For sale, auction, for lease and sold boards in the sizes agencies use. Printed, cut and drilled in Ravenhall, on Corflute for one campaign or ACM where the board must last several.
A property board has one job: be readable from a moving car and still hold up close on inspection day. That drives how it is built. Large clean type for the headline, photography that has not gone muddy, agency branding matching every other board in the window, and a rider strip that can go on the day a result comes in.
Made by Melbourne Trade Signs, a large-format print and signage company on Unit 6/43 Orbis Drive, Ravenhall VIC 3023, in Melbourne’s west. Printed in-house and installed Australia-wide. Phone 0415 743 691.
Material is the first real decision. Corflute is light, cheap and perfectly adequate for a six-week campaign, and it goes on a fence with cable ties in minutes. Aluminium composite costs more, stays flat, holds colour longer and survives being moved between listings, so it earns its keep on frames that get reused. Agencies running volume usually stock both.
Everything is printed at Orbis Drive in Ravenhall, so a single urgent board for a Saturday auction is as workable as a quarterly restock across an office. There is no minimum order. Where an agency wants a standard set held to one template, we keep the artwork on file so the next batch matches the last instead of drifting a shade each time.
Agencies order the same handful of items over and over. Knowing which suits which listing saves money on the campaigns that never needed a premium board.
| Board type | Material | Mounting | Typical service life |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo board, one campaign | 5 mm Corflute | Cable ties, or a stake frame | One campaign, sometimes two |
| Photo board, reusable | 3 mm ACM | Bolted to a timber or steel frame | Several years with care |
| For lease board | ACM or Corflute | Screwed to a wall or hoarding | Months to years |
| Rider strip | Matched to the board | Bolted across the top | Reused until branding changes |
| Overlay sticker | Self-adhesive vinyl | Applied over an installed board | Single use |
| Directional arrow | 5 mm Corflute | Stake, pole or cable ties | A weekend of inspections |
If your office runs a frame or post system, work to the frame opening rather than a nominal size, and allow for the bolt positions. Send one board for us to measure.
Most agency orders combine a board, something to hold it up, and a way to update it when the campaign moves on. These are the parts of that set.
The volume option for listings with a defined campaign length. Light enough for one person to fix to a fence, cheap enough to treat as consumable, and printed both sides where a corner block means the board is seen twice.
Aluminium composite suits boards that go back on a frame for the next listing. It stays flat in heat, will not crease, and takes bolt holes without tearing. Over several campaigns it works out cheaper per use than replacing Corflute.
A portrait alongside the property shot is standard practice. Supply the headshot as a high-resolution original rather than a crop lifted from a web page, because a soft face reproduced 300 mm tall undermines the whole board.
Narrow panels bolting across the board to read AUCTION, SOLD, UNDER OFFER or a date. Ordering a set of riders with the boards is far quicker than chasing one the morning after a result lands.
Self-adhesive vinyl printed to sit straight over part of a board already installed. Useful for a same-day SOLD when nobody wants to take the board down, and they peel away with it at the end.
Boards are drilled to suit timber post kits, steel frames or your existing hardware. Tell us the hole centres and we match them. Corner holes for cable ties sit well in from the edge so a windy week does not tear them out.
A suburban office running a steady list orders in batches, mixing full-size photo boards with a stock of template boards ready for the next listing. Riders get ordered by the dozen because they are always needed at short notice. Holding artwork on file means a Wednesday listing has a board standing on the fence by the weekend.
Auction work is deadline-driven and unforgiving. The board goes up weeks out, the AUCTION rider comes off and a SOLD goes on within hours of the hammer, and directional arrows appear on the Saturday morning. Ordering the arrows and riders alongside the main board is what removes the scramble on the day it actually matters.
Commercial for lease boards stay up far longer than residential ones, often a year or more on a vacant tenancy, and that changes the sums entirely. ACM on a proper frame, fewer photographs, much larger contact details, and text sized to be read from across a main road rather than from the footpath a few metres away.
Rental departments need small repeatable boards and inspection signage in volume, week in and week out through the year. Developers need larger site boards showing the finished building, which is closer to hoarding work than to a listing board. Both benefit from a template locked down once, so every order after that comes back identical.
Most agencies have a template already, from head office or whoever printed the last batch. Send it and we work inside it. If it is a flattened image, we rebuild it.
Setting up a new template from scratch is fine. We lay one out and proof it before printing. Once signed off it stays on file, and later listings need only the address and photos.
Boards are printed, cut and drilled in Ravenhall, so an urgent rider before an auction weekend does not travel through anyone else first. Deadlines drive this category, so give us the date and we will tell you whether it is realistic. Pickup in business hours, delivery Victoria-wide, freight interstate on restocks.
It comes down to how many times the board gets used. For a residential campaign of six to eight weeks, 5 mm Corflute does the job at a fraction of the cost.
Aluminium composite makes sense when the board goes back on a frame for the next listing, or a tenancy sits vacant a year. It stays flat, holds colour longer and takes repeated bolting.
Skin tones are built largely from magenta, and magenta inks are among the first to shift under ultraviolet light. A face looks washed out while the logo beside it still looks solid.
A UV laminate slows this and is worth adding on long or north-facing campaigns. A properly exposed original headshot also gives the print more to work with.
Cable ties through corner holes into a paling or wire fence is the fastest method and the most common on Corflute. We set the holes in from the edge so wind cannot pull them through.
Post and frame systems bolt through on hole centres your office uses. Send the measurements or one old board and every new one lines up. For height work, our crews install.
Yes. Boards sharing a layout but differing in photo, name and contact details are straightforward as a batch. We build a master template, drop the variable content into each version, and proof the set as one PDF so names can be checked against faces.
Do it in batches rather than singly, since the setup carries across the run.
Both. Riders print on the same material as the board so the colours match, drilled to your existing hole centres, and they get ordered in quantity because they are needed at no notice.
Overlay stickers are self-adhesive vinyl printed to sit over part of an installed board. They go on in the field in a minute, which suits a late result.
A Corflute board on a fence usually still looks presentable after a couple of months, which covers most residential campaigns. Past that, exposure decides it, and full afternoon sun ages a board far faster than a shaded frontage.
ACM boards on frames hold up for years. In practice a reprint gets triggered by a rebrand, a new number or a change of agent, not the material failing.
Still deciding? See our sign and banner sizes guide.
The base material behind most single-campaign property boards. Fluted polypropylene, printed both sides, cut and drilled to whatever hole centres your frames use.
See the detail →Aluminium composite for boards living on frames and going back out for the next listing. Flat, weather-resistant and built to be reused.
See the detail →Portable footpath frames for open for inspection days. Folds into the boot and stands up outside the property on a Saturday morning.
See the detail →Browse the full list on our A–Z of everything we print, or see how this fits into signage in Melbourne.
Send the listing details and your agency template. We quote inside two business hours and will tell you straight if the date is tight.