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by Paul Gaffney, The MBA Partnership
Maximising your sale price
When the time comes to sell your management rights business, there are a number of things you can do to help maximise your sale price and ensure a smooth sales process. Review your letting authorities [...]
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by Graham Vercoe, Resort News Reporter
Councils struggling against the odds
Quasi-hotels should be banned under reforms to the regulation of short-term holiday letting in NSW, demands the Accommodation Association of Australia, as the NSW government considers changes to the model for [...]
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by Rosie Clarke
What’s the big idea behind joining a recognised brand?
Whether you’re a lone wolf or like having a wolf pack, there’s always something to be said for power in numbers. In the accommodation sector, branding of some sort is close to [...]
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by Mandy Clarke, AMG Reporter
Shift luxury into a higher gear
Today’s fussy guests want to experience the ride of a lifetime. Metaphorically, they want a Mercedes-Benz or a Rolls Royce not a quirky VW Beetle or a cute Mini. Literally-speaking: pristine [...]
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by Graham Vercoe, Resort News Reporter
The ultimate in personal guest hosting (PART TWO)
Queensland’s B&B and Farmstay Committee chairwoman Sue Panuccio, who has run Mt Cotton Guest House with her partner Trevor Penson for 11 years, said B&B owners must like meeting people and be comfortable [...]
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by Rosie Clarke
Do you scare easy? Check your cameras
Nobody wants their property morphing into the set of a horror film, least of all guests looking for a relaxing getaway. Hotel room invasions are a very real threat and without a security system in [...]
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by Mark Neale, Management Rights Sales
Finding tenants
As most of you reading this article are well aware it is getting harder to find tenants in Brisbane. Not only in the CBD though, vacancy rates have been climbing over the last few years in some outer [...]
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by Greg Jorgensen,
The inner city market
It’s fair to say that if I had 10 off the plans with a net profit of $250k or better and no real estate to buy that I could sell all ten within a week or two! Demand for off the plans remains strong [...]
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by Mark English, MR Sales
Working with your partner… the good, the bad and the ugly (mostly good)
My story starts on a cold, wet Melbourne night. While at a friend’s 21st birthday party, I was lucky enough to meet my now wife (Kerry) for the very first time... ... and here we are, some 30 [...]
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