Economic updates

This strong demand resulted in excellent competition at auctions with vendors invariably delighted that they had agreed to a formal marketing campaign for their property.

An ASX long term investment report has revealed that property was the best performing asset class in Australia for the entire decade prior to 2016 (returning 8 per cent per year on average).

Until recent years, Perth has been a city firmly in the grip of a mining boom.

History shows that, whilst never being as good as a November or March, it is one of the genuine robust months in our calendar.

The joy of Spring! In real estate terms that joy is manifested in better sales.

The last month of winter provided a slightly better level of results than we had been anticipating - always difficult to create sales volumes when listings are tight!

July was the first month in many years in which we have witnessed reduced real estate sales activity right across Australia and New Zealand.

Refinancing your home loan isn’t as daunting as it sounds.

First, Ray White has been recognised in EY’s Top 50 Global Family Business Index for 2016.

We saw so much discussion around the future ownership and leadership structures of other agency groups - speculation on potential takeovers, mergers and alliances dominated industry media - all seeking to challenge our market leading position

The sale to a local purchaser of four harbourside properties in Vaucluse by three different owners was indeed a remarkable event.

At $3.7billion, it’s hard not to be satisfied! Slightly higher than March 2015. The lack of stock in NSW hampered their results even though offices such as Double Bay produced its best ever result of $128million.