Our special guest on this week’s Real Estate Renovators is mortgage broker Bernard Desmond, the founder, director and CEO of Blank Financial. He recently took home the Community Champion award at the 2025 Mortgage & Finance Association of Australia (MFAA) State Excellence Awards for Victoria and Tasmania. Bernard tells us how he found his passion in mortgage broking, why he sees broking as a still-undervalued service, and what he sees as the secrets to his success. He also explains how he builds relationships with agents, his unique approach to marketing himself and his service, and why he considers his role as one of finding solutions for people. Bernard’s enthusiasm and positivity is evident throughout this episode of Real Estate Renovators, so click Play right now to enjoy his chat with Rex and Chanell.

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Our special guest on this week’s Real Estate Renovators is Darren Krakowiak, founder of CRE Success.

Darren tells Rex and Chanell how he came to create CRE Success, why he focuses on commercial and not residential real estate, and how he helps his clients.

He shares some of his philosophy on growing a business and explains the sorts of tools and support that he provides to help commercial real estate principals to accelerate revenue growth.

Darren also talks about the community he’s building through his membership program.

It’s an extremely informative episode of Real Estate Renovators, so click Play right now to hear Darren’s insights.

Our special guest on this week’s Real Estate Renovators is Daniel Nik, co-founder of Logic Media.

Daniel shares his insights into using social media to grow your brand and reach more potential buyers and sellers.

He tells Rex and Chanell how he’s increased engagement for clients, what works well on social media, and what you should be aiming for when you do post.

If you’ve ever wondered whether it might be worth live-streaming an auction, wait until you hear what Daniel has to say!

If you’re not on all the social media platforms right now, we think you might change your mind after this episode of Real Estate Renovators, so click Play right now to get the good oil!

Our special guest on this week’s Real Estate Renovators is Tim Graham, General Manager of Hotspotting.

Tim explains how Hotspotting came to be, how it’s evolved to incorporate AI, and what it now offers. He also reveals what some current hot spots are (you’ll be more than surprised!) and why that’s the case.

Tim, Rex and Chanell discuss how to identify opportunities in the market, how different people view the landscape, the role of buyer’s agents, and how attitudes to both home ownership and property investment have changed over time.

It’s another enlightening episode of Real Estate Renovators, so click “play” right now!

Our special guest on this week’s Real Estate Renovators is Jason Colbey, Head of Franchise Partnerships for Tapi.

Tapi is a powerful software system that helps property managers manage maintenance, including the vital compliance aspect.

Jason talks passionately about why PMs are so valuable to every real estate business and how Tapi is designed to empower them to be far more efficient (and less stressed).

He tells Rex and Chanell that better managing maintenance at rental properties is just part of taking customer service to the next level.

He explains how Tapi works for tradies, as well as the benefits for landlords, and discusses the overall advances in technology designed specifically for the real estate industry.

This episode of Real Estate Renovators might prompt you to take your agency to the next level, so click “play” right now!

Our special guest on this week’s Real Estate Renovators is Bryce Holdaway from Empower Wealth Advisory.

Bryce has literally written the book on investing in property to fund your lifestyle after retirement.

He also has some brilliant ideas on how to build your brand so that people will come to you.

He tells Rex and Chanell where he sees misconceptions about wealth building, selecting the right properties to invest in, and understanding how much money you’ll need after you’ve stopped working.

And he has some advice for the younger generations to get their mindset around investing and creating wealth.

There’s an absolute wealth of information in this new episode of Real Estate Renovators, so click “play” right now!

Our special guest on this week’s Real Estate Renovators is Dexter Prack, CEO of the Ray White Judd White Group.

Dexter talks about his approach to real estate, leadership, running a business, nurturing staff, taking chances, what’s really valuable, and celebrating success.

He tells Rex and Chanell what he thinks has helped him succeed in the real estate business and explains why he chose to partner with Ray White in his new venture.

If you know Dex, you’ll know this will be an enjoyable and entertaining chat … and if you don’t know him yet, you’ll probably want to after watching … so click play right now for this latest episode of Real Estate Renovators.

Our special guests on this week’s Real Estate Renovators are Danny Han and Liam Carrington from VICPROP.

Danny talks about how he came to establish the business and his vision for VICPROP, its offices, and its team members.

Liam explains what attracted him to join VICPROP and what he believes sets the VICPROP business model apart from the rest.

It’s a fascinating insight into a newer real estate company with a different approach and an ambition to change the way the industry has traditionally operated.

It might just change how you look at the business of real estate, so click play right now to watch this thought-provoking episode of Real Estate Renovators.