NZ’s largest real estate group announces its Number One

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NZ’s largest real estate group announces its Number One

Wednesday 1 June 2011, 1235pm Press Release: Harcourts

Harcourts acknowledged the successes of its top performing Sales Consultants at the Harcourts National Awards 2010/11 ceremony held at the Rotorua Energy Events Centre on Wednesday, 25th May.

From the 80-100 regional Top Sales Consultant finalists, awards were given to the Top 20 in the country, with only one winning the prize as the Harcourts Top National Sales Consultant. Albany Sales Consultant Matty Ma took the title of Number One Sales Consultant in Harcourts’ Northern region a few weeks earlier.

Off the back of her Regional award Matty says she is very proud and each award is like the beginning of a new journey.

“It really does feel great to win this year and for me it is an exciting experience being the best of the best. Winning this award is a something I know every agent wishes to have their name on one day. To give credit where its due; I always tells clients my team and I are only a small part of the stars at Harcourts Blue Sky, which there are many of, all shining brightly,” says a humble Matty Ma. Matty knows the market has changed and says strong agents will show their worth through hard work now, seeing the results later.

“With my experience and having a wide range of properties on the market, I believe the market has changed. It’s a tougher market than previously but I think it is easier for stronger agents to survive, as they prospect harder in preparation for the next market change to arrive.” “I think now is a great time to prospect harder, and be more active, to prepare for the changes ahead,” Ma comments.

Mrs Ma, from Harcourts Albany, contributed to her success of being National Number One Sales Consultant with an impressive $225 million dollars in settled sales narrowly beating second place getter Alison Aitken from Christchurch City.

Harcourts Group NZ CEO, Hayden Duncan says he is very proud of Mrs Ma’s hard work and continual development of client relationships.

“Matty continues to make new, and develop existing business partnerships, always ensuring the all possibilities are investigated for her clients.”

“Matty has shown us that her knowledge, skills as a negotiator and hard work not only provide the best results for her clients, but win her awards too,” says Harcourts Group NZ CEO Hayden Duncan.

“Our consultants have a drive and determination to do their best in all they do and Matty has gone for it this year coming out on top as number one.”

In 2009/10 Ma was named No. 3 in Harcourt’s New Zealand and 4th in Harcourts Group International and this year’s award is her sixth in her 13 year career in the real estate industry.

Other 2010/11 winners were: in Number Two National Sales Consultant Christchurch City’s Alison Aitken, also inducted into the Harcourts Wall of Fame for her service to the company; Number Three National Sales Consultant Shaun Cosgrave from Hamilton Glenview who also took out Top Rural Sales Consultant and Top Auction/Tender Lister for Harcourts NZ.

The Harcourts New Zealand Top 20 Sales Consultants for 2010/2011 are:

1. Matty Ma – Albany 2. Alison Aitken – Christchurch City 3. Shaun Cosgrave – Hamilton Glenview 4. Charlotte Marshall – Eden/Epsom 5. Cameron Bailey – Papanui 6. Glenn Green – Bell Block 7. Anton Huang – Howick 8. Mary Turnbull – Papanui 9. Todd Cooper – Orewa 10. David Hibbins – Birkenhead 11. Mike Ledger- Upper Hutt 12. Karl Vermeulen – Howick 13. Trevor Hyland – Whangaparaoa 14. Jackie Mark – Devonport 15. Sue Roberts – Belfast 16. David Nightingale – St Heliers 17. Maree Newman – Havelock North 18. Lynn Lockhart – Papakura Rural 19. Andy Cooling – Paremata 20. Elizabeth Tingle – Orewa

The Harcourts New Zealand Top Commercial Sales Consultants for 2010/2011 are: 1. Paul Sanford – Rotorua 2. Grant Magorian – Christchurch City Business Brokers 3. Andrew Bruce – Takapuna

The Harcourts New Zealand Top Rural Sales Consultants for 2010/2011 are: 1. Shaun Cosgrave – Hamilton Glenview 2. Lynn Lockhart – Papakura Rural 3. Kevin Deane – Morrinsville

The Harcourts New Zealand Top Property Managers for 2010/2011 are: 1. Tracey Edwards – Accommodation Centre Ltd 2. Lizzie Simanke – Cooper and Co Real Estate Ltd 3. Trent Godfrey – Holmwood Property Management

The Harcourts New Zealand Rising Star for 2010/2011 was: Savita Robinson – Johnsonville

The Harcourts New Zealand Top Auction/Tender Lister for 2010/2011 was: 1. Shaun Cosgrave – Hamilton Glenview 2. Toney Kerapa – Hamilton Glenview 3. Andrew Duncan – Johnsonville

The Harcourts New Zealand Top National Exclusive Lister for 2010/2011 was: 1. Tony Sands – Ashburton 2=. Glenn Green – Bell Block 2= Cameron Bailey - Papanui Harcourts has over 1823 sales consultants in New Zealand and over 180 offices. Harcourts International Ltd exceeded a record 20.4 billion in sales for the 2010 financial year.

Harcourts has the highest national preference for real estate agencies amongst homeowners in New Zealand (ACNielsen March 2009). Harcourts has the highest top of mind awareness for real estate agencies amongst homeowners in New Zealand (ACNielsen March 2009).

Harcourts Rural currently holds a strong market share in Rural and Country Living sales with a team of over 130 Rural Sales Consultants operating from 87 rural Harcourts Offices throughout New Zealand.

www.harcourts.co.nz is New Zealand's most visited real estate group website with over 200,000 unique visitors within June 2010 alone (Nielsen/NetRatings).

Harcourts is the only real estate group in New Zealand which can both email and 'text' message notification of new listings and open homes to the public (to any text capable Telecom mobile phone). Harcourts is the first real estate group in Australasia to offer a website designed specifically to help sell your property. Bookmark this site and use it as your one stop research guide to the real estate market. If you’re thinking of buying, selling or relocating, this site will show you recent sales and current listings both in your area and throughout Australia and New Zealand. See www.infolink.harcourts.net

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