Brisbane, Here is Your Property Report Card!
It’s that time of year. Report cards are due and we are thinking about goals for next year. In order to do that it’s essential to look at the year that was and make astute plans based on data. Our friends at Herron Todd White are masters at prediction and excellent in data analysis. Here…
A Day in the Life of Jack Sifonios
What is your role with Clark Real Estate? Was this always your position? I am currently taking on the role of Property Manager. I started off with just routine inspections and then went on to the Leasing role. I have been with Clark for almost 2 years now. What is your favourite part of what…
Simple & Inexpensive Tips For Presenting Your House For Sale
Getting your house ready for sale doesn’t have to be the most expensive exercise of your life. But it will require a lot of hard work. Like, getting dirty, tired and grumpy kind of hard work. But it’s worth it. And very effective. Here are FIVE inexpensive but fairly labour intensive tips that will make…
An Open Letter to the Class of 2017
As I write this blog, thousands of school leavers in Queensland have descended on various tourist destinations in Australia and overseas. Next week, other States in Australia will join you in what has become known and accepted as the longest party in history, “Schoolies”. Twelve or thirteen years of schooling culminates in relief, exhaustion and…
THE COST OF INTERNET ADS SKYROCKET by Peter O’Malley
Given interest rates are low and employment is high, buyers are facing far better buying conditions now than at the height of the boom. In the stock market – when prices recede and the case for buying improves, buyers rush in. Not so with property though. Generally speaking, buyers seem to feel more confident about…
Betting On The House
It’s Melbourne Cup. The day that “stops a nation” because of a horse race. The day that turns us all into experts (whether it be on fashion or fillies) and, well let’s face it, most of us losers. I was born in the 1970’s. I was told not to waste my money, to put it…
Partners in Time. A Family That Has Your Back.
So another Season of The Block has ended. Thank God, say a lot of you. But probably no one louder than the couples who have been the victims (sorry contestants) this year. Okay, it’s hard to call some of them victims. Pocketing $547,000 tax free moolah for twelve weeks work is pretty darn good. Not…
Why Do Employees Come To Work? Another Insightful Essay by Ted Scott
The title of this essay provides a useful question for leaders to ask. Knowing what employees want out of work encourages leaders to either help employees be fulfilled or filter out those employees whose expectations are unrealistic or are counter to the ambitions of the organisation. You can read more of Ted Scott here Let…
“Rental Industry Needs to Strike a Balance” by Annette Lattanzi
There has been a lot of press this week about changes to Victorian Rental Tenancy legislation which will have, in all likelihood, a flow on affect in Queensland. We will discuss this more in next week’s blog. This week Annette Lattanzi explains the ins and out around the Housing Legislation (Building Better Futures) Amendment Bill…
Q&A With John Frame, Finance Consultant Regarding “Troubled Apartment Market”
There has been a lot of discussion in recent news cycles about apartment buying in Brisbane and Perth. Several of the banks have “blacklisted” some suburbs in Brisbane. Purchases of apartments in these areas will be subjected to much more strict lending requirements and construction companies are collapsing under financial pressure. We sat down with…