THE NOVAK AGENCY VOTES 1 FOR DEE WHYFUNKY ACCOUNTANTS

| Date:20 July 2010

Enter 2010.

D.Y, you have never looked so good!.

Dazzling beaches, fab eateries, fancy fashion & sexy developments popping up everywhere, D.Y is looking mighty fine!

DY Real Estate is going through the roof with property prices increasing by as much as 15% p.a.

Don t feel u have to swap your Billabongs for the Louis Vuitton s just yet. Dee Why s still the relaxed burb it always was just with a splash of glam added.

In the past couple of years alone Dee Why has welcomed the stunning (ooooh we love it!) Dee Why Market in Oaks Avenue which possesses some of the best food on the Northern Beaches….yummy Pizza & Pasta, sensational coffee, incredible delicacies, fresh butcher & the crispest fruit & veg. – this is by far the place to be seen & shop!

Loads of luxury, state of the art apartments are going up encouraging a slightly more mature, asset rich demographic. On the other end of the scale it appears that Dee Why is now made up of a young, trendy population with 40% between the ages of 20-39 years of age. The majority of these young inhabitants seem to enjoy a rather sizeable income and many own their own property within the area.

This is a real family suburb with the benefit of having a surf beach right at the front door. Recently undergoing a make over, Dee Why beach has a fabulous playground for the kids & a boardwalk & grassed area combine to make the perfect spot for a Sunday picnic.

Hungry? Not in Dee Why you won t be with some 46 restaurants, cafes and bars, many overlooking the beach where you can grab anything from Pizza to Indian spices, there is certainly something for everyone!

A ton of sporting clubs including rugby clubs, golf clubs and of course surf clubs might just be the spot to work off those extra kg s.

A sensational mix of shops, including trendy boutiques and availability to your everyday items, makes Dee Why a highly desirable place to grab a dress, get your hair done, pick up some milk & bread & jump in to the gym.

The latest addition to Dee Why due to open on the 22th July 2010 is Dee Why Grand offering over 30 specialty stores. You can even live & work there with residential & commercial premises also on offer! We can t wait for it to open.

Dee Why s central location means that you can hop a bus and be in the CBD within a half an hour or catch a ferry from Manly Beach, just moments away & end up anywhere!

Just walking the streets of Dee Why you d be blind not to notice just how multi cultural Dee Why is. The fabulous mixture of races and religions introduces a wonderful flavour to Dee Why where many nationalities live together in a peaceful, safe & harmonious environment.

Located in a picture perfect position, it s irreplaceable position means many residential streets are a mere hop, skip and a jump to the world famous Dee Why Beach, Manly Beach & beyond.

Last but not least Dee Why is home to The Novak Agency!

We re happy to take full credit as to the REAL reason why Dee Why is the cool and trendy hub it is today…and maybe even share the platform with the many developers that saw the potential in this little piece of paradise we call Dee Why….

SMH reports Top 20 most expensive Sydney apartments JONATHAN CHANCELLOR July 10, 2010

Sales of prestige penthouses have slowed to a trickle across Sydney, although the land subdivision developer with a penchant for premium properties, Duncan Hardie, has offloaded his apartment in The Rocks this week.

It’s been bought by the newly appointed Tourism Australia chief, Geoff Dixon, and his wife, Dawn, for $7.75 million. It has the quintessential Sydney postcard view across Campbells Cove to the Opera House and up towards the Harbour Bridge.

The Hickson Road penthouse had been listed by estate agent Jaime Upton, who is bound for Harrods Estates in London. It spreads across two floors in the redeveloped 1912 Bond Metcalfe building. It last traded for $10 million in 2007.

// <![CDATA[// Late McDonald’s chief Charlie Bell was its first buyer, spending $8,525,000 in 2003 for the 330 sq m space after its refurbishment by Nettleton Tribe Architects for Tjeerd la Grouw’s Amstal Property Group.

At one point Hardie had intentions of eventually relocating to the penthouse planned for the Ashington development on Wylde Street, Potts Point, but, despite its $20 million off-the-plan sale, Ashington has abandoned its development.

The site remains unsold and the Office of State Revenue has lodged a caveat over the title in March, pursuant to land-tax issues.

Treasure Hunts

The chairman of Greenhill Caliburn, Peter Hunt, and his wife, Ellie, hold the mantle of the past year’s highest apartment sale, topping the list of Sydney’s top-20 unit sales and settlements for the recent $12.2 million settlement of their late-2008 off-the-plan purchase in the luxury Waillea apartment block opposite Queenscliff Beach at Manly.

It takes up the entire 600 sq m top floor, with 180 sq m of outdoor space. The 13-unit North Steyne project, designed by Susan Rothwell and then Sandberg Schoffel, has floor-to-ceiling glass and travertine-stone floors. It comes with a lap pool and entertainment area. I

t replaced three 1950s-style buildings for the North Steyne site initially consolidated by Bob Ell’s Leda Holdings. The Hunts bought from developer David Kavanagh before the building was out of the ground, with the record-setting sale secured through Alicia Ross-Ryan of Ray White Manly.

