Community and Health - REAL ESTATE AGENT
Price
Estimation in your suburb or town!
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
1. Get a copy of a real estate catalogue (the one that lists the houses for sale in your
local area) or use
Allhomes.com.au
2. Go through the houses from your local area and see what factors contribute to the price of the house.
For example, the number of bedrooms, bathrooms, block
size, where the house is situated, etc. Develop a
table showing the best price to the lowest price - see the sales history
pages on Allhomes. What other factors do you think help a house sell for
more? Can you see where the differences lie?
3. Look at the houses yet to be sold in your suburb or
town. Read a description of a house and view the
photos. Estimate the price and check after it is sold to see how close you
were to the price the house went for.
4. Get used to the real estate 'lingo' and write up a description
for your own house using this terminology. What price
would you estimate your home to go for?
Advice
on Selling a Property: Developing a Checklist of the Tips and Tricks!
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
1. Go to the following websites to get ideas and advice on the tips and tricks of selling a house:
Realestate.com.au  |
LJ Hooker |
Better
Homes & Gardens |
The Living Room |
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2. From all the tips and tricks presented, develop a checklist. Make sure that the list is only 1 - 2 pages in length. Share with a partner. Are there any tips that are more importantly than others? Put them in order of importance - importance in selling a house.
3. Beautify the checklist so you can hand it out to prespective "clients". Use Canva
4. With a critical eye, use your checklist on your own home - both inside and outsite. What things would need:
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Painting?
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Replacing?
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De-cluttering?
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Re-decorating?
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Cleaning?
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Redesigning?
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Restyling?
5. Can you estimate the cost of these changes? How much more value will you add to your home if you make these changes?
Airbnb
- the Disruptor in the Rental Market
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
1. The rental market is a strong part of a Real Estate Agent's portfolio.
A new player (one from 2008) Airbnb has come onto the scene.
| Airbnb is a peer-to-peer online marketplace
and homestay network that enables people to list or rent short-term
lodging in residential properties, with the cost of such
accommodation set by the property owner. The company receives percentage service fees from both guests and hosts in conjunction with every booking. It has over 2,000,000 listings in 34,000 cities and 191 countries. Airbnb was founded in August 2008, is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is privately owned and operated. (Source: Wikipedia) |
Look at the Airbnb website
and this
YouTube: Airbnb: A Life Changing Story By Danny Papineau
https://youtu.be/YJB31JAxcuY
2. What strategies could you think of to contain the effect of Airbnb on your "patch"?
3. Read the following
article from
The Conversation 16 September 2016 
This article poses three questions:
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What opportunities and dangers does the platform present?
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What are the implications of repurposing existing residential infrastructure for short-term accommodation?
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What happens when the global “sharing economy” meets a city’s suburbs?
4.
What is your response to these questions? Discuss and share with a partner.
Websites, Games & Apps
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Houseflip
- see how you go as a real estate agentPrimary
Middle
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
ICT Capability |
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Conversion
of an old WebQuest: Flipping a House
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
ICT Capability
1. Go to the Web Archive (you
will only be able to do this at home as the Archive is restricted in
schools)
2. Add the Flipping
a House URL:
http://www.fcswebquests.colostate.edu/webquests/house_flipping.htm
into the box provided.
3. Convert this old WebQuest into a new
one with new listings of websites and maybe activities
by using one of the many
website builders.
4. Send to On the Job the new URL for your new WebQuest
