Keep Your Eyes On Robina Town Centre

Last month’s Robina Chamber of Commerce meeting was devoted to just one topic...the future development of the Robina Town Centre.  We were provided with full details and just one word comes to mind....WOW!

For those of you who “just want  the facts maam”...here goes:

• An additional 100 speciality shops

• A 900 seat Food Court with approximately 14 dining options

• A tavern and up to 10 restaurants around the lake

• Yet another Woolworths supermarket (making two in the centre plus Coles)

• A massive 10,000m2 Big W

• A large modern cinema complex

• A further 1,100 car parks making 6,000 in all and around half will be covered

When finished Robina Town Centre will be one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere

As one of my international investors said to me recently “every time I come here there have been so many positive changes.” 

My crystal ball tells me that 2008 and 2009 will be exciting years and the people of Robina can be well satisfied with the level of amenities and services right on their door step.

Kind regards,

 

Alanah Day

Managing Director

 

Robina Set To Become Foodies Heaven

We’ve always been well catered for in the fast food arena...but a little thin in the slow-food, ambience variety of fine dining.

Well, that’s about to change with up to 14 new restaurants taking advantage of what will be a superb outlook over the lake. Plus there are a number of quality restaurants popping up in other locations like Reflections which is now located opposite the Post Office. My personal favourite is Molina’s in the Robina Super Centre.

Yes, we now have choices and the choices are going to get more plentiful!

Robina Town Centre dining will be enhanced by the lake feature. Slow eating of quality food over a good bottle of vino...hmmm!

Presentation IS Everything

At Robina Realty we’ve been spending time looking at our systems and specifically, how we can add a winning uniqueness that will get the highest possible price for our clients. We’re about to install two major initiations.

Photography

Without question, brilliant photography raises a buyer’s interest, emotional involvement and perception of quality....and so we went hunting for the best photographer we could find...someone who can literally make a copper coin sparkle like a freshly minted gold medallion. It took us six months to track that person down ...but we’ve found him...right here under our nose.

Dean Saffron is not only a brilliant commercial photographer he’s also the well deserved winner of over thirty international photography awards and is ranked third in the world by the prestigious IWP Journalists Association such is his ability to perfectly present a beautiful couple on their most important of days or a property at its absolute radiant best.

Anyhow...we’ve managed to arm-wrestle Dean into providing us with a comprehensive service whereby he personally supervises the quality of the photography shoot. The end result: better presentation, better perception of value, higher price!

Floor Plans

PLUS...we’ve been experimenting with another strategy...floor plans. That’s right, floor plans.

You see, we’ve noticed that they are highly prized by prospective buyers and they are brilliant at answering those subjective questions about whether things will fit or not. We believe, having researched the subject quite thoroughly, that plans assist us (and you) to obtain a better quality prospect who is in a position to more accurately align their wants with the property.

That said, we’ve now actively searching for a quality draftsperson to join the Robina Realty Production Team. Believe me, when we’ve got these plans we can really use them in a marketing sense. For starters they go on the reverse side of flyers...they will be a big feature on our website and that includes the traditional search sites such as http://www.realestate.com.au/ and http://www.domain.com.au/

At Robina Realty we are constantly looking for the little EXTRAS that separate ordinary from EXTRAORDINARY.

Hey, if you’re thinking of selling or would like an obligation free assessment of current market value so as to assist your “to sell or not sell” decision, please call us on 1300 762 462 and ask for Bridget.

Imagine If You Could Just See The End Result Of A Renovation Job ...Or Visualise How Your Furniture Might Fit Into A Home

Well you can...and this month you can get this “peek into the future” for FREE when you buy the November issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine which is now on sale. That’s because this issue is offering a free copy of the My Virtual Home software program which gives you the chance to experiment with ideas and designs for your home, then go online and find the latest products from a wide range of suppliers to suit your needs.

Using the CAD (computer aided design) software, you can either import a scanned floor plan of your home, or enter the measurements manually, then once the basics are known, you can add fixtures like showers, sinks, bench-tops, lights and a myriad of other choices.

Then come the furnishings. 

With a huge database available, you'll be able to see just how they will look in your home, and when you're happy with your selection, the click of a mouse will bring up a list of suppliers in your region or send off a copy of your layout to a supplier so you can get a quote without even leaving home.

Hey, it’s FREE and the web online chit-chat sites suggest that the masses are happy with it.

The Real Truth Of The Sub-Prime Fiasco In The Antipodes

Isn’t it ironical? Go back three months ago and 99.8% of Aussies had never heard of the term “sub-prime” market, much less know what it means...and yes, I’ll fess up and say I’m included in the 99.8%!

Today the 99.8 percenters still aren’t sure what this term means but thanks to the media, many now regard it as the possible trigger to a recession.

Well I’ve done some digging and whilst this financing method is prevalent in the USA with some 20% of domestic mortgages originating this way, in Australia the figure is only 2%.

Sure, our financial institutions (particularly the non-bank lending sector) may have become more lax with their lending policies but we are hardly in, or even remotely approaching, a melt-down as has been suggested by some of the more audacious newspaper-selling journalists...and let’s be candid, nothing sells newspapers like fear and negativity.

The more rational, even-tempered economists are still predicting a smooth path with perhaps a few of the non-bank financiers tightening their lending and we still have a possible interest rate rise at the end of the year and then early next year. That said, we’ve all had time to factor these matters in.

Perhaps the following gag describes the feeling of the Wall Street moguls who have created the sub-prime mess:  

A double breasted, pony-tailed, cafe-latte drinking banker says to his friend, "I'm a walking economy."  The friend replies "How so?"

"My hair line is in recession, my stomach is a victim of inflation, and both of these together are putting me into a deep depression!"

And finally, another chuckle:

Whatever Happened To Trust?

An elderly fisherman wrote to a mail order house the following:

"Please send me one of those gasoline engines for my boat you show on page 438, and if it's any good, I'll send you a cheque."

In a short time he received the following reply: "Please send cheque. If it's any good, we'll send the engine."                     

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