Popular real estate website, Domain, is joining the stable of apps launching at the same time as Apple's smartwatch, with an app that lets you monitor the market from your wrist. The Apple Watch is released worldwide on April 24.

Investa Land is launching a housing project that aims to crack one of the toughest nuts in greenfield development around Australia: building jobs into new estates. The new Investa project, dubbed Duo, at the Evans Park Business Village in Melbourne's south-east, combines a residential home with a purpose-built workspace.The designs are flexible enough to allow different configurations of office, showroom and storage space set-ups for different kinds of home-based businesses.

Greedy sellers who think they know better than estate agents are the chief cause of under quoting, the head of the agents’ lobby claims. Malcolm Gunning, the president of the Real Estate ­Institute of NSW, said agents were being “lured” into under quoting by homeowners with unrealistic expectations. “I think vendors think they know more than the agents at this stage,” Mr Gunning said, blaming “the greedy market” and advice from TV shows.