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credit market is expecting an increase of 0.25 percentage points over the next 12 months. “It will be important to see how the big four banks will respond this year to monetary policy decisions. Whether they will continue increasing mortgage rates more than the increments in the cash rate or adjust mortgage rates accordingly to cash rates movements will be crucial to mortgage holders,” Airey said. Source: REIA
HubOnline launches “$0 upfront fees, no fixed term contract” real estate websites HubOnline, one of the leading providers of real estate software in Australia has announced a ground-breaking pricing model for its new HubStudio website platform. In a move that is likely to reshape the website design community in Australia, the new pricing model already familiar to the telecoms industry – zero upfront cost, no fixed term contract and just $99+GST monthly for maintenance and hosting – is now available through HubOnline. Nicolas Pierret, General Manager for HubOnline, believes many real estate agents have been paying too much for far too long. “Real estate agents have been told they must pay thousands of dollars to create the professional real estate website they need to run their business, but that is largely because website providers had not worked out the right product.
launching a new site and the customer gets a cheaper solution delivered faster and one that is more flexible to future changes,” he said. “HubStudio comes with a control panel that gives the real estate agency the keys to its website. With HubStudio, you don’t need to know anything about technology to keep it fresh for years to come – you can simply add or remove pages and even change the template or colours in seconds at the click of a mouse.” Clearly, a number of agents will continue to require an entirely bespoke design and pay extra for that. With the right website platform however, many agencies can get a website that suits them just fine by tuning up the template. For them, a no-upfront fee, no fixed term model makes perfect sense. “Most website vendors offer you a free quote. We offer you a free website. That should sound quite compelling to a lot of agents out there,” he said. Source: REA Group
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“What agents need is a smart platform that can deliver the look-and-feel they want without requiring much ad-hoc design work in the background,” Nicolas said. That is why HubOnline developed HubStudio. It’s smart enough to create a great-looking real estate website in minutes, with the ability to select instantly an attractive template, upload a logo, change the colour scheme. It even allows agents to build a site map and add specific features critical to their business success – such as property alerts, staff profile pages, calculators, among others. “With a smarter product, everybody wins. The provider spends less time, therefore cost in
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