A four bedroom tropical getaway at 17 Warril Drive, Kuranda has just gone on the market through Ray White Cairns Beaches. The luxury rainforest estate is owned by Major Les Hiddins, also known as The Bush Tucker Man, and wife Sandy Hiddins. Over …
Jason Hellyer of Ray White Victoria said there were seven council shires in Melbourne’s outer fringe which grew by 7.1 per cent when compared to the same period in 2018. At the same time the average median property value across …
ALL proceeds from the sale of 10 Rachel Drive, Cranbourne North will be donated to charity at the behest of the property’s late owner. The donation has prompted the selling office, Ray White Cranbourne, to match the owner’s generosity by giving 10 …
IT was fitting that the day after the Women’s T20 World Cup began in Australia, reserve prices were being hit for six, as the nation’s biggest auction house played host to 306 scheduled auctions across the country. Ray White Group …
How does your usual day look? Lots of report writing and plenty of reading. Working with the individual offices to determine what they need in a research report – we brainstorm new ideas and share data. Then I spend my …
How does your usual day look? A typical day for me starts at 6am, reading the paper and going through my emails at breakfast. I then get ready and head straight to work for 7am. I use the morning to …
RAY White Victoria corporate auctioneer Jeremy Tyrrell is optimistic about 2020 and he’s expecting positive growth for the property market. After the highs and lows of 2019 – which saw buyers, sellers and real estate agents alike on a rollercoaster …
Feeling unable to personalise your rental home can be frustrating and make it seem like you’re still living in someone else’s house. These three tips will help you add your own flare without breaching your landlord’s contract. The wonders of …
How does your usual day look? On a normal day, I like to try and get to the office in the morning to get any admin work done and focus on calls to my pipeline, prospective tenants or buyers as …
We recently held our annual Chairman’s Elite and Alan White Elite conferences in Bali. It was the first time we celebrated together in an overseas location. It was a magical setting to recognise those members who achieved results across the …
PREPARING TO VACATE YOUR RENTAL PROPERTY Moving out of your rental property involves more than just packing up your things and returning the keys. In order to pass your final inspection and complete the rental process properly, there are certain tasks you will need to take care of. Below is … Read more
The most important task we can do for a landlord is to find the “right” tenant, in the shortest timeframe, for the highest possible rent. To achieve this there are three key elements that we must get right – price, promotion and presentation. Whether your property is being marketed for … Read more
This year Ray White has introduced the NPS system across all offices. NPS stands for Net Promoter Score. Clients who have sold their properties through Ray White are contacted to give a rating between 1 and 10 as to whether they would “Given the same situation, use the same agent … Read more
Renting your property out privately sounds like a reasonable idea. You can save on the fees and it seems pretty easy. Almost everyone knows someone who does it themselves successfully, you may even do it yourself. Sounds great until something goes disastrously WRONG as it did for a client I … Read more
The median price for the City of Belmont in the last quarter of 2012 was $485,000 with 237 properties selling compared with $440,000 in the same quarter of 2011 with 215 properties selling. This represents a median gain of 10.22% year on year (Source: REIWA). The gains are attributable primarily … Read more
If you don’t know any agents in your area then sometimes the temptation is to find an easy way to compare agents when looking to sell. There are numerous and growing numbers of sites offering to find an agent for you or have the best 3 or so local agents … Read more
It’s a common belief among some owners that all agents are pretty much the same. Well I can tell you that this story proves very much otherwise. Sometimes it’s only when the statistics become publicly available that we discover the sometimes startling differences in sale prices for similar properties. When … Read more
If you ever wondered whether you should auction your property then click on the link to the video above for an insight into how we do auctions and whether it would be appropriate for you.
From time to time as an agent I am confronted with the idea of Feng Shui. Sometimes a house does not appeal to some because it apparently has bad Feng Shui. Drives me nuts! Other times it apparently has great Feng Shui . I have even had a buyer employ … Read more
Before you purchase a property feel free to take advantage of Andrew Huggins’ extensive knowledge of property particularly in the City of Belmont area. Andrew can smell a bargain and equally can smell a lemon. For a completely independent opinion of the merits of a property you are thinking … Read more