Sep 2014
Australian property ‘not even close to booming’
Reports that Australia is in the midst of a property boom which is set to crash are inaccurate and misleading, according...
By Riaz Hasan • 06 Mar 2014
Building a budget for a profitable department – Part 3
––In Part 1 we started to look at how to build a profitable department, taking a look at our current position and ...
By Priya Murthy • 19 Mar 2015
Houses vs apartments
Investors need to know which property type is going to benefit their bottom line. ...
By Priya Murthy • 26 Aug 2014
How landlords can increase their rental returns
Boosting rental returns is now a key issue for the owners of the rental properties, especially in areas of increasing su...
By Priya Murthy • 12 Aug 2014
How to screen your tenants
There is nothing that makes a property owner’s life simpler than having great tenants, and no greater nightmare than b...
By Priya Murthy • 27 Jul 2014
Insight: Michael Sheargold
Real Estate Results Network chief executive Michael Sheargold explains why a majority of agencies don’t make the most ...
By Priya Murthy • 13 May 2015
Investors warned about rising Perth vacancy rates
Property investors risk playing ‘Russian roulette’ with the Perth property market by taking a cavalier approach to b...
By Priya Murthy • 30 Jul 2014
PM banned, given jail sentence
A residential letting agent was permanently banned from holding a real estate licence, ordered to pay $4,282 restitution...
By Riaz Hasan • 11 Feb 2013
Prospect new managements like a pro
As a business development manager I am asked over and over again – what is the best way to prospect for new management...
By Priya Murthy • 08 Apr 2015
Take control and save money: self-managing your investment property
Nobody cares as much about your investment property as you do, but do you have the time and the resources to manage your...
By Priya Murthy • 22 Jun 2014
The real cost of being a landlord
It's easy for investors to get swept up in the idea of pulling in large rental returns, but it's important to keep an ey...
By Priya Murthy • 10 Sep 2014
'Critical' Sydney headlines affordability slump, latest figures show
Housing affordability in Australia continued to decline in the June 2017 quarter, largely due to the significant negativ...
By Tim Neary • 31 Jul 2017
‘Don’t go private’: landlords who didn’t use PMs and regretted it
Another horror story of a landlord who chose to privately rent their home has emerged this week. Why do landlords chose ...
By Priya Murthy • 20 Jan 2017
‘Everyone matters in real estate’
An Australian real estate body has called on the government to reconsider aspects of recently proposed measures set to i...
By Emma Ryan • 16 Apr 2020
‘It’s all about the rent roll now’
The market’s well and truly shifted – and business owners and agents alike need to be on the front foot to take adva...
By Grace Ormsby • 13 Apr 2022