The 2023 PRET Australia Management Rights Forum

By Mandy Clarke, Editor

SunPAC, Brisbane southside’s premier performing arts and cultural centre was a wonderful venue to hold this important industry event, where over 200 onsite managers, MLR professionals and other attendees were welcomed, all keen to share information and learn ways to manage the current challenges faced by the industry.

The day’s agenda was packed with valuable sessions, the morning included five English speakers with six industry experts and the afternoon offered seven Mandarin sessions with 15 guest speakers.

The first speaker of the morning was Lauren Jones from the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management, who gave an overview of the industry and the service offered by the BCCM.

Then, Trevor Rawnsley, CEO of ARAMA led a discussion about the attack on term that the management rights industry is battling right now and talked about the current law reforms.

Next up was John Mahoney from Mahoneys Lawyers who spoke about the attempts from some body corporate committees to terminate agreements.

Then, Kelley Rigby from Letts Rebuild gave some great tips on growing and protecting the onsite managers’ letting business.

The final morning session was from Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal, who talked about dealing with challenges around the ‘Top Up’ process.

The 2023 PRET Australia Management Rights Forum and 2023 PRET Australia Awards Night Founder and Organiser Paul Shih addressed the audience and said: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the sponsors for the 2023 PRET Australia Awards Night who are here with us today.

“This year’s Awards Night for Real Estate Agents and Onsite Managers will take place at the Royal International Convention Centre on Saturday November 25, from 5pm to 10pm.

“The Awards Night will recognise the outstanding achievements of real estate sales agents, property managers and onsite managers, as well as raise funds for worthy charities such as The Lord Mayor’s Charitable Trust, Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital Foundation, Mater Foundation and more.

“Can you believe that over the last two award nights we have donated a total of $215,595?

“The 2023 PRET Australia Awards Night Sponsors that are related to the management rights industry include our Triple Diamond Donor Golden Water Finance Group Penny Huyan and Jason Fu, let’s thank them for donating $10,000 each year to our chosen charity!

“Diamond Donor REDY Group Silvia and Ben Liu, for donating $10,000 to charity since last year.

“2023 Platinum Donors who have committed to $5000 donations include Resort Brokers (thank you Alex Cook and Jessie Shi), FutureXPowers (thank you Scott Lai), Mahoneys (thank you John Mahoney).

“And thank you to our event media partner Resort News

“We also have some of our Gold Sponsors with us today, thank you to Property Bridge Darren Brent and Bobo Qi, Shine Realty Celine Tseng and Tom Wu, Onsite MR Fan Li, KP Business Advisors,

“I want to especially thank Innovision Body Corporate Services and TF International for also sponsoring the morning tea and afternoon tea today. We have many more donors and sponsors for our Awards Night this year all wanting to contribute towards our charity fundraiser.”

Three of the PRET Australia 5 Star Onsite Manager Award winners from 2022 were also in attendance at the forum and shared the importance of onsite managers not just doing a good job but also showing they are doing it well. They said that’s why onsite managers should nominate themselves for both the PRET Australia 5 Star Onsite Manager Awards 2023 and the ARAMA Top Awards.

Paul added: “Why not, show off your great work so people can see you are doing a great job!”