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The best way to collect rent as a landlord
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a tenant. You’ve gone to pay your rent – a few days early – only, you’ve mistyped your password and been locked out of your account for the next week. It’d be worrying, right? Already, you’d be spiraling…
What is Build to Rent?
While still a relatively new concept in Australia, Build to Rent or BTR is an alternative residential asset class that is gaining traction, with growth estimated at a $10 billion pipeline. Purpose built rental apartments are changing how residential …
The future of trust accounting software
As the world evolves to be increasingly more digitalised, it’s starting to become natural for the majority of business leaders to use software on a day-to-day basis. Where before, we’d write and send invoices by hand, now, third-party platforms like …
What is bad debt recovery?
One of the main responsibilities you have as a property manager is ensuring your customers’ investments remain profitable. The ideal scenario is that they have a steady flow of income from rental payments, but when a tenant defaults on their lease do…
Visitor management software: is it right for you?
Curiosity is always healthy. As a business leader – either for a small, privately-held organisation or a large corporate – it’s always good to ask questions about your current course of operations. Mostly, are you being as efficient as po…
8 Proven Strategies to Boost Tenant Retention
Achieving strong tenant retention rates is a goal on every property manager’s list. Sadly there is no golden answer on how to convince your tenants to stay with you – but there are proven strategies that you can start to implement. Why is tenan…
Three ways to master the complexities of data in real estate financial reporting
This blog was written by insightsoftware, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for the Office of the CFO to connect to and make sense of their data in real time so they can proactively drive greater financial intelligence across their o…
AREC22: Three key data themes that continue to influence the competitive landscape
AREC 2022 was a whirlwind of perspectives, ideas and vendors providing tools that could help agents and property managers be more competitive and grow their businesses. The rich maelstrom of ideas surfaced three themes that are here to stay from a pr…