REB Podcast Network

Real Estate Exposed is your source for the latest real estate commentary. In a follow-up series to the wildly popular  What's Making Headlines , hosts Phil Tarrant and Tom Panos discuss the hard-hitting topics relevant to real estate that others might shy away from. Positive news goes a long way: The duo discuss why it's a good news week, forecast a summer-spring selling season, look at the recent...

One of the most hotly-anticipated spring selling seasons ever has now arrived – but it's looking a lot different than anyone could have expected! Two months into Greater Sydney's lockdown, Laine Poirier and Grace Ormsby provide an update on all things REB. The pair unveil a brand-new and bolstered content team, discuss current property market trends, dive into the difficulties of lockdown, and loo...

Mandy Wurth reveals to Grace Ormsby and Sadhana Smiles what it's really like running a business from a different state. The chief executive at regional NSW's River Realty talks about working remotely prior to the pandemic, acknowledges the difficulties that come with change, highlights the importance of culture and how to keep it through a lockdown, challenges industry thinking around mental healt...

Real Estate Exposed is your source for the latest real estate commentary. In a follow-up series to the wildly popular What's Making Headlines, hosts Phil Tarrant and Tom Panos discuss the hard-hitting topics relevant to real estate that others might shy away from. With several states still in lockdown, the duo discuss COVID-19's true disruption of Aussie property markets, and what it means for the...

Kevin Turner reflects on more than three decades in the real estate space with Grace Ormsby. A director and co-owner of Realty Media Group, and a former high-performance agent himself, Kevin highlights the biggest changes he has seen play out in real estate and the transition from transactional to relationship-based selling. Kevin also raises the issue of marketing costs, acknowledges the challeng...

Sally Ness reveals why South Australian agents are adapting their ways of working due to COVID-19 despite not being in lockdown themselves to Grace Ormsby and Sadhana Smiles. The principal of Raine & Horne Strathalbyn/Meadows discusses the rising popularity of transactions taking place "subject to sale", outlines how her business models flexible work, shares the benefits of a tight-knit team, and...

Real Estate Exposed is your source for the latest real estate commentary. In a follow-up series to the wildly popular What's Making Headlines, hosts Phil Tarrant and Tom Panos discuss the hard-hitting topics relevant to real estate that others might shy away from. The pair discuss losing weight in lockdown, consider workplace-mandated vaccines, take a look at the likelihood of a "spring blitz", re...

Sam Rigopoulos highlights how he and his team have pivoted and adapted through consecutive Melbourne lockdowns. The director with Jellis Craig Northcote, and the 16th-ranked agent in REB's Top 100 Agents for 2021, shares why COVID-19 hasn't been all bad, iterates the value that buyer's advocacy brings his business, highlights the positivity that can come from transacting off-market, and urges ever...

Natasha Burgess highlights the myriad of benefits that can come from entering awards programs to Grace Ormsby and Sadhana Smiles. The sales and marketing strategist for event production at Momentum Connect, Natasha knows the ins and outs of industry awards, and talks through just how much value the application process — and nominating other deserving individuals — can provide people and businesses...

Real Estate Exposed is your source for the latest real estate commentary. In a follow-up series to the wildly popular What's Making Headlines, hosts Phil Tarrant and Tom Panos discuss the hard-hitting topics relevant to real estate that others might shy away from. With Canberra going into lockdown for the first time in over 12 months, the pair discuss the implications of restrictions on the real e...

Andrew Lutze offers his perspective on balancing real estate with real life in a chat with Grace Ormsby — and shows it can still be done in lockdown. The Cunninghams director and the 13th-ranked agent in Australia for 2021 highlights the pitfalls of thinking everything is important, offers up some tips for sorting through daily priorities, shares why leaders should treat people the way they want t...

Angela Murphy offers her heart-warming outlook on life — and real estate — to Grace Ormsby and Sadhana Smiles. The top-performing sales consultant and agent, who operates out of Elders Real Estate's Donnybrook office, details her decision to migrate to Australia with her family from South Africa. She also reflects on what she got out of her first local job, reveals her personal reasons for getting...

Podium's regional sales director, Sean Smit, chats with Momentum Media's Phil Tarrant for the latest episode of REB's Proptech Pulse. Fresh off Podium's official Australian launch, Sean reflects on the increasing popularity of mobile communications, and reveals how the company ultimately realised its potential for helping local businesses. With 98 per cent of text messages opened and read within t...

