Hi Everyone,

If you are looking for ways to improve your skills and brush up on all the latest and greatest in the industry in February and March, look no further!

South Australia’s First Ever Real Estate Expo!!!
We are really delighted to have been chosen to be part of the Inaugural Real Estate Best Supplier Expo in South Australia on Thursday the 19th of Feb. To be held at the Festival Function Centre in Findon, over 20 suppliers have been chosen to participate in this event. There will be some nationally renown speakers, an REISA legislation and industry update session, and conclude with an industry Networking Event. This event is FREE to all industry practitioners. For more information, click here.

LPMA - Shine in ‘09
The annual Leading Property Managers of Australia “Shine in 09” Agency Principals Forum and Property Managers Forum is being held on 20 -21 March 2009 at The Novotel Twin Waters on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The Leading Property Managers of Australia (LPMA) is an association that was formed to promote, recognise and support likeminded property managers and principals striving to achieve excellence within this important part of the real estate sector. This will be our first year sponsoring this event and we are very excited (look for the RE Connect oneCard logo!)

The LPMA Agency Principals Forum is targeted directly to Principals and Department Managers. Running concurrently will be the LPMA Property Managers Forum focused towards “coal face” property management staff. These events occur on 20 March.

Both groups then come together for the LPMA Combined Agency Principals and Property Managers Forum on 21 March.

In LPMA’s tradition of integrity and best practice in property management, business processes, technology, leadership and business development across Australia, we believe this event will be unequalled in 2009. To find out more on this event go to www.lpma.com.au

PPM Group - Annual Property Management Survey

The PPM Group are once again in the process of undertaking a National Property Management Survey to benchmark key areas of the department. You need to participate in the survey to get a copy of the results! To my knowledge this is the most comprehensive survey in Australia of it’s kind, and can perhaps answer a lot of the questions about how your business is doing versus everyone else.

The survey will cover a wide range of areas, including: how many properties can a property manager manage, hours worked, average age, salary averages, commission paid, over-time worked, are lunch breaks taken, vacancy and arrears rates, properties gained and lost, structure of PM Depts and much more

The PPM Group are conducting two individual Property Management surveys:
(Click on the below links to participate in the survey)
Each survey takes less than 5 minutes to complete on-line

1) National Property Management Department Survey
To be completed by the Principal, Dept. Manager or appointed person.

2) National Property Management Staff Survey.
To be completed by all Property Management staff.

Please forward the Staff Survey to all staff within your office to complete.

All survey results are automatically managed by an on-line survey system that compiles the results into easy to read graphs , which will be forwarded to all participants.

One of my favourite events of the year is always the National TCE Conference by the PPM Group which will be held in June 12, 13 and 14 at the Gold Coast Marriott. This year its caled “Accelerate your performance into Top Gear”.

More about this event next post!