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Management Rights Industry - Industry News

2012 - What A Year

20 March 2013

If any year is memorable in the management rights industry 2012 will be my stand out for more than one or two reasons...

Are We Buying Or Selling?

27 March 2009

  Many years ago as a naïve twenty year old, I embarked on my sales career...

Are you doing the estate agents job for him?

29 April 2014

I’m trying to buy an investment holiday unit at the moment on the Gold Coast...

Aurora owners fear swarms of tourists

12 May 2008

By Shannon Molloy for Brisbane TimesAfter hearing news Brisbane's tallest building Aurora Towers could be turned into a hotel, some apartment owners ...

Be careful where you get advice

05 March 2008

Management Rights are a very safe business...

Between The Devil The Deep Blue Sea

20 December 2013

November has been and gone, and the management rights industry powers ahead...

Bringing In 2014

31 March 2014

We finished 2013 off with a bang and it looks like 2014 will be even better...

BUILDINGS IN STORM AFFECTED AREAS UNDER-INSURED BY UP TO 78%

21 December 2008

Solutions ie, the leading report provider for the strata industry with over 24 years experience and 55,000 reports completed, has found that increasin...

Buying Management Rights in NSW - part I

18 August 2008

I have specialised in listing and selling New South Wales management rights for the past seven years...

Coasting Along

02 February 2015

By Shane Wynhoven Australia’s east coast has traditionally been a hotspot for tourism.  But when the Australian dollar hits record highs, it...

Council powerless to stop swap

01 May 2008

By Shannon Molloy for Brisbane TimesBrisbane City Council admits it's powerless to stop the conversion of city apartment complexes into hotels, with ...

Do you need a pool certificate?

16 July 2015

I'd like to offer my services to perform pool safety inspections for apartment complex managers around Brisbane...

FACT, THE ACTUAL FACT and NOTHING BUT THE FACT

21 April 2013

I thought it may be an opportune time to brush up on the Verification of Financial Records Clause 12 K as it appears in a management rights contract o...

Failed attempt to use move-on provision

31 January 2008

By Frank Higginson, partner, Hynes LawyersSection 140 of the BCCMA provides that a body corporate can force a letting agent to sell its business and ?...

First Impressions Are Important

23 June 2015

We have all been there!! Looking for a house to buy in any chosen location and we come across a nice looking property...

Fortune favours the bold motel buyer

16 April 2015

Significant opportunities are now available in regional Australia for experienced, resourceful motel operators willing to back their own judgment ...

Glass Half Full

21 December 2008

We are all familiar with the analogy – Is the glass half full - or is the glass half empty? Anyone who hasn’t spent the last 12 months in outer spac...

How To Choose The Right Strata Manager

26 May 2013

You may have heard about the strata levies that recently went missing from a trust fund operated by The Strata Agency in Sydney which highlights the n...

Into This Crystal Ball I Gaze

29 January 2009

Well 2008 has come and gone, a year we all would all rather forget in the management rights industry, however some would say „a market correction for...

Investing in a Management Rights Business instead of your home

21 February 2008

By Terry Mc Miles, Independent Broker Many home owners during the past months of re-occurring interest rate hikes have despaired at the rising cost of...

Is now the opportune time to purchase

16 July 2009

Six months to Xmas-has the economy turned?Well we have all weathered the economic downturn and all have been affected in one way or the other...

June 2010 - Hello! Is There Anybody Listening??

29 June 2010

HELLO! IS THERE ANYBODY LISTENING??It never ceases to amaze me, the new industry so-called do-gooders, whom through various reasons try to re-invent t...

Ladies in Management Lunch - Gold Coast

15 February 2008

Lunches are held every third Tuesday of each month, excluding January...

Lets Dust Off The Crystal Ball

20 March 2013

Christmas has come and gone, the kids are back at school and everyone is at work again...

Living Off Site

25 October 2010

This is a question we get asked fairly regularly...

Lot Entitlement Legislation Reversal

20 September 2012

As Jarrod Bleijie MP hinted at a recent Archers Body Corporate Management Education Seminar, the Attorney General introduced to parliament on Friday, ...

Managed Investments Schemes Part One

01 February 2008

By Kirsty Thomas of SMH LawyersYou may have heard the terms ‘MIA’ or ‘Managed Investments Scheme’ and wondered what it’s all about...

Managed Investments Schemes Part Two

01 February 2008

By Kirsty Thomas of SMH LawyersIn Part One of this article, we explored what a managed investment scheme is and why it is relevant to Management Ri...

Management Right Made Easy Seminar

17 February 2014

Following the enormous success of their inaugural seminar on the Gold Coast at the end of 2013, Resort Brokers Australia has expanded to the event to ...

Management Rights - The Good, The Bad The Ugly

30 September 2011

Management Rights - THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY!!!! What a turbulent time the industry is having, here we are September 2011 and the economic condi...

MANAGEMENT RIGHTS - The Old The New

05 August 2014

The commercial reality of buying and selling management rights using the same parameters as any other business transaction has finally, after nearly ...

