Family business works through to make 20 year milestone
Harcourts’ Grenadier Accommodation Centre is 20 years
Business owner of Harcourts’ Grenadier Accommodation Centre, Patricia Bowden, will celebrate 20 years as a Harcourts franchise owner today.
Patricia started in real estate over 30 years ago, with the now non-operational Jolliffe’s Real Estate in Christchurch, as part of the administration team. Quickly getting the bug for real estate, she moved into Property Management within 9 months of being there.
Employed by Harcourts since 1990, Patricia had a belief in Property Management and knew Harcourts were going where she wanted to go, so decided that business ownership was for her. Patricia says she believed in Property Management right from the start and knowing there was a demand for it, knew it wouldn’t fail.
The next year, on the 15th October 1991, Patricia became a Harcourts Franchisee.
“When I first started, we had no properties. Six weeks after I bought the Harcourts Franchise,…
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Renovators Star Takes Real Estate by Storm
Dynamic young real estate sales consultant, Jarrad O’Connell recently took five month off from his role with Harcourts Seaford to compete on Channel 10’s hit reality series, The Renovators.
After a truly life-changing experience on the reality television series which wrapped up last night, Jarrad has returned to his every-day life and is confident that his experience on the show will allow his real estate career to thrive.
“Being on The Renovators was an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This experience really changed my life and I learnt so much during my time on the show.
“Above all, I’ve learnt confidence in myself. After being on the show, I’ve realised that I really can do the things that I put my mind to. I’m now confident in who I am and what I can do.
As well as growing his confidence, Jarrad believes that he has also developed his professional skills…
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Harcourts Continues to Grow
Due to unprecedented growth, international real estate group, Harcourts is in the process of selling its current headquarters in Brisbane before moving into a larger, purpose built support office in mid-2012.
The marketing of Harcourts’ current headquarters, located in Navigator Place in the Brisbane suburb of Hendra, will commence on Friday the 14th of October through Phil Murray of Harcourts Clayfield and Sam Higgins of CBRE.
Construction of Harcourts’ new corporate head office, located in the new Trade Coast Central commercial precinct, is due to commence later this month and will be complete by June/July of 2012.
Harcourts’ new corporate headquarters will offer spacious work areas spread across two levels, and will include state of the art office facilities including two training rooms, a film studio and ’Google’ inspired areas for the team to break in.
Harcourts International Managing Director, Mike Green states that this move is necessary…
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NAI Harcourts Market Leader (October 2011, NZ)
View the latest NAI Harcourts Market Leader for October 2011 featuring an article from BNZ’s Chief Economist Tony Alexander.
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Harcourts MarketWatch (October 2011,NZ)
View the latest Harcourts MarketWatch for October 2011
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Private Sale vs. The Use of an Estate Agent
Wanting to sell your own home and avoid paying the high cost of commission to an estate agent? It sounds like a great plan, but think again…There are a number of challenges that should be considered when partaking on this much-harder than anticipated endeavour and when all has been said, it appears that the benefits of using an agent far out-weigh the commission fee at the end of the day.
There is far more than meets the eye when selling a home privately. “The first challenge right from the very start is establishing a price at which to sell the property. With no experience in this field, little knowledge of what similar homes in the same area are going for and lacking objectivity on the matter- this first obstacle is a tough one to tackle” comments Richard Gray, CEO of Harcourts South Africa.
Outlining some of the major…
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