Here are the authors behind the property book of the year, Insiders Know-How: Property Investment Australia
Michael Davoren
Managing Director and master franchise owner of RE/MAX Australia and RE/MAX New Zealand
Michael Davoren has been in real estate for around four decades and held Senior Management positions and Directorships with major real estate groups in Australia and New Zealand. Michael has also held leadership positions in the industry having been President of both the Real Estate Institute of Queensland and the Real Estate Institute of Australia. He was an Executive Board member of the Chicago-based International Consortium of Real Estate Associations for five years.
Michael became Managing Director of RE/MAX Australia in 2011 and registered owner of RE/MAX Australia and RE/MAX New Zealand in November 2013. The first 14 months under new ownership saw the RE/MAX Australia and RE/MAX New Zealand networks transformed with new technology, new training, new branding, new systems, new ownership, new leadership and new energies.
Michael has specialised in international relationships in real estate over many years and is currently very active in strengthening the RE/MAX Pacific Rim region, which is harnessing the enormous amount of real estate business flowing between the ten countries in the region where REMAX is represented.
RE/MAX is the No.1 real estate agency business in the world based on volume of sales and many other criteria. It is in some 90 countries, has over 6500 offices, and employs or contracts more than 90,000 people worldwide, including around 19,000 sales agents operating outside of Canada and the United States where it began in 1973, founded by Dave and Gail Liniger of Denver, Colorado.
Scott Pendlebury
Scott Pendlebury is the founder and Managing Director of Australia’s fastest growing online building fixtures retailer – RenovatorStore.com.au. After a career of over 20 years in Investment Banking, Scott turned his attention towards his passion: home renovation. Scott has personal experience in many successful home renovations of his own, as well as setting up a professionally managed residential investment fund in the US that buys, renovates, and leases.
Scott recognised that the Australian building fixtures market was too expensive and void of suitable choice. He launched Renovator Store at the start of 2013 so that home owners that are building or renovating can access a wide choice of fairly priced building fixtures that they would normally have to source by driving around all the retail outlets. These include tapware, bathroom fittings, storage hardware, lighting, door hardware, and even home theatre cabling.
Now Scott enjoys sharing his passion for smart building techniques, great home design, and how to be a smart renovator through his blog on the Renovator Store website.
Andrew Crossley
Andrew Crossley from Australian Property Advisory Group is a qualified Property Advisor and Property Advocate with over 20 years’ experience in wealth management, property and finance both here and internationally working in Private Banking in Austria, Italy, Netherlands, UK, and the Cayman Islands.
Although Andrew has grown his personal property portfolio to 11 properties and just under 4 million, it is his balanced and risk managed approach to his properties that was recognised in the ‘Your Investment Property’ magazine where he was recognised in the 2012 Property Investor of the year Awards, placing him 5th overall in Australia.
He has conducted several seminars on Property; Wealth Creation through Property and Self- Managed Super Fund lending. Andrew is also on the Forrester Cohen National panel of certified Property Advisors. Andrew has recently been asked to become a contributor to the “Your Investment Property” Magazine, Smart Property Investor Blog, The Advisor, and Money Magazine on the topics of lending and property.
Andrew has also contributed to Terry Ryder’s quarterly report, (Terry being Australia’s foremost respected location hotspot analyst), and he is also referred business from Money magazine.
His Qualifications include:
• Accredited Property Investment Advisor through Property Investors Association of Australia
• A Licensed Real Estate Agent (NSW and VIC)
• Has a Diploma in Financial Services (Financial Planning) making him a qualified Financial Planner.
• A Diploma in Financial Services (Finance/Mortgage Broking Management) qualifying him as a Mortgage Broker.
• He is 2 subjects away from his CPA
• He has an MBA
• A Masters degree in Commerce
• A Masters degree in Commercial Law
• And is a Justice of the Peace.
Andrew’s Book “Property Investing Made Simple is available for you to download today, Andrew’s book is now officially an international # 1 AMAZON BEST SELLER.
Julie Crockett
Julie Crockett is the CEO of Australian Property Investment Solutions Pty Ltd (API Solutions) and has been investing in residential real estate since 2002, building a property portfolio on a single income.
She is now dedicated to mentoring others so that they can successfully build investment property portfolios.
She has been nominated for Telstra Business Woman of the Year in 2013 and 2014.
Milly Brigden
Milly Brigden is an investment property expert and Licensed Real Estate Agent. Her goal is to educate and assist Australian individuals in the power of property as an asset class and the importance of compound interest. Milly Brigden began investing at the age of 19 and is passionate about property and wealth creation.
Milly Brigden is Co-Founder of Property Investor Solutions – a boutique property research agency that collaborates with leading property developers to provide quality property investment opportunities to our approved industry business partners (financial planners/mortgage brokers/real estate agents) and their investors.
Charyn Youngson
Charyn Youngson is an Author, Property Renovator, Professional Home Stager, Property Coach and Buyer’s Agent.
She has spent the past decade renovating and home staging millions of dollars worth of property transformations of her own and for hundreds of clients that have either SOLD for Top Dollar for vendors, or increased in value for homeowners and investors.
Her breadth of knowledge and depth of experience in design and property transformation is extensive.
As a regular radio guest renovation specialist, public speaker, magazine contributor and blogger, her skill and experience for guiding others to renovate their properties profitably is unrivalled in her home city, Adelaide. More recently Charyn has combined her talents of Buyer’s Agent and Property Coach.
As an independent Buyer’s Agent, she brings all of her years of real estate experience along with a team of professional experts together in one place. She champions the needs of buyers to support, advocate and negotiate on their behalf to locate, investigate and assist in the purchase of their dream home or ideal investment property for the lowest possible price and the best possible terms and conditions.
Charyn also specialises in finding under market value properties and once secured, helps her clients to add value to their property investment through renovation and/or development via her renovation & design consultancy service.
In Charyn’s book Sold for Top Dollar – Low Cost Home Improvements to Maximise Your Sale, she shares her simple, cost effective property makeover strategies and tips in a down to earth, no nonsense and practical manner that is not only easy to read but easy to implement. Discover how you too can find that pot of gold buried at the end of your home rainbow and learn the secrets that smart real estate entrepreneurs use to sell property for PROFIT.
Charyn Youngson
Author “Sold for Top Dollar – Low Cost Home Improvements that Maximise your Sale”
Matthew Flegler
Matthew Flegler has extensive knowledge and experience leading initiatives involving real estate subdivision, residential and commercial developments. Currently the Director of Farm Developments Matt overseas all property development projects from acquisition to completion. http://www.farmdevelopments.com.au/
The team at Farm Developments have over 50 years combined experience and donate much of their profits from their business towards philanthropic causes. The team have been described as ‘Savvy project directors with great integrity and an exceptionally high level of professionalism’
For details of their most recent project in Queensland, Australia. Please see http://www.edenvaleestate.com.au/
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