Management rights - you have it easy!

22 September 2007

Contributed by Bill AtkinsonAs a management rights relief manager I received an email a month ago asking if I would manage a small motel near Bundaber...

Management Rights market overview

19 December 2011

2011 has been to say the least a very different market...

MR - The current facts

18 November 2008

Numerous press articles over the last 6 months or so from industry commentators, had started to place elements of doubt about the management rights in...

Never let it be said: We told you so.

26 May 2009

Here it is May 2009, half the year nearly gone and as busy as ever! Quality management rights are selling regularly at market prices very close to 12 ...

New Tourism Figures Confirm Resilience

15 February 2010

By Tourism AustraliaNew tourism figures released today show international visitors to Australia during 2009 remained steady despite the tough conditio...

People Still Need to Rent

25 September 2011

It’s almost 18 years since I became a management rights sales broker.  In 1995 the market was pretty  quiet.  It was not until around 2000 that th...

POSITIONS VACANT - HELP NEEDED - TOURISTS VERY WELCOME

27 June 2011

The struggle continues, the Aussie dollar continues to rise along with rain gauges, insurance premiums, rates and levies, electricity, petrol, airline...

Preparing the MR business for sale

22 March 2011

Preparing your management rights business for sale is a major consideration and is certainly as important as buying a management rights in the first p...

Property Management questions answered here

05 January 2008

If you have a question relating to Property Management or the MR industry, please feel free to ask it here using the form below...

Property Management: Avoid the January Blues

05 January 2008

By Fiona Blayney Fiona Blayney is a Business Consultant and Trainer for some of Australia's leading agencies...

Resident Unit Managers Advisory Service

18 June 2012

If you own a management rights business and are thinking of selling in the next 12 months, don't miss this session conducted by industry professionals...

Residing off-site

31 January 2008

  By Frank Higginson, partner, Hynes LawyersWe are often asked what is required to allow a resident caretaker to reside off site...

Resort Management Rules... Ok

28 April 2008

Having just returned from 3 weeks in Greece I made an interesting observation of the several hotels and villas I stayed in...

ROI for MR - seeking your comments

22 September 2007

We’ve revised the format of Management Rights search results in the interest of improving usability for prospective MR purchasers...

Selling Managed Units

05 January 2008

 By Les Elborne – REIQ Agency Practice AdvisorConflict between Selling Agents and Restricted Letting Agents is always Non-productive.Owners of manag...

Selling your Management Rights, right.

16 July 2009

Finding informed buyers for Management Rights can be a long and difficult process...

Spring Has Sprung The Buyers Are Out of Hibernation

22 November 2012

The past couple of months have seen a resurgence in enquiry for Management Rights...

Stairway to Heaven

22 September 2010

Stairway to Heaven “There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold and she’s buying a stairway to heaven....”an extract from the Led Zeppeli...

Strata pits resident owners against investors

27 August 2007

Written by: Sue Williams - The AustralianMANY residential apartment buildings across the country are riven with tensions between owners, anger at the...

The Crystal Ball Revisited

17 November 2010

THE CRYSTAL BALL REVISITED 2010 - The Year of Surprise This time last year we were all on the edge of our seats watching the rest of the world financi...

The Gods Must Be Crazy!

22 March 2011

Well here we are, already three months into 2011...

The Ninety Ten Rule

18 October 2008

The Ninety Ten Rule is my version of the old theory “you can’t please all of the people all of the time”...

The rising number of contracts not proceeding

18 August 2015

The past year or so has seen an increasing number of contracts not proceeding to settlement...

The Two Vs - Vendors and Valuers

30 June 2013

THE TWO ‘V’s Vendors and Valuers – Let’s Get It Right In our daily routine of talking with potential Vendors, the dreaded ‘V’ word – valuat...

Unheralded potential for maximising MR income

24 March 2008

The subheading for this article should perhaps be 'Are you a Bunnings junkie?' Because, if you are contemplating the purchase of Management Rights a...

Welcome to the newbies!

30 March 2015

Winward Apartments Mooloolaba...

What happened to the recession

21 October 2009

What a wonderful stable industry, Management Rights are alive and powering forward.The past months of the economic correction has certainly changed th...

What Makes A Contract Happen

13 June 2014

As we all know 2014 has started with a bang with the Aussie dollar coming down against other currencies and particularly the New Zealand dollar which...

Who and What is HiRUM

23 June 2008

A recent survey conducted on ThePropertyManager.com.au reveiled HiRUM was the most-used administration software among resort and residential building ...

Who should be buying lower priced Management Rights Businesses

02 September 2007

By Terry McMilesThere is a mistaken belief that lower priced Management Rights Businesses are only suited to Retirees or semi Retirees in the twilight...

Why buy Management Rights in North QLD

02 September 2007

Life on the land is pretty hard, especially when you see your crops destroyed in a hailstorm...

Buying and Selling Management Rights

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