With customer demands and service expectations stronger than they have ever been before, have we lost the ability to say ...
By Riaz Hasan • 04 Feb 2014
Leasing in tough times
When was the last time you took stock of what your leasing systems are like? ...
By Priya Murthy • 26 Feb 2015
Leasing the dream
Some agencies cannot see the value in a dedicated leasing consultant. In this global property market, we not only utilis...
By Priya Murthy • 15 Dec 2014
Legal loophole threatens NSW landlords’ ability to dispute unruly tenants
A recent legal loophole that could leave landlords and tenants without the power of disputes should be rectified sooner ...
By Tim Neary • 06 Aug 2017
Lessons from an ‘unstable’ rent roll
Nothing is worse than an unstable rent roll, according to Anthony Toop. But as Toop&Toop has proven, there are ways ...
By Riaz Hasan • 07 Jan 2013
Letting agent fined more than $750,000
A Queensland letting agent who breached the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act over 1,100 times has been fined and or...
By Riaz Hasan • 24 Mar 2014
Life ban and $20,000 fine for PM thief
A property manager has been banned permanently from working in the industry after she illegally withdrew $30,000 from he...
By Priya Murthy • 15 Mar 2015
Lifestyle renting on the rise
For a long time it was thought that people rent because they can’t afford to buy. That’s not necessarily the case if...
By Priya Murthy • 14 Jun 2016
Limit Airbnb to certain areas to balance the market, says expert
The Airbnb phenomenon is putting pressure on the rental market and exacerbating the country’s housing affordability is...
By Tim Neary • 12 Oct 2018
Listing presentation tips
There is a lot of work that goes into a listing presentation for a possible new management of a property. ...
By Priya Murthy • 01 Mar 2016
Listings decline in January an anomaly, new data suggests
National residential listings declined marginally in January 2019, led by drops in both Sydney and Melbourne, new data h...
By Tim Neary • 05 Feb 2019
Listings track: Where’s up, where’s down
PMs and BDMs like to keep track of the market, and knowing where listings are up and down is a key way of doing it. The...
By Tim Neary • 21 Jun 2018
Living appeal on the up in south-west Melbourne, regional Victoria
Accelerating competition in Melbourne’s south-west is pushing up the area’s living appeal and vastly improving its...
By Tim Neary • 17 Sep 2018
LJ Hooker makes crucial appointment, looks to national growth
LJ Hooker has bolstered its business development team with the appointment of an industry household name to head nationa...
By Priya Murthy • 29 Mar 2017
Loan Comparison Calculator
A powerful string in any investor's bow, the loan comparison calculator allows two different loans to be directly contra...
By Priya Murthy • 08 Nov 2011
Loan Repayments Calculator
This provides an estimate of your mortgage repayments by using the length of the loan term, interest rate and LVR. ...
By Riaz Hasan • 31 Oct 2011
Location, location still brings home the bacon
With technology developments streamlining the property management process and making it easier to build a rent roll outs...
By Priya Murthy • 05 Nov 2014
London cladding prompts fire safety awareness for Australian unit owners
With discussions of the London Grenfell Tower fire turning to the apartment complex’s cladding as the reason why the f...
By Sasha Karen • 22 Jun 2017
Long-term water damage one of the biggest rental property risks
Unidentified water damage has emerged as one of the biggest risks to a landlord’s rental property, according to new re...
By Tim Neary • 14 Nov 2018
Look after tenants, not just owners: CEO
Property managers need to make more of an effort to look after their tenants, not just their homeowners, according to di...
By Riaz Hasan • 19 Aug 2013