James Wester | Virtual Property Expert

I’ve been extremely hard at work since the restructuring of Pacific Octane and my primary focus has been on the US market with a project called Get Outdoors Media as well as looking at my options here in the .au market.  I was fortunate enough a couple of years ago to meet an innovative and passionate journalist that was a pioneer in delivering a fresh information and sales platform to the real estate market.  Mark Tonelli, owner and producer of Real Estate News on Sky Business Channel, is extremely passionate about delivering a story for informational purposes properly.  He does whatever it takes to assure the story is a story in itself and takes the viewer on a journey from beginning to end.

When I met Mark back a couple of years ago, I told him what Pacific Octane did and what my expertise was in regard to domain names and the online space.  He found it very interesting and knew that there was a parallel to the real estate market, but not his real estate market of savvy investors that are the core of his show’s demographics.  A short while after the MirandaKerr.com.au story broke out and the super journo’s came out of the wood work to do some intensive and professional *sarcasm* investigating to report it, a domain name sold in auction on NetFleet.com.au that would change the landscape of the .au space and propel it into the mainstream media.  The domain name that got more traction in the mainstream media than hardware.com.au, which was purchased by Woolworths, was when the switched on property guru from the Central Coast of NSW bought investmentproperty.com.au for a cool $125k.

Mark’s first question was “Did you know that it would sell that high and do you think it’s worth the money?”  My reply was “No, I had it pegged to sell for up to $60k or possibly $70k and I felt that the domain name was worth $150k to an end user.  In my opinion, the guy that purchased it is super switched on and now has a platform for personal use to corner the market on his competitors as well as possibly create a stage for State to State dominance of other real estate investors.”

After a 2 hour meeting, Mark has invited me on to do an interview on Real Estate News as the Virtual Property Expert.  I am extremely grateful and excited to get to share my knowledge on a platform such as Real Estate News on Sky Business Channel and hopefully, with fingers and toes crossed, the show gets enough feedback from his viewers to invite me on again.  I have a feeling that once property investors see the returns that one can equate to a block of land, such as what I can validate by my domain name sale of sydneyfinancialplanning.com.au which I registered for $22.10 and sold for $3,300.00, making it a 14,832% roi or equate to an investment property, such as what I can validate by my domain name sale of taxcalculator.com.au, which I bought in an after market auction for $1,500 and sold for $13,200 making a roi of 780%, that they’ll be emailing for some questions to be answered.

To know that I am going to be in the company of Sam White, CEO of Ray White and Loan Market, is a pretty nice feeling.

I am launching a new brand on VirtualPropertyExpert.com.au in anticipation of this interview and hopefully the success in which it will bring for the .au domain name industry as a whole and in particular, for me to possibly even have a permanent place on Real Estate News on the Sky Business Channel as the Virtual Property Expert.

I will have more information on the date that the show will air soon.