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Harcourts NSW Displays Generous Spirit
Last weekend, a team of Harcourts New South Wales and Dougmal Harcourts real estate agents completed The Sydney Bridge Run in order to raise much needed funds for charity.
The Sydney Bridge run is a nine kilometre run taking in some of Sydney’s iconic sights including the Harbour Bridge, Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, Circular Quay, and the Royal Botanic Gardens before finishing at the Sydney Opera House. Over 35,000 people participated in this year’s Sydney running festival.
The Harcourts New South Wales team raised nearly $2,000 by hosting a charity auction at the group’s Quarterly Awards ceremony and other fundraising activities held over the last two of months.
These funds will be donated to The Harcourts Foundation which was established in 2008 with the purpose of providing support that helps, grows and enriches our communities.
As of September 2011, the Harcourts Foundation has raised well over $1.2 million dollars for…
Tags: charity, Chris Stephandellis, fundraising, Harcourts New South Wales, The Harcourts Foundation
Harcourts NSW Announce New CEO
International real estate group, Harcourts is pleased to announce the appointment of Sadhana Smiles in the role of Chief Executive Officer of Harcourts New South Wales following the decision of current CEO, Chris Stephandellis to relinquish his position.
With a career built upon strong leadership and management, Ms Smiles has held several senior management positions with some of the real estate industry’s most significant organisations in both Melbourne and Sydney.
To date, Ms Smiles has worked with teams of up to 250 sales agents and 100 property managers and has successfully implemented innovative training programs, performance management and business systems, database and client relationship systems, and implemented pioneering technology concepts – all of which were designed to achieve sustainable growth and brand development.
Ms Smiles is also the founder of a not-for-profit organisation, Links Fiji, and the winner of the 2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers Franchise Woman of the…
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Harcourts NSW Celebrates at Superstars Event
The stars of real estate group, Harcourts came out to shine last week for the company’s New South Wales state conference, Superstars 2011.
Held at the St George Motor Boat Club in San Souci, the half-day event attracted almost 100 Harcourts delegates from across New South Wales.
Harcourts New South Wales Chief Executive Officer, Chris Stephandellis was proud of the turnout and of the event overall.
“It was fantastic to see so many people from the Harcourts New South Wales team in attendance and to listen to some fantastic speakers,” said Mr Stephandellis.
Three key speakers addressed the group including Pat Mesiti, who is highly effective communicator and most notably an income acceleration coach. The second speaker was Chris Gilmour – in 2010 The Chris Gilmour Team was nominated for the REIQ’s Real Estate Agent of the Year award due to their exceptional service, outstanding results and their ongoing commitment…
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Moving to the Country?
The New South Wales government has announced a $7,000 Regional Relocation Home Buyers Grant, commencing 1st July 2011. The scheme will provide applicants with a one-off payment of $7,000 to assist them with the cost of relocating from their metropolitan home to a regional home (New South Wales Office of State Revenue, 2011).
In order to qualify for this grant the property purchased needs to be outside the Sydney metropolitan area. Metropolitan areas mean the local government areas including; Sydney Metropolitan, Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Gosford, Wyong, Wollondilly, Wollongong and Newcastle.
To be eligible for the $7,000 Regional Relocation Grant, the following criteria apply:
- All applicants must be natural persons and must not purchase the regional home in his or her capacity as a trustee
- At least one applicant must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident as at the completion date of the regional home purchase
- All applicants must
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Harcourts NSW Recruiting New CEO
Harcourts is currently recruiting for a Chief Executive Officer to lead their operations in New South Wales following the decision of current CEO, Chris Stephandellis to relinquish the role to pursue his other business and lifestyle interests
Bryan Thomson, Harcourts Head of Real Estate Operations, states that this role is crucial for Harcourts’ ongoing growth and development within Australia.
“This is a critical role within Harcourts and will be responsible for leading the growth and development of our business throughout New South Wales.
“This role will focus on driving internal growth through the development of Harcourts’ existing business by coaching and mentoring our business owners as well as the recruitment of new talent and offices within New South Wales,” Mr Thomson said.
Mr Thomson believes this role is the perfect opportunity for a talented real estate professional to join one of the industry’s leading groups.
“This role is a career-defining…
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Harcourts NSW Run For Charity
A team of Harcourts New South Wales and Dougmal Harcourts real estate agents have entered The Sydney Bridge Run on Sunday the 18th of September.
The Sydney Bridge is a 9km run taking in some of Sydney’s beautiful sights including the Harbour Bridge, Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, Circular Quay, and Royal Botanic Gardens before finishing at the Sydney Opera House.
All money raised will be donated to the Harcourts Foundation. The Harcourts Foundation was established in 2008 with the purpose of providing support that helps, grows and enriches our communities.
As of May this year, The Harcourts Foundation has raised over $1.2 million for charities across Australia and New Zealand.
Harcourts New South Wales Chief Executive Officer, Chris Stephandellis said, “this is a great opportunity for the Harcourts and Dougmal Harcourts team to get together and to support The Harcourts Foundation and have some fun doing so”.
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