There are five units still in the developer’s ownership, with two exchanges expected soon through Ross-Ryan and Anthony Calacoci. The Hunts were trading up from their nearby North Steyne apartment, which sold last September to Basil and Diane Feros from Yellow Rock on delayed settlement terms for $4.42 million.

Gladswood tidings

About $9 million was secured earlier this month by oil trader Kirk Lazarus for his Gladswood Villas, Double Bay, harbour-front apartment through Bart Doff and Sally Hampshire at Laing+Simmons Double Bay.

The three-bedroom, four-bathroom unit, with 520 sq m of indoor/outdoor living space, is set over two levels on Gladswood Gardens. It had been decorated by Nicholas Tobias since being bought by Lazarus from Maxwell Hunt for $3.85 million in 2001.

It’s one of three within the European-inspired block developed by Ian Joye’s Coronet Investments. It first sold for $2,325,000 in 1990.

First things first

Just off the list, the Koundouris Group secured the first sale in its New South Head Road apartment development in Rose Bay last month. The four-bedroom penthouse apartment sold off the plan through Julian Hasemer of 1st City – Hasemer+Caldwell.

Eyles and in conjunction with Double Bay agent David Newgrosh for $6,565,000. The design has been done by David Katon with bespoke variations commissioned by the purchasers. The penthouse comes with parking for three vehicles. Prices for the remaining units start at $3.9 million.

Still on offer

Retired bookmaker-turned-financier Bob Blann has yet to sell his Elizabeth Bay apartment. It’s on the prestigious Billyard Avenue harbour-front. Blann, who bought last year at Palm Beach for $11,975,000, secured the 479 sq m sub-penthouse at a then-record $10.5 million in 2008, which Doff still expects to top.

Elizabeth Bay’s most recent sale was a reputed $12 million off-the-plan sale in the Belltrees redevelopment next to Arthur McElhone Reserve on Onslow Avenue. Construction works are now under way in the Wolanksi family’s project.

Just along the hillside strip, bulky-goods property developer Tony Benjamin sold his Darnley Hall, Elizabeth Bay, penthouse last year for $8.1 million to Paul Longmuir and Elaine Kwan.

Putting off the Ritz

The penthouse on top of the Ritz at Cremorne Point is still on the market with the mortgagees. Anything above $9 million would set a north shore record. The Milson Road penthouse, with four bedrooms and six bathrooms, spreads over 400 sq m.

It includes a rooftop terrace and garden with space to entertain 300 guests. It’s listed through McGrath agent Hamish Robertson in conjunction with Martin Schiller at Savills.

The mortgagee listed the apartment after the developer, Simon Symond, who was weighed down by a stalled shopping centre project at Toongabbie, lost control of it during the global financial crisis.

The penthouse, which took Symond a decade to develop, was completed for occupation in 1996.

Sienna dominates

The financial year’s top-20 apartment sales and settlements list is dominated by sales late last year in the Sienna development on Wolseley Road, Point Piper. The top price was $10.25 million for the apartment with the boat shed.

The unit was listed through LJ Hooker Double Bay agent Bill Malouf, who secured the bulk of the sales. The apartments fell into the control of financiers in December 2008, just before completion by the Bezzina Group.

Model Kristy Hinze and her husband, Jim Clark, were its highest-profile buyers. Also on the list were two apartments in the Wintergarden block in New South Head Road, Rose Bay, and two in Sydney Wharf, Pyrmont.

No small beer

Sydney’s most expensive penthouse also remains listed, with hopes of finding a buyer with close to $30 million. Occupying the 11th floor in the Bennelong building in Macquarie Street opposite the Opera House, it has been home to retired publican Cyril Maloney and his wife, Margaret.

It’s been listed through Michael Pallier of Raine & Horne Double Bay. The Maloneys bought the four units off the plan in 1999 for $13.9 million before converting them into a vast 715 sq m home.

Bennelong still best

Sydney’s priciest sale stands at $16.8 million in 2008 for a 12th-floor unit in the Bennelong block overlooking Circular Quay. It was the final part of plans by the Moran family – of Moran Health Care – to merge three units into a mega-apartment sprawling over 577 sq m after spending a total of $22.4 million during the past few years.

The former chairman of private bus operation Westbus, Jim Bosnjak, secured the most recent sale in the Toaster complex. His latest sale fetched $6.5 million, while his earlier offering changed hands for $6.96 million in April last year.

The initial sale was for $41,000 a square metre and the more recent at $32,000 a square metre. The adjoining fifth-floor units could become a 370 sq m residence, given Bosnjak sold both to the pie-making Allen family.

