Key Dates
Entry Period - From 2:00pm (AEST) Wednesday 5 June 2024 to 11.59pm (AEST) on Friday 19 July 2024
Finalists announced - mid-September 2024
Winners announced - 14 November 2024
Below are the eligibility criteria for customer/client awards and individual awards. For customer/client awards, a reference to ‘you’ is a reference to the customer/client’s relevant legal entity (e.g. company, partnership, trustee etc.) that enters into the subscription or advertising agreement – see ‘Who is the entrant?’ below. Both franchisors and franchisees are eligible to enter if they meet the eligibility criteria.
Residential
Customers/clients – All Residential awards
Commercial
Customers/clients – All Commercial awards
Developers, Home Builders and Project Marketers
Customers/clients – All Developers, Home Builders and Project Marketers awards
You must have run a campaign (or if you are a marketing agency, run a campaign on behalf of a client) on www.realestate.com.au, www.realcommercial.com.au at some time between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024.
Media
You must be a client or media agency that purchased an advertising package or product from REA Group between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024 and the marketing activity or campaign needs to have happened in that period (or part of that period).
Community, Wellbeing & Sustainability
You or your business must be eligible for any of the awards outside the Contribution to Community, Wellbeing Initiative of the Year and Excellence in Sustainability category and the activity that forms the basis of your entry must have occurred between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024.
Support Superstar of the Year
Individuals - Administrators and Office Support roles within Residential Agencies, Commercial Agencies, Developers & Builders.
Your business must be eligible for any of the awards outside the Support Superstar of the Year category and the activity that forms the basis of your entry must have occurred between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024.
Rising Star of the Year
Individuals – All customer groups
Your business must be eligible for any of the awards outside the Rising Star of the Year category and the activity that forms the basis of your entry must have occurred between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024.
Most Influential Woman in Property
Individuals – All customer groups
Your business must be eligible for any of the awards outside the Most Influential Woman in Property category and the activity that forms the basis of your entry must have occurred between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024.
Awards – judging criteria
Judging criteria can be found under each award on
About these Terms
You must comply with these terms and conditions of entry, including all general and specific terms that relate to the entrant or the entry (Terms). By entering, you accept and agree to comply with these Terms. In these Terms, ‘we’ or ‘us’ means realestate.com.au Pty Ltd and ‘you’ means you, the entrant.
Entry Period
You must enter during the Entry Period (defined in Key Dates). You will be deemed to have entered at the time we receive your entry. We will confirm that we have received your entry. If you do not receive confirmation within 24 hours of submitting the entry, please contact us.
Changes
We may vary any of the dates, criteria or terms and conditions for the Awards for any reason by placing a notice of the change on www.theareas.com.au. If you have submitted an entry that is affected by any such change we will contact you and provide you with an opportunity to update your entry.
Maximum number of entries
We will accept one entry per Award per entrant only. You may enter as many awards as you want. Every entry must be authorised. Take care when hitting ‘submit’ – see ‘First entry counts’ and ‘Entry authorisation’ below.
First entry counts
If multiple entries are received from you or on your behalf for an Award, the first entry received by us for that Award will be deemed to be your sole entry. All later entries for the Award will be deemed invalid.
Valid subscription
If your REA account (or if you are an individual, the REA account of the customer/client for whom you work) is suspended at any given time, you will be deemed not to have a ‘valid’ subscription as at that time.
Eligibility
To be eligible for an Award, you must meet the Eligibility criteria listed for the Award.
Who is the entrant?
The entrant will be deemed to be the legal entity that holds an account with us. This may be a company, partnership, individual, association, trust or registered charity. For individual Awards, the entrant will be the individual nominated for the Award in the entry process.
Online entries only
Entries will be accepted via the online portal only. We will not accept any objects, books, flyers, installations, models, etc. as part of any entry.
Valid entries only
Judges will not judge any invalid entries. Incomplete, inappropriate (to be determined in REA’s sole discretion), corrupted, illegible, unlawful, defamatory, irrelevant, infringing, fraudulent, misleading or unauthorised entries will be deemed invalid.
Technical issues
We are not responsible for: (a) any technical malfunction in any communication network or platform; or (b) any entries being lost, received late, rendered illegible or corrupted.
Breaching these Terms
If you breach these Terms, we may (in our absolute discretion) invalidate the relevant entry or all of your entries.
