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2020: the year in review for the property management industry

10 December 2020PropertySafe

2020 has been a year that will forever be etched in the memories of everyone on the planet, largely for all the wrong reasons. But it hasn’t all been doom and gloom. The property management industry has shown incredible strength and resilience through very challenging times and we have seen the approval of a number…

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Want your landlords to refer you to others? Proactivity is the key.

10 November 2020PropertySafe

Being an excellent property manager who is referred to other landlords takes doing more than just leasing their property, collecting the rent, conducting routine inspections and responding to repairs and maintenance requests from tenants. Protecting a landlord’s asset is about being proactive. This article explains why and provides some tips to make it easy. Too…

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Worked from home for COVID-19? Here’s what you can & can’t claim

7 June 2020PropertySafe

Did the COVID-19 crisis have you working from home for some of this year? If so you’re not alone. With EOFY almost upon us, it’s important to know that there are certain expenses you can claim a deduction for if you were forced to work from home due to the health crisis. This may result…

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Effectively handling maintenance to avoid injuries & legal claims

26 March 2020PropertySafe

Staying compliant with relevant legislation and delivering a great customer experience in property management can require a fine balancing act. Andrew Cox from Maintenance Manager delivered a practical session at the REIQ Summit in March that showed how you can tick both boxes and retain more customers in the process. Here is a summary of…

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NSW Rental Reforms – what you need to know

19 March 2020PropertySafe

The REINSW refers to the upcoming NSW rental reforms as “sweeping changes”. So exactly what is changing and how much of an impact will those changes really have on you, your landlords and tenants? All states and territories in Australia have now responded to demand for minimum housing standards for tenants. As a result we…

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Coronavirus & property management – be sensible but don’t panic

12 March 2020PropertySafe

While the media could be blamed for fear mongering when it comes to coronavirus and some would argue that it’s nothing more than a ‘storm in a teacup’, we all need to take sensible, measured precautions. But what do ‘sensible precautions’ look like at work and in particular, in property management? According to the OECD,…

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Rental Reforms – National Update

20 February 2020PropertySafe

Demand for minimum housing standards for the growing number of tenants in Australia has resulted in rental reforms being rolled out state by state. Now all states and territories are on board, albeit at different stages of the process. So, what’s the latest in your state/territory? Based on the last Census, 31% of Australians rent…

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The Queensland Rental Reform Roadmap

12 December 2019PropertySafe

By now you would have heard the news about the QLD government’s proposed rental reforms and the subsequent responses from the REIQ and others about Stage 1 of the proposal. But what are the reforms trying to achieve? Rental reforms are nothing new in Queensland and elsewhere. In July this year New Zealand implemented national…

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ATO targeting property investors

27 June 2019PropertySafe

It’s tax time and that means most of your landlords would be gearing up to complete their annual tax return. One thing they may not be aware of however is that the ATO has announced a crackdown on investment property deductions.  According to the ATO, 2.2 million Australians claimed over $47 billion in tax deductions…

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‘Meth House’ family to sue real estate agency

16 May 2019PropertySafe

A Gold Coast family that unwittingly lived as tenants in a house riddled with toxic levels of methamphetamine is currently planning to take their former real estate agency to court. After testing, it was discovered that the house had been contaminated with the drug by previous tenants. The managing agency was ordered to pay the…

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National Safety Alert on Gas Heaters

2 May 2019PropertySafe

A national safety warning has been issued this month on four gas heater models following a tragic death from carbon monoxide poisoning in Victoria.  With winter just around the corner, this is an issue all property managers must be on top of now. The four models in question all failed safety tests, prompting the national…

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How a broken light cost two agents $330k in damages

11 April 2019PropertySafe

Two real estate agents in NSW were recently ordered to pay a tenant $330,000 because they allegedly failed to respond to requests made via email to fix a broken light. The five owners of the property and the agents all denied responsibility when the tenant slipped down the building’s common stairwell in the dark and…

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