3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (719+ words) Updated independent modelling commissioned by four of Australia's peak property and construction bodies estimates the Federal Government's housing tax package could reduce new dwelling starts by about 10,700 over four years, while pushing rents higher and cutting construction employment. Master Builders…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (570+ words) Australia’s residential property market shed $34.1 billion in value over the June quarter, with falling prices in NSW and Victoria outweighing gains elsewhere even as another 54,400 dwellings were added to the national housing stock. Australia's residential property stock fell $34.1 billion in…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1234+ words) After 11 straight years as Australia's top-ranked agent, Alexander Phillips explains why he brought his entire Eastern Suburbs team into a new network built around AI buyer-matching technology. For more than two decades, Alexander Phillips has built one of the country’s…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (382+ words) Harcourts Tasmania has promoted from within its own network, naming Tayla Long as the state's new business operations manager after she built her career at Harcourts Launceston. Tayla Long has been promoted to Business Operations Manager for Harcourts Tasmania, stepping…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (484+ words) The new group merges Harcourts' Melton and Werribee businesses under one banner, with ambitions to expand to seven offices across the western corridor. Robert Krnjeta has merged Harcourts' Melton and Werribee offices into Harcourts TWG – The Western Group, with plans…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (682+ words) Ten of 12 tracked economists expect the RBA to hold, but market pricing implies a 54 per cent chance of a rise, leaving borrowers with a genuinely uncertain outcome ahead of spring. The Reserve Bank of Australia is more likely than not…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1492+ words) Tina Ashton says productivity, costs, technology and rent roll acquisitions can lift a business's performance even when transaction volumes and prices stay flat. But for Harcourts Chief Growth Officer, Tina Ashton, the danger is that business owners can become so…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (601+ words) Apartment construction is driving Queensland’s record run, with the state accounting for almost half of Australia’s quarterly growth in new home building. Queensland's residential construction spending has hit a 52-year record of $20.3 billion, driven by a surge in apartment building…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (372+ words) The appointment creates a new executive role for the network, capping a 17-year career that began on reception. Ray White Victoria and Tasmania has created a new Chief Operating Officer role and appointed Valentina Parra, who's been with the group…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1046+ words) New laws requiring reserve prices to be published seven days out leave open how agents should handle a vendor changing their price or rejecting an offer late in the campaign. Victorian agents must publish a vendor's reserve price at least…...