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Real estate giant Harcourts announces global commercial joint venture
March 9th, 2010
Harcourts has announced today a new joint venture with NAI Global that will significantly expand the commercial reach and services Harcourts can offer in Australia and New Zealand.
As the latest arm of the Harcourts global empire, NAI Harcourts will take its first steps in Australia and New Zealand this year.
NAI Global is the world’s leading managed commercial network of 5,000 commercial property professionals and 325 offices in 55 countries throughout the world.
A joint venture between Harcourts and NAI Global will introduce a strong global platform of commercial real estate brokerage services to support corporate end users, investors and financial institutions locally and around the world.
NAI Harcourts have now appointed commercial real estate industry veteran Christopher Nicholl as CEO for the new venture. Mr Nicholl recently spoke of the company’s plans in Las Vegas at NAI Global’s annual convention and at Harcourts’ annual Business Leaders Conference.
He comes to NAI Harcourts with more than 20 years’ experience…
Tags: Business Leaders Conference, Chris Nicholl, global expansion, International, Jeffrey Finn, Mike Green, NAI Global, NAI Harcourts
Record month for Harcourts’ website
March 3rd, 2010Last month Harcourts’ New Zealand website attracted its highest ever number of unique visitors, Harcourts New Zealand CEO Bryan Thomson announced today.
According to the latest statistics from Nielsen Online Market Intelligence, in February the recently revamped Harcourts New Zealand website, www.harcourts.co.nz, received a record 201,384 unique visitors, despite February being the shortest month of the year.
Mr Thomson says the February 2010 figure, which was more than 20% up on the 165,919 unique visitors the Harcourts New Zealand website received in the same month last year, reflects Harcourts strong presence and performance in the New Zealand market and follow the introduction of significant design and functionality enhancements to the Harcourts New Zealand website late last year.
The latest statistics also again confirm the Harcourts New Zealand website is the most visited real estate brand’s website in the country – receiving over 40% more unique visitors than the next most visited real estate group’s website…
Top realtor appointed to help Harcourts grow in Central North Island
March 2nd, 2010Focused on growth, Harcourts New Zealand has appointed successful Waikato real estate industry identity Tony Renwick as Business Development Manager for the group’s Central Region, which encompasses the Waikato, Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty and parts of the Central Plateau and East Coast districts.
Harcourts New Zealand CEO Bryan Thomson says the successful realtor with 30-years’ experience has the credentials and contacts to make a big impact in Harcourts’ Central Region, where he is focused on assisting the group’s franchise owners to grow their businesses.
Tony Renwick, Harcourts' Central Region BDM
A Fellow of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand, Mr Renwick (pictured right) originally started out as a sales consultant, moved into branch management and then ownership of multi-disciplinary offices in three different real estate groups, including owning and operating the No. 1 Ray White office New Zealand, which he sold in 2006.
“While Harcourts is already the largest real estate group in…
Rental Property Focus (NZ, March 2010)
March 1st, 2010Please click on the link to read the latest Harcourts Rental Property Focus newsletter (March, 2010).
Harcourts’ Business Leaders Conference sets tone for big year
February 28th, 2010
The Harcourts Business Leaders Conference (BLC) 2010 was held last week and attracted more than 400 delegates from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, South Africa and China.
Harcourts is growing rapidly, with nearly 630 offices globally. To cultivate this growth, the company has a strong focus on innovation and communication in all facets of the business.
The Business Leaders Conference is designed for Business Owners and Managers throughout the Harcourts Group to analyse the year gone by and share information about what worked and what didn’t to make the year ahead an even bigger success. Included in the programme are interfirm comparisons, where individual businesses provide their financial information which is then used to compile reports which benchmark their business against the entire group and industry.
There were many other sessions spanning the three days, including business sessions on recruitment, maintaining profit post-recession, property management and leadership.
Harcourts Managing Director, Mike Green made several significant announcements, including…
Rural Property Focus (Autumn 2010)
February 26th, 2010Please click on the link to view the latest Harcourts Rural Property Focus newsletter. (Autumn 2010)
$500,000 raised for The Harcourts Foundation
February 24th, 2010More than $500,000 has now been raised for The Harcourts Foundation to donate to worthy causes in the community, Harcourts International Managing Director Mike Green has announced.
Mr Green says the aim was to reach the target of $500,000 in donations by the end of Harcourts’ Business Leaders Conference last week and it was great to have achieved that goal and to be able to share that amazing progress, made since the Foundation’s inception in mid-2008.
As he explains, The Harcourts Foundation was set up with the aim of providing financial support that helps, grows and enriches local communities, and in just over 18 months the significant milestone of raising half a million dollars in New Zealand and Australia has already been reached.
“These funds have been raised voluntarily by our dedicated Harcourts team members in Australia and New Zealand through various fundraising events, auctions and individual and office donations, with additional support coming from our business…
Keep up to date by downloading the latest ‘Harcourts News’ iPhone application!
February 23rd, 2010Harcourts has launched an iPhone application for its news centre at the company’s Business Leaders Conference last week.
Managing Director for Harcourts Mike Green said the company’s motto for 2010 is ‘one team – in touch’, which will be woven throughout all actions by all Harcourts employees.
“Technology is now making it easier and easier for us to communicate with our audience.
“Our team is constantly utilising this technology to ensure we are operating in all channels of communication,” Mr Green said.
“While last year we focused heavily on upgrading our websites and internal communication tools, this year we are focusing intensely on new media and social media,” he said.
The iPhone application is the latest communications technology to be developed as part of the yearlong campaign to keep both the Harcourts team and wider community updated with all exciting news and information.
The application was designed using the iSite platform by Harcourts’ Head of Marketing and Communications, David Martin and is…
Harcourts NZ CEO predicts more positive figures
February 23rd, 2010While across the industry historically low numbers of properties changed hands last month, Harcourts New Zealand CEO Bryan Thomson says Harcourts’ performed strongly and initial February figures suggest a more “encouraging” level of activity this month.
Mr Thomson says that according to feedback from within Harcourts, New Zealand’s largest real estate group, there is a good pool of buyers in the market and a larger volume of properties coming to the market now.
“So we expect to see February and March being significantly ahead of December and January. Initial February sales figures are certainly encouraging,” he says.
Reporting the group’s January statistics in the latest Harcourts MarketWatch newsletter Mr Thomson points out that while industry-wide the volume of sales of both residential and rural properties slumped last month, Harcourts had an increase in written sales compared to January 2009 in three of its five regions, reflecting growth in marketshare.
Most notable was a 22% increase in…
Harcourts MarketWatch (NZ, Feb 2010)
February 23rd, 2010Please click on the link to view the latest Harcourts MarketWatch newsletter. (NZ, February 2010)