Substitution of prizes
Where necessary, we reserve the right to substitute an award prize for a prize of similar value. We will notify you if we need to substitute a prize. All branding is subject to REA approval and prizes must be claimed prior to 30 June 2023.
Winners will receive:
Media coverage and industry acknowledgement
Personalised marketing assets to leverage the win across own platforms
Your representatives
You will be deemed to have authorised the actions of your representatives (including principals, agents, clients, contractors and employees) and approved all entry content that they provide to us. We recommend that you require your representatives to get all entry content approved before it is submitted to us. You must ensure that your representatives do not cause you to breach these Terms.
Make sure you are authorised
If you are an individual, subsidiary, agency or franchisee, submitting on behalf of any entity you must obtain all necessary authorisations and consents required from that entity: i.e. your principal, holding company, client or franchisor (as appropriate) to submit your entry. For example, if you are an individual submitting an entry on behalf of your organisation, or an agency submitting on behalf of your client, you must be authorised to do so. We may ask you to provide proof of authorisation or consent. Failure to provide proof to our reasonable satisfaction may mean we deem your entry to be unauthorised.
Criteria
Submission-based awards
The judges will judge the submission-based Awards according to the relevant judging criteria. Each entry will be given a score out of 100 by adding the aggregate sub-scores for each stated criteria.
Data based awards
The data-based awards will be awarded based on the following data points measured over the period 1 July 2023 – 30 June 2024.
REA Group reserves the right to disqualify for the data-based awards, any entry that is in breach of the realestate.com.au or realcommercial.com.au Terms and Conditions or Acceptable Use Policy. The decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Residential
Sales categorised as Land on site are not considered for the data-based awards. Top agent is an individual award. Agent profiles held by teams are not eligible for the Top Agent Award.
Developer
Commercial
We may ask for additional information for an entry. If you do not provide the requested information, it may compromise the judges’ ability to judge the entry.
Judges
Judges are required to sign confidentiality agreements, declare conflicts of interest and withdraw themselves from judging any entry that has a potential conflict.
Dealings with judges
You must not contact or provide any gift or benefit to any judge in relation to the Awards. If you do so, you must report it to us immediately. If a Judge reports any inappropriate contact by you, your entries will not be accepted.
Insufficient entries
If we do not receive sufficient entries for a particular Award or we do not receive an entry that our judges believe is of an appropriate standard, we will not award a finalist or winner for the relevant Award.
Rights and responsibilities
You warrant to us that: (a) you have all necessary rights, consents and authorisations to submit each of your entries and all the content in them (including all copy, images, video, and branding); (b) you are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in the entry content, including any copyright or trade mark rights contained in that content; (c) all information that you submit is true, current and complete. If you breach any of these warranties, any affected entry will be deemed invalid.
Our rights to use your entry content
By submitting an entry, you grant to us a perpetual, royalty free, world-wide, non-exclusive licence (with a right to sub-license) to use, copy, change, edit, modify, adjust, adapt, exploit, transmit, distribute and publish the entry content in any media for the purpose of promoting the Awards, our goods or services and/or those of any of entity within the REA Group or any of its third party suppliers providing market or promotional services. You warrant that our use of any entry content submitted by you, does not and will not infringe any intellectual property rights of any third party.
Authorship
We will if requested by a specific author of any entry content, attribute the relevant content to the author, but otherwise the individual contributors are deemed to waive any moral rights in respect of entry content.
Help us help you
If you are announced as a finalist or a winner, we would love to promote your success by highlighting your activities and achievements. We ask that you take advantage of this and participate in all promotional activity (such as publicity, interviews, presentations and photography) surrounding your entry.
The art of self-promotion
If you are announced as a finalist or winner, it’s natural that you will want to promote your success. We ask that you discuss with us your plans for promoting your success and get prior approval from us for all marketing and publicity activities that mention the REA Excellence Awards. Please contact events@realestate.com.au to discuss any plans for promotion.
Using the Awards logo
You must obtain consent prior to any use of the awards logo or any logo associated with REA Group, including the realestate.com.au and realcommercial.com.au logos. Generally, we will allow finalists to use the Excellence Awards logo on promotional materials for 12 months from the announcement of finalists, but please contact us at events@realestate.com.au prior to any use.
Use and disclosure
The information you provide (which may include personal information such as names and images) may be used and/or disclosed to conduct and/or promote the Awards. We may also use or disclose your information for the purposes specified in our Privacy Policy
