ARE YOU WEARING BLINKERS? SHOULD YOU BE?
November 12, 2021
BY Joel Davoren, Managing Director, RE/MAX Australia Another Melbourne Cup is behind us, and I hope the punters among you had a win on the day. The event may not something you take an interest in at all, but it struck me there were messages we might take from it. A race like that doesn’t …more »
CHANGES IN THE LOANS LANDSCAPE
October 22, 2021
By Joel Davoren, Managing Director, RE/MAX Australia This month the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) announced that lenders need to increase their serviceability buffer from a minimum 2.5 per cent to at least 3.0 per cent, asking lenders to implement the changes from 1st November. Through concern about the level of debt that borrowers are carrying relative …more »
Joel Davoren: The Buyer Today
May 27, 2021
Key takeaways Buyers need to be clear on their strategy of purchase. Buyers need to be more familiar with ‘no price’ strategies. Buyers have never been better looked after by agents. CoreLogic figures have showed that somewhere between 2800 and more than 3000 homes were taken to auction across the combined capital cities each week …more »
Joel Davoren: When is it wrong to focus on bragging rights?
April 21, 2021
Real estate as an industry is very focused on talking about records, and now more than ever! We do it because we are proud of what we do and what we achieve. We reward our superstars who achieve incredible results, and rightfully so. Historically, we have operated under the premise that telling others about …more »
There is no such thing as ‘the new normal’ anymore
March 4, 2021
COVID-19 HAS FORCED REAL ESTATE AGENTS AND THEIR CLIENTS TO RELY NEW COMMUNICATION TOOLS BUT RE/MAX AUSTRALIA OPERATIONS DIRECTOR JOSH DAVOREN SAYS THAT SHOULDN’T BE AT THE EXPENSE OF GOOD OLD-FASHIONED CUSTOMER SERVICE. COVID-19 has made us consider technology through two lenses. It has helped us recognise and appreciate the positive influence of evolving technology …more »
CHECK YOUR ROADMAP: are you on track?
November 17, 2020
2020 ends as a very different year than it began. It was a year nobody could have planned for – no individual, no business, no government. It has changed every one of us, in some way. What we now need is a roadmap into life – and business – after the clutches of COVID. …more »
The Myth of Urgency: When Time is your Friend
August 26, 2019
In our industry, and particularly in real estate sales, we guide our clients through periods of change. We are taught to act quickly as agents and, over time, our natural instinct kicks in to often tell us to act urgently. It’s what we think we must do, which can cause us to adopt a …more »
What we can learn from Purplebricks
May 31, 2019
– Michael Davoren, Managing Director, RE/MAX Australia & RE/MAX New Zealand After two and a half years of trading in Australia, the UK-based real estate start-up Purplebricks announced on 7th May this year that it was exiting the market. There is a lesson here for the real estate industry generally and not just Australia. It’s …more »