Tiffany, the nine-year-old Shih Tzu x Cavalier, notched up another spotlight performance on 5th October when she featured on Weekend Sunrise.
Tiffany lives in Queensland, Australia and works in real estate alongside RE/MAX United Vision agent Tracey Ashley who leads ‘The Pink Team’ selling residential property in the Brisbane suburbs of Carina, Carina Heights and Coorparoo.
Weekend Sunrise, a top rating Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network and currently hosted by Monique Wright and Basil Zempilas, approached Tracey after a producer had seen her and Tiffany featured in a Sydney film festival.
Introducing Tracey as an agent who ‘stands out from the crowd’, the presenters asked her how Tiffany brought puppy power to real estate sales.
Tracey told viewers that properties she and Tiffany has clearly marketed as pet-friendly attract 50 per cent more views online.
“With Tiffany involved, we get 50 per cent more internet inspections. She draws more buyers to the property, and we’ve seen one to two per cent price increase over properties that don’t feature her.
“I’m helping the pet-owning buyer through the way I market, and by doing so it seems that I am getting the seller a better price and a sale in a shorter time-on-market.
“Using Tiffany in photos and video keeps buyers more engaged in the property, which is what sellers like to hear. Buyers definitely are more focused on the photos, which works especially well for vacant homes on the market,” Tracey said.
RE/MAX United Vision broker owner Gaby McEwan shared screen shots on Facebook, posting “Sales go through the WOOF! So proud of these two for being on national telly – and on more than a few occasions too! Tracey & Tiff have also been in House Hunters International & have appeared in a book.”
Tracey and Tiffany were invited special guests at the Top Dog Film Festival in July this year at the Schonell Theatre in Brisbane. The film, ‘Odd Jobs for Dogs’, produced this year, stars Tiffany.
She became the darling of American television when she appeared in an episode of House Hunters International, filmed in Brisbane’s western suburbs mid-February last year.
House Hunters International wasn’t Tiffany’s first brush with television fame. She was interviewed by Sonia Kruger and David Campbell on Channel Nine’s Today Extra in 2016.
Adding to Tiffany’s significant media coverage, there is an entire chapter on her in Dogs with Jobs, a book by Sydney author Laura Greaves, published by Penguin in November in 1917 and available from all major bookstores and through Amazon. Laura Greaves’ Amazing Dogs with Amazing Jobs, published this year, also features Tiffany. She’s seen in A Dog’s Life magazine, a publication for dog lovers in Australia and New Zealand, and has appeared as ‘Toto’ in a stage production of The Wizard of Oz.
Tracey says she hadn’t realised the difficulties pet owners could face until she was looking for a home herself around six years ago.
“Even given my real estate connections, I was struggling to find a rental. Then, when I began looking to buy, I realised there were too few apartments and townhouse complexes that were pet-friendly, and particularly dog-friendly.
“I saw a real need to try and make the situation less stressful for customers who were sharing my experience.”
Tracey not only found a new home, but four-legged Tiffany became Tracey’s sidekick in sales.
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Tracey Ashley, RE/MAX United Vision – M.+61 403 304 217, E. tracey.ashley@remax.com.au
Lyn Cox, Public Relations – M. +61 418 793 096, E. lcox@remax.com.au
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