What’s your career story at realestate.co.nz? Where did you start and where are you now? 

I started in July 2019, which seems like yesterday! I came from a banking background and had been working in Melbourne for 11 years. When the time came to return home, I saw this opportunity come up in Wellington and thought that was it for me. Wellington is where my family are and where my heart was. 

The company was very different back then, it was a lot smaller and less sophisticated. There were only four salespeople, so I was doing more of a national role that involved travelling the whole country. As we grew and took on more people, it became more geographically based and it also became a lot more sophisticated in terms of our systems and processes.  

I really loved the role from the beginning, and I became good at it as my time went on. I developed a lot of great relationships with agents, and I was exposed to so many different situations – like having champagne and oysters at an event one day and getting on an early flight the next morning for a meeting at head office in Auckland. It’s very different to the 9-5 mentality I’d come from in the banking world, but I like that I’m trusted to get on with what I need to do. I now have the pleasure of guiding others new starters, and helping people through some of the learnings that I made along the way.