Harcourts realtor wins best practice award

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Harcourts realtor wins Australasian best practice award

31 July 2009: Successful South Island-based Harcourts business owner Tony Jenkins has won the most prestigious award at the 10th annual Australasian Real Estate Agency Best Practice Awards.

Mr Jenkins, who is the majority shareholder in eight Harcourts offices in the South Island, received The Australasian Real Estate Agency Best Practice Award for 2009 at an awards function in Queensland last week organised by Bestprac-tice.com.au to honour “the Australian and New Zealand real estate industry's true heroes”.

As their website explains The Australasian Real Estate Agency Best Practice Award is presented to an agency principal whose career has been distinguished by:
• The conduct of an estate agency business that is consistently successful in terms of market share, operating surplus and capital value;
• A commitment to the long term interests of the business' employees;
• A focus on customer service;
• Service to the real estate industry;
• An ongoing contribution to those within the business' local community who are less well off.

Mr Jenkins, who is the co-owner of Harcourts offices in Invercargill, Gore, Wanaka and Christchurch, says he is delighted to have been received such a prestigious accolade.

“I feel really proud to have received this award, which is a fantastic endorsement of a lot of hard work I’ve done both in and on my business over the years, the excel-lent efforts of my team and the fantastic support from my wife Bronwyn and son Tim,” he says.

“It’s a huge honour and very humbling to think that the things I’ve focused on put-ting in place in the small Harcourts Invercargill office, then in Gore and Wanaka and that I am now looking to introduce in the Christchurch offices I’ve recently be-come involved with have been recognised as being industry-leading in terms of best-practice.”

Mr Jenkins has been in the real estate profession for nearly 20 years and is a for-mer award-winning
sales consultant who was consistently in Harcourts New Zealand’s top 10 during his selling career – an impressive achievement given the comparatively low aver-age sale price in the Invercargill market where he commenced his real estate ca-reer.

One of the founding partners of Harcourts Invercargill office, which was established in 1991, Mr Jenkins has also opened an office in Gore, taken over the Wanaka of-fice and more recently entered the Christchurch market through purchasing shares in the St Albans office and latterly in Harcourts Holmwood Real Estate too, which has four offices in Christchurch and is also involved in a joint venture property management company in the city.

One of three successful realtors talking about ‘Growing in Tough Times’ during the 19th Annual Best Practice Principals' Retreat during which the awards function was held, Mr Jenkins has been the catalyst behind many significant fund raising events for local charities, including making significant (often anonymous) personal dona-tions and serving on the board of the Southland Crippled Children Society.

A former President of the Southland branch of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand, Mr Jenkins is a great believer in surrounding himself with experts who states with pride that he is living his dream every day.

Harcourts New Zealand CEO Bryan Thomson says Mr Jenkins is a fantastic role model within Harcourts.

“Not only does Tony have a strong foundation of industry knowledge, skills and ex-perience but he’s an astute businessman with a huge amount of passion and en-ergy and a big focus on ensuring his team have all the systems, training and sup-port they need in order to achieve results.”

“Not only has his approach in business proven successful but in addition he is hugely committed to his family and to supporting the community as best he can too, which are factors that I know have also contributed to him achieving this much-deserved award.”

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