Awards win on the local market

STAFF at Golden Plains’ First National Real Estate branch swept up awards during the organisation’s General Excellence and Marketing Awards for the Victorian and Tasmanian arms.

The ceremony took place at Melbourne’s Grand Hyatt earlier last month, during which the Bannockburn-based real estate agency was one of more than 20 branches to receive the gong.

With four awards across three categories, FN Bannockburn principal Tammy Miller said their wins highlighted the level of quality from the local business.

“It shows the dedication and commitment that our staff have to achieving the best possible results for our clients,” she said.

“They put a lot of time and effort into achieving great results for clients and I think it goes to show with the amount of awards they’ve achieved.”

Branch staff took home one of the eight The Elite awards in both the office and salesperson categories with agent Owen Sharkey receiving the latter.

Mr Sharkey also won the Diamond Award, the Best Marketing Campaign Award and the salesperson’s Highest number of exclusive listings/sales for lifestyle properties.

Director of sales Rene Pompe also received the Diamond Award while the branch won for the highest number of exclusive listings/sales of lifestyle properties in the office category.

With FNRE’s national awards set to take place during their annual convention in Hobart next month, Ms Miller said she hopes the team will continue to excel.

“Hopefully we’ll get some awards in for that as well,” she said. “The staff put everything into this. It’s great to see them acknowledged.

“We did well in the Victorian and Tasmanian awards last year and received quite a few awards but not as many as this year, I think.”