The top 20

Rank	$m	Address
1	$12.2	North Steyne, Manly
2	$12*	Onslow Ave, Elizabeth Bay
3	$10.25	Wolseley Rd, Point Piper
4	$9	Campbell Pde, Bondi Beach
5	$9*	Gladswood Gardens, Double bay
6	$8.5	Wolseley Rd, Point Piper
7	$8.25	Wolseley Rd, Point Piper
8	$8.25	Wolseley Rd, Point Piper
9	$8.2	Wolseley Rd, Point Piper
10	$8.1	Onslow Ave, Elizabeth bay
11	$8	Notts Ave, Bondi Beach
12	$7.75	Hickson Rd, The Rocks
13	$7.7	New South Head Rd, Rose Bay
14	$7.6	Wolseley Rd, Point Piper
15	$7.5	Wolseley Rd, Point Piper
16	$7.5	Wolseley Rd, Point Piper
17	$7.3	Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont
18	$7.3	Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont
19	$7.3*	Bower St, Manly
20	$6.75	New South Head Rd, Rose Bay

* price not officially recorded

Source: Newspaper reports and sale databases

WINNERS R GRINNERS – THE NOVAK AGENCY WINS BEST REAL ESTATE AGENCY – 2010 NORTHERN BEACHES BUSINESS AWARDS.

| Date:12 July 2010

Just as Hollywood has it s Oscars, T.V has its Emmys & Broadway has its Tonys…so too the Northern Beaches has it s awards – The 2010 Northern Beaches Business Awards. We are tickled (to say the least) that WE WON REAL ESTATE AGENCY OF THE YEAR!!!

We know why, do you?

WHAT ARE WE DOING THAT SETS US APART FROM THE REST?

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

We are not your average real estate agency! We are different to all the others with everything that we do. You may have noticed this from surfing our site?

At The Novak Agency, we think outside the square. Our marketing, our signboards, our copy, our design, our website, our headquarters & our staff are paramount & unique in every way.

We make a point of finding the very best people to employ, all very good looking too!

Marketing…clearly stands out, looks sensational, is fresh, unique & entertaining

Advertising…we get the best spots including the back page of The Manly Daily every single week

Signboards…not your average sign board. We do ours differently to all the other agents. These sit 5ft x 2.5ft and seriously standout

24 hour live support…serviced by an actual person. You can call us 24/7, we never sleep! We d never let a potential sale slip through the cracks.

SMS interactive marketing campaigns

Social Media…you name it, we re on it!

Email newsletter…Highly effective & highly entertaining. A fantastic marketing tool with over 5000 interactive subscribers weekly!

Sunday open houses…yes, we do Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday opens. We said we never sleep.

Buyer follow up…A day wouldn t go past where prospective purchasers on our database would not comment that we are the most pro active agent on the Northern Beaches with follow ups!

Weekly written seller update… superior reporting, keeping you in the loop.

E-contracts…Ever wanted a contract for a property? We have them available 24/7 on our website. So easy.

Letterbox drops…some may say they re old fashioned, fact is they work!

Novak Headquarters…5 star customer service. Glamorous, chic, seriously visual and extremely friendly. Also, the best coffee in town!

More? Call 1300 4 NOVAK or 8978 6888. Too shy to call? Surf our site www.thenovakagency.com

If youre kicking yourself that you missed out on voting for us for the Northern Beaches Business Awards, its ok!… you have the opportunity to vote for us for The Manly Daily 2010 Business Achiever Awards!! Its really easy and you could win a fabulous prize just for voting…. wowwwwwwwwww.

1. Go to www.businessachieverawards.com.au

2. Click on Vote for a Business

3. Register & select The Manly Daily on the left hand side of the screen, you?ll find THE NOVAK AGENCY in the Real Estate category.

Confuscious say Good fortune comes to those who vote for us!

A HUGE THANK YOU TO YOU FOR BELIEVING IN US!!!

9 YEARS YOUNG… & THE NOVAK AGENCY JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER WITH AGE.

| Date:5 July 2010

Happy birthday to us!

Grab the bubbly, crack open a coldie & pump up the music cause it s time to paaaaaarty…Celebrate good times come on. The Novak Agency turns 9.

So, what have we been doing the past 9 years we hear u ask?

Listing, selling & managing possibly the most amount of property of the Northern Beaches, setting ourselves apart from everyone else…have u seen our branding?, winning truck loads of awards, decorating our seriously sexy, ultra chic office, working 24/7 & never sleeping, perfecting our award winning website & having a bunch of fun along the way…woo hoooooooo. May the next 9 years be as successful & fun as the last…hip, hip hoorayyyyyyyyyy.

Thank you to YOU for your support, encouragement & loyalty over the past 9 years, we feel very loved & honored to be a part of such a wonderful community.

DON T LIKE UR PM? WE VE GOT THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS. GOOD ONES R HARD 2 FIND!

| Date:29 June 2010

Making promises they never keep & not having ur best interests @ heart?

..Sound like ur PM?

No, we re not referring 2 Rudd or even Gillard, we re referring to UR Property Manager.

R they @ your beck & call 24 hours/7 days a week?

Do they return your calls & do what they say when they say?

Is your property in bad shape? R u?

Give The Novak Agency a go…

We don t manage the most amount of rental properties on the Northern Beaches out of sheer luck!

Call us 8978 6888 or 1300 4 NOVAK – 24/7 – we never sleep.