Category: NEWS

YPIRE iPad App

YPIRE.com (Young Professionals in Real Estate) have released an iPad app for agents. The YPIRE OFI Assistant gives agents the ability to simply collect information from an open home and compose a vendor report for their records and even email it directly to the owner. Check it out on the ypire.com site: www.ypire.com/ipad-app/

Allhomes.com.au web scraping raises concern with agents, buy why?

Allhomes.com.au has sparked debate among the industry by admiting to “scraping” and “re-publishing” listings from other portals. Some real estate agents claim that All Homes has lifted every one of their listings and uploaded them on to its own site without permission. But my question is, why do agents care? If you list a property […]

Number of Australian Listings soar in March

Almost 315,000 listings with an address were captured from realestate.com.au and domain.com.au last month blasting through last month’s high of just over 300,000. These numbers are up 33.3% from this time last year. Queensland lead the pack in March with 86,000 listings, up 8% from last month, with the other states still showing growth after […]