Real Estate Exposed is your source for the latest real estate commentary. In a follow-up series to the wildly popular What's Making Headlines, hosts Phil Tarrant and Tom Panos discuss the hard-hitting topics relevant to real estate that others might shy away from. With the Sydney lockdown continuing, the pair discuss rising tensions as restrictions go "bonkers" and foreshadow what will happen as t...

Tim Heavyside explains to Grace Ormsby how he kept up his sales momentum even through Melbourne's extended lockdowns. The Fletchers Real Estate director and agent, who ranked 21st in REB's Top 100 Agents 2021, chats about maintaining office morale, reveals how agents can still "find a way" through resilience, breaks down the key differences between calling auctions in person and online, and highli...

Cassandra Lantry chats all about defending against disruption in a property management business to Grace Ormsby and Sadhana Smiles. The general manager of Leah Jay, Cassandra shares how her career to date has led her to her current role, reveals her motivations behind attaining a master's degree, talks taking on board lessons from Amazon, and shares what she personally gained by employing a busine...

Real Estate Exposed is your source for the latest real estate commentary. In a follow-up series to the wildly popular What's Making Headlines, hosts Phil Tarrant and Tom Panos discuss the hard-hitting topics that are relevant to real estate that others might shy away from. The pair provide their predictions as to whether auctions will remain popular post-lockdown, touch on the glitz and glamour of...

Chris Hanley speaks out about the importance of mental health management in business to Grace Ormsby. The CEO of First National Byron Bay and the chairperson of RISE shares why the most important thing a leader can do is listen, explains how a leader's duty of care can go a long way in a business, and highlights how technology can now offer agents and property managers an innovative, new way to ta...

Roylene Reilly shares her experiences as a female agent rising through the ranks with Grace Ormsby and Sadhana Smiles. Now the NSW state manager at Elders Real Estate, Roylene reveals her reasons for moving into real estate after a first career in the welfare space, shares some of her trusted methods to secure sales in the face of adversity, and reflects on having her best year ever as a real esta...

Openn Negotiation's Peter Gibbons chats with Momentum Media's Phil Tarrant for the second-ever episode of REB's Proptech Pulse. Fresh from listing on the Australian Stock Exchange, the managing director reflects on creating a fair and transparent sales method to empower buyers and sellers, and how this "simple problem-solving" ultimately became the company's key to success. He also reveals the pro...

Real Estate Exposed is your source for the latest real estate commentary. In a follow-up series to the wildly popular What's Making Headlines, hosts Phil Tarrant and Tom Panos discuss the hard-hitting topics that are relevant to real estate that others might shy away from.  In this episode, the 'comedic duo' ponder whether Gladys Berejiklian has stuffed up with the current lockdown, discuss whethe...

This special episode of Secrets of the Top 100 Agents sees REB's Grace Ormsby moderate an informative and educational discussion on maximising rent roll fees. Join Thom Richards, co-founder of Managed App; Sid Elias, principal director at LJ Hooker Western Sydney Group; and Paula Matlock, property management director at Marshall White, as they discuss the importance of articulating value to potent...

Cathy Baker reveals how she's making the most of lockdown to Grace Ormsby and Sadhana Smiles. The principal of Belle Property Central Coast highlights the multitude of ways that agencies can maintain morale and culture through COVID-19 uncertainty, outlines why she's implemented five-year lifestyle plans with her clients, and warns that the transactional way of thinking is in grave danger of becom...

From lockdown, Laura McKay sits down with Grace Ormsby to reflect on a massive 18 months.   The number one ranked agent in REB's Top 50 Women in Real Estate 2021, group general manager at Highland Property Agents, and an auctioneer, Laura talks about balancing all aspects of her wide-reaching role, explains her attitude to time spent at work, shares how she and her wider team are dealing with the...

Eliza Owen reveals what life's like as a real estate research analyst to Grace Ormsby and Sadhana Smiles. The Australian head of research at CoreLogic explains how economics differs from business and commerce, chats through the impact of COVID-19 on her own work, highlights how she approaches dealing with the media, and divulges her future career goals and aspirations. In this episode, you will he...