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NZ Real Estate Scholarship opens the door to more jobs
Last week marked the official launch of The New Zealand Real Estate Scholarship Programme across the country.
The programme is part of a national drive to offer job opportunities to those who have skills in business, wish to change career or are looking for a chance to retrain and ‘earn while they learn.’
Supported by New Zealand’s largest real estate company, Harcourts, select offices nationwide have jumped on the chance to upskill and provide employment for professionals who may have had a career in another industry such as teaching, nursing, in a trade, or maybe even the police force.
Harcourts Group Chief Executive, Hayden Duncan says this is an opportunity to provide careers to skilled professionals and to continue to extend the quality of the real estate industry.
“Lately there have been reports in the media about the lack of employment, and skilled professionals unable to gain employment in their…
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NAI Harcourts Market Leader (April 2012, NZ)
Read the latest from around New Zealand’s commercial real estate sector in the April NAI Harcourts Market Leader
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New industry regulation draws big crowd for Continuing Education
Harcourts first REAA Continuous Education Verifiable training at the Ellerslie Events Centre with 300 people in attendance (copyright Harcourts Group Ltd 2012)
The first group of agents attended the first Harcourts Continuing Education session on Monday at Auckland’s Ellerslie Events Centre.
The Events Centre was a mass with three hundred people as each attended their first 2.5 hours of Verifiable Continuing Education. The Harcourts group was the first of many real estate agents to start their 10 hours of verifiable continuing education required under the new Real Estate Agents Authority (REAA) practice rule.
As of 1 January, 2012 a new regulation was introduced by the REAA for all those holding real estate licenses to attend and complete 20 hours of continuing education each year as a requirement of all licensees to renew their real estate license.
Hayden Duncan, CEO of Harcourts Group, says the industry…
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Harcourts MarketWatch (March 2012, NZ)
For the latest reports on New Zealand’s regions read this month’s Harcourts MarketWatch here
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Positive Signs Emerge in Commercial Property Market
NAI Global’s latest Global Markets Report suggests that the US economy continues to make an anaemic recovery and the Asia Pacific property markets have inevitably been affected by the Euro Zone debt crisis.
“Beyond these headlines there was brighter news closer to home in the Australia and New Zealand markets,” said Chris Nicholl, Chief Executive Officer of commercial property group, NAI Harcourts.
“The rebuild in Christchurch has been estimated at NZ$30 billion, creating an economic stimulus in New Zealand, the likes of which have never been seen before”.
“The report notes that the tragic consequences of the earthquakes will lead to period of construction unheralded in proportion that gives rise to the prospect of up to ten years of new building,” Mr Nicholl said.
With the first of the new buildings now committed (the Harcourts / NAI Harcourts Grenadier Real Estate building) lender and occupier interest is growing.…
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TVNZ hosts Harcourts’ Hayden Duncan on the housing market
TVNZ’s Breakfast business host Nadine Ross-Chalmers talks to Hayden Duncan, the CEO of Harcourts, about the housing market.
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