When REIA’s first conference was held one hundred years ago, the living wage for ‘female employees’ was £2, Sydney’s median weekly rents were about 12 shillings, a Paddington terrace house had just sold for £1750, and headlines raged about the ‘Acute Housing Shortage.’

Leading property auctioneers, from across Australasia, have descended on Auckland New Zealand to compete at this Trans-Tasman event to battle for the right to call themselves the ultimate Australasian Auctioneering Champion.

John McGrath, Chief Executive Officer of McGrath Estate Agents, outlines some basic negotiation skills.

The Housing Australia Future fund will receive funding of $10 billion and is tasked with supplying 30,000 new social and affordable homes.