Real Estate Revamp

Our special guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Megan Mander. Megan has leveraged a 20-year career as a commercial real estate agent to build her consultancy, which trains people to be commercial agents, whether they are new to the industry or potentially looking to transition from residential. She has also developed modules to help existing commercial agents in refining thei...

We have two special guests on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators, Jay Jacob-Green from Buxton Port Phillip and Rebecca Cleaver from Woodards South Yarra. These two Rising Stars offer some insights into the BDM role that you won’t get anywhere else and will probably make you rethink everything you thought you knew about the value a business development manager can bring to a real estate...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is our old mate, Bill Nikolouzakis. Bill has started several businesses over the past 12 months, and he shares the sorts of things he tells other small business owners in his role as a growth consultant and keynote speaker. He has some really valuable insights into improving customer service and engagement and using technology to work smar...

Our special guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Anthony Franklin. Anthony explains how a commercial broker can help real estate agencies with their finance needs, particularly accessing the right options from the available lenders. He shares some tips and tricks, explains what lenders look at, and outlines the things that you need to understand about the value in your busines...

We have two special guests on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators, Nat McAsey and Alec Stefanoski. Nat and Alec are a couple of rising stars in real estate, and we’ve invited them to share their insights into getting a start in the industry and achieving success in a relatively short period. Nat tells us why she identified Buxton Port Phillip as the agency she wanted to work for, how she...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Nick Reilly, the founder and managing director of Inovayt. Nick outlines the benefits to agencies of a partnership with a mortgage broker and how having that financial expertise embedded in your process adds value for your employees as well as clients. He shares his thoughts on the state of the market and his insights into buyer, vendor...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Kasey Lawrence, the founder of The Rental Network. Kasey joins Rex and Chanell for an informative and thought-provoking discussion about property management and how to set a PM division up for success. They discuss the vexed issue of high staff turnover as well as how dearly it can cost a business if their rental department is not well...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Sarah Cincotta. Sarah has made a big impact in the real estate industry after identifying that the role of a BDM is not as well understood, appreciated, or valued as it should be. That led her to establish RISE by Sarah Cincotta to train, mentor, and support BDMs to elevate their personal capabilities and, as a result, add measurable va...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Rhett Dallwitz. Rhett’s story is unique and inspirational: buying his first property in his teens, owning Subway franchises in his early 20s, self-funding a real estate portal that was acquired by CarSales.com.au, and now developing Listing Loop. Listing Loop is an end-to-end property transaction platform that matches off-market and pre...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Stasi Adgemis, director and auctioneer at Woodards Manningham. While still relatively young, Stasi has developed some industry-leading practices that have not only helped him achieve a high level of success but have also helped his team members flourish. He shares some of his ideas and beliefs with Rex and Chanell and explains how he se...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Cameron Owens, Co-Founder & COO of Rello. Cameron outlines how Rello helps landlords, vendors, and agents with a timely injection of funds in a much simpler and more convenient way than a bank. He tells Rex and Chanell how the service works, who is using it, and what difference it’s making to results. It’s a simple concept that coul...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Brett Freeman from Noel Jones. Brett shares his thoughts on the business of running a real estate agency and explains how he has managed to retain all but one of his sales staff over 17 years. Rex, Chanell, and Brett discuss the challenges everyone in the business faces and some of the things that have helped him build four successful o...

Our guests on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators are the team from Australia’s leading real estate recruitment company, Titanium Recruitment. Hear about the challenges of recruiting for both property management and sales roles, how COVID lockdowns have changed the landscape, and what makes people in the industry seek out new roles. The two Chelseas, Jeremy, and Luke – with input from Ch...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is the CEO of Harcourts Victoria and Tasmania Tony Morrison. Tony shares his thoughts on culture, leadership, and people management as he outlines what he looks for when an agency wants to join the Harcourts network. He gives Rex and Chanell an insight into how he built the Harcourts brand in Tasmania and how he’s now growing the network a...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Kevin Chokshi, director and auctioneer at Ray White Cheltenham. Kevin shares his unique story that’s spanned a stint in the special forces in the Indian military, studying IT in Geelong and Ballarat, and being offered a job in real estate while working the night shift at a petrol station! Hear how Kevin taught himself to be an auctionee...

Our guest on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators is Chris Christofi. Chris’s journey in real estate investment started in his teens, before taking a massive detour when he lost everything and had to move back in with his parents. But he knew what he wanted and what he could do, and set about establishing his own business, Reventon, that’s taken real estate investment to another level. Ch...

Our guests on this week’s edition of Real Estate Renovators are Aaron Hill and Marin Durkovic. After being friends for 10 years, Aaron and Marin decided to strike out on their own and go into business together, and a couple of years ago they took over the Ray White office in Sunbury. They recently sold Oz and Omar’s winning house on The Block for an incredible record price, and then also sold anot...

On this week's episode of Real Estate Renovators - the final one of Season 2 - we bring you Part 2 of Bill's chat with former realestate.com.au CEO Simon Baker. His message is the same as in Part 1: agents must embrace technology ... but he goes further with some thoughts on how technology will allow new players to enter both the sales and property management spaces. To existing agencies, Simon sa...

Our guest on this week's edition of Real Estate Renovators is Manos Findikakis. Manos is the man behind the Eview Group, Australia's first multi-brand real estate network. Hear how the concept of the network of independent agents came to be, how it's evolved, and how it works for agents. The team also gets Manos's thoughts on a range of broader real estate industry topics, such as what the landsca...

Our guest on this week's edition of Real Estate Renovators is Mike Green. Mike started in the real estate business at 19 and has since built Harcourts International into one of Australia's most successful and admired companies. A couple of years ago he stepped back from the Managing Director role he'd fulfilled for 20 years and now works alongside the CEO and Executive Team as Executive Director o...

Our guest on this week's edition of Real Estate Renovators is Buyer's Advocate Emily Wallace. Emily left her corporate job to strike out on her own as a buyer's advocate because she saw a gap in the market. It turned out to be a pretty good decision, as she's become very successful and highly sought after. Unlike some buyer's advocates, she only takes on a maximum of 10 clients at a time and she o...

Our special guest on this week's episode of Real Estate Renovators is the CEO of PropTech Group, Joe Hanna. There are very few people (if any) with a better understanding of how technology can help real estate businesses grow and thrive. Joe explains how powerful your CRM can be - and should be - both in terms of building your business and making everyone's job easier. As he tells RER's Rex Afrasi...

The very special guest on this week's episode of Real Estate Renovators is Andrew Coronis, Managing Director of Coronis Group. Andrew enjoys the challenge of innovating and has developed a unique and extremely successful franchise model for people who want to run a real estate business. He outlines how agents are evolving, and how much things have changed since he joined his father's small real es...

We're delighted to have the Growth Guru, Pete Aquilina, as our special guest on this week's episode of Real Estate Renovators. Pete was part of the RER team through Season 1, sharing his perspective on how to grow a real estate business. There's no one in Australia with more experience and understanding of how to make property management a profitable part of a business. Pete tells Rex Afrasiabi ho...

The very special guest on this week's episode of Real Estate Renovators is Jakub Wolanski. Jakub wrote the bestseller Culture Is King to help companies not only build but maintain the best culture they can. He tells RER's Chanell McAsey that culture has to be top down, and there can't be a different set of rules for the directors and managers. It's also important that you know how to get real buy-...