AREC10

Last month I attended AREC10 (Australian Real Estate Conference) in Sydney, and had the pleasure of hearing many great speakers.

People often accuse AREC of been a Real Estate ‘junket’. However I believe in training regardless of what stage you are at in your career. Let me put it this way - If you are about to go into heart surgery and you discover your surgeon has not trained for 20 years and that he intends to use a procedure practiced 20 years ago, would you still want to proceed?

This year I was fortunate enough to hear from over 20 speakers including, Sir Bob GELDOF and Edward DE BONO. DE BONO is an author of over 62 books, an educator and a creator of the term ‘lateral thinking.’

Whilst being presented with a wonderful line up of speakers, it also allowed me to mix with colleagues throughout the industry and discuss the challenges for the year ahead. Whilst the first five months of the year has seen a shortage of stock levels, it does seem to be changing. Figures from the REIV show that the after the Queen’s Birthday long weekend there are a record 1000 auctions expected with the previous highest for that weekend being 681.