RE/MAX events

RE/MAX Australia July Rally

RE/MAX Australia held its July 2018 Rally at the Victoria Park Golf Complex in Brisbane.

Michael Sheargold, one of Australasia’s most well-recognised thought leaders, who’s known as a champion of change for the real estate industry, was the first of two keynote speakers on the day. Bruce Sullivan, who managed his own businesses from his teens and established a million-dollar network by age 24, was the second, and concluded the program the message: ‘Be your BEST you!’

The network’s January to June top performers were awarded, with RE/MAX Bayside Properties named top sales and RE/MAX Ignite, in Brisbane’s River Hills, named top office for property management growth. Lachlan Anderson from RE/MAX First, Caloundra, was the top sales agent for the period, while RE/MAX Bayside Properties produced the top sales teams, the Neilson Team and Team Gould.

The Rally program included ‘edge-ofthe-seat’ auctions with the 2018 RE/MAX Australia Auctioneer of the Year’ competition where the three finalists gave it their all. Paul Gaffney, from RE/MAX Executives, Holland Park, triumphed over Yianni Mooney, from RE/MAX First in Caloundra, and Greg Mulvihill, from RE/MAX Riverside at Graceville, to take the title.

RE/MAX Australia presented Make-A-Wish® Australia Business Development Manager, Rhiahne Ralph, with a cheque for $43,899, representing the previous 12 months of the network’s fundraising efforts.

Rally time in New Zealand

RE/MAX New Zealand held its August 2018 Rally at the Novotel Ellerslie, Auckland, where the successful full-day event brought a focus on leadership to RE/MAX members.

The first keynote speaker was Justin Nickerson, who is formally recognised as the leading auctioneer across Australasia. Relationships are the cornerstone of real estate business, he said, as he examined the power of information and transparency between the agent, buyer and vendor.

Second keynote speaker was pilot, Everest mountaineer, adventurer and dedicated family man, Mike Allsop, who is living proof of his philosophy ‘if you believe you can, you will’. His accomplishments include an unguided Everest expedition and running seven marathons in seven days on seven continents.

RE/MAX New Zealand awarded its top performers for the first half of 2018 to complete the Rally program. Winners were RE/MAX Go For Sold, Palmerston North; Team Lewis, RE/MAX Go For Sold; Donna Russell, RE/MAX Central, Rotorua, and Lisa Walden, RE/MAX Zest, Pokeno. Zoran Mulovski, RE/MAX Zest, Remuera, was announced the top performing commercial agent.

Denver-based Cheryl Luster, RE/MAX Senior Global Development Consultant, travelled to New Zealand for the event, and presented RE/MAX International Hall of Fame awards to Debbie Aldred, RE/MAX Realty Group; Jeff Bracegirdle, RE/MAX Partners; and Cherry Holden, RE/MAX Team Realty.

Study tour to Mongolia

Real estate business owners and agents from more than 25 regions traveled to Seoul, South Korea, for the fourth annual RE/MAX Asia Pacific Convention in August last year. More than 350 delegates attended, representing all 18 regions in the Asia Pacific, plus the US, Switzerland and others.

Real estate specialists talked trends and prospects of the global real estate market, real estate systems in their respective regions and investment opportunities.

Australia and New Zealand join 16 other regions in RE/MAX’s Asia Pacific network – South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Guam, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Malaysia and Myanmar – and participants agreed that the greatest value in being there was the ample opportunity given to network, establish and build on relationships and discuss relevant issues.

The global real estate giant, RE/MAX®, acknowledged its top regional performances at the Convention, with Australia and New Zealand claiming four awards. The Asia Pacific is proving one of the fastest growing regions for RE/MAX globally.

“For the first time ever, the greatest growth in RE/MAX globally in terms of agent and office count has come from outside the United States and Canada,” said Michael Davoren, who is one of six regional owners on the RE/MAX Global Advisory Council.

“Individual relationships formed at Asia Pacific Conventions are leading to genuine business being done.”

There was keen interest in commercial real estate, and hotels in particular.

“Incoming investors represent a broad range, from companies to families. And Asia Pacific is far more than just China in terms of business interest in Australia and New Zealand. Nor is it all one way. For example, Australians invest in the Asia Pacific – chalets in Japan ski fields, and holiday homes in Bali, Thailand and Sri Lanka.”

Previous Asia Pacific Conventions have been in Singapore, Bangkok and the Gold Coast. The 2019 location is New Delhi in India.

Michael Davoren led an Australian/ New Zealand contingent to Mongolia at the end of August last year, coinciding with the RE/MAX Mongolia bi-monthly ‘We are RE/MAX’ training and awards event.

Michael and others presented to 32 RE/MAX Mongolia business owners and 450 agents.

The visit involved three days of presentations, office visits, meetings, and tours of residential and commercial sectors and the countryside.

With the feedback from the visiting party, plus the subsequent promotion about this year’s study tour, the size of the study tour group is expected to grow. (The 2019 destination was still under wraps at the time of writing).

Interesting facts:

There are more than 2000 Mongolian students in Australia.

There are 1250 ‘Mossies’ living in Australia permanently.

There are 650 Australians living in Mongolia.

Read more about Mongolia in ‘Mongolia on the bucket list’ –page 28.