In what seems like remarkable timing, sitting in my email this morning was an invitation to partake in the Annual Customer Satisfaction Survey for realestate.com.au. Now is the time to let REA know what you think of them, the good and the bad. The email includes a comment “The survey questionnaire can be completed by personnel who have contact with realestate.com.au” which seems to infer that you can get anybody in your office to also submit on your survey link.
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10
Jun
2011
Realestate.com.au Backs Down From The Fight!
Realestate.com.au has always promoted itself as a portal for real estate agents but recently we have seen a surge in real estate agents using technology to operate from a digital storefront and list their properties on the portal. At first many of these websites were not run by real estate agents but REA quickly enforced this rule.
Read moreLast night the 2011 REIA National Awards for Excellence was held at the Marriott Resort on the Gold Coast and First National Real Estate Nerang was awarded the 2011 REIA Australian Medium Residential Agency of the Year . The National Awards for Excellence are the pinnacle awards in our industry and are a celebration honouring Australia’s most outstanding performers in the real estate profession. This is the second year in a row that Nerang First National has been been accorded the real estate industry’s highest accolade.
Read moreEffective Real Estate Agent Interview Questions In today’s market, selecting the right real estate agent to sell your house has never been more important. If you hire a bad real estate agent it can delay the sale of your home for months. One of the best methods to identify the right agent to sell your property is through an interview. You need to conduct an interview with an agent to learn about their background, to see what they know about the local area and to find out if they are a good fit with you, your property and your lifestyle.
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26
Feb
2011
Selling Your Home by Auction in Queensland
If your thinking of selling your property one of the methods of sale you should consider is selling by Auction. Selling property by auction has been around for over 150 years in Australia and it is a tried and true method however the auction process does not suit all properties and all owners. At First National Nerang we are not an “auction at all costs” real estate agent who pushes auction as the preferred method of sale. Some agents try and auction every listing they get simply to avoid discussing market value with a seller till the actual day of the auction.
Read moreEvery year the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) hold their Awards of Excellence which celebrate the best of the best in the real estate industry across the state. The awards cover all members of the REIQ across all real estate groups, franchise groups and independents.
Read moreEach and every year we see new online solutions or technology that enter our industry, many are raised and discussed here at length on this blog. There are 5 levels of adoption in most innovations and the challenge of many of these solutions is to break through the Innovator and Early Adopter levels and start being adopted by the Early Majority and Late Majority. The last level, The Laggards will only be taken kicking and screaming when everybody else has already adopted the innovation. With online solutions its possible for an innovation to rapidly move through each level far quicker than the offline world would allow.
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25
Nov
2010
Dirty Tricks by the Harcourts Real Estate Group?
Most real estate agencies are not that proactive when it comes to the Internet.
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