Brisbane Apartment

A new service has just launched, to allow property owners to sell without an agent.  Some real estate agents are so hopeless, and don't ...

If you engage a real estate agent to look after your property rental, the costs can be rather high compared with the service actually receiv...

When reading a recent story in The Times (from London) titled " How to avoid house-sale hell ", about a lady who went through a se...

For landlords who do not like real estate agents, a new service -- Rent My Estate -- allows landlords to list on real-estate.com.au.  It pr...

I heard another story about real estate agents ripping off a client.  It is worth considering this story, especially if you are thinking of ...

The Courier Mail recently had a story regarding a real estate rort that is said to be ruining the lives of thousands.  An extract: ...

It is interesting to look at Google Trends -- how many searches are conducted on Google for various topics.  Google Trends shows that there ...

An interesting new website is HouseNet -- a social media site for property people.  The cost ranges from nothing to $79 a month, depending ...

An article in a Fairfax publication about agents editing and manipulating photographs in real estate listings.  See Article .  So take care ...

Here is an interesting website, that aims to cut out the middleman (e.g. real estate agents):  See Resiprofile .  I have many examples of re...

An interesting article in the AFR on 9 August (page 45) about StayMint  (or Mint?) real estate letting agent, and how (it is alleged) they w...

When looking for a property to buy or rent, it is worth looking at both Domain and REA .  Note that for REA, advertisements can only be pla...

A new blog has recently been launched by Colliers Real Estate dealing with project marketing.  That is, marketing a real estate project, suc...

I am not going to make any major predictions for the Brisbane apartment market for 2012.  It is too uncertain what will happen next. It is...

I have recently come across off-the-plan developments in Brisbane where the agent is being paid a flat 7% or 8% commission.  These agents ar...

What a surprise.  A real estate agent in Melbourne has been found to have been engaged in illegal misleading practices involving negotiation...

"... Countering that has been the deteriorating level of urgency in buyers as plunging confidence in Australia's economic future bi...

Have a look at this article . It provides further evidence that many real estate agents provide poor service, do a bad job and are lazy. T...

OntheHouse , which gives away data, listed on the ASX recently by its lawyer founder, and dropped 9% on the first day . I think it would be...