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RE/MAX SWEEPS TOP SPOT IN 2008 PROPERTY PROFESSIONAL AWARDSCAPE TOWN (July 20)- Port Elizabethan Jacoba (Kobie) Potgieter is the new Nedbank Property Association Property Professional of the Year for 2008. The announcement was made at the Arabella Hotel in Hermanus last night after the ten nominees selected nationally for the industry’s most coveted title were interviewed by a panel of judges. The awards are open to members of the Property Association and are based on an entry level of annual sales of more than R10 million (rural areas R7,5 million) or 40 sales in the 12-month period ending February 2008. Potgieter, who has woven a broad tapestry of international and local awards, the most recently being the highest commission earner among RE/MAX’s International stable for the first quarter of this year, is the broker owner of Port Elizabeth’s RE/MAX Independent estate agency. Under Potgieter the agency has raced from a sales staff of five in 2003 to a current crew of 58 agents and a commanding market share. The award is also heavily based on an agent’s community and social involvement, which in Potgieter’s case involves sponsoring of primary and secondary schools and fund raising events for feeding and clothing orphaned babies and the delivery of food packages to old-age homes and indigent people. Potgieter also received a Young Lions award in 2005 and is a nominee for South Africa’s Most Influential Business Woman of the Year for 2008. RE/MAX’s recent rise to the country’s most powerful residential real estate group this year was also emphasised by its sales staff filling three of the top ten nominations for this years Property Professional awards. The full nominees were Kobie Potgieter (RE/MAX Independant Properties), Marianda De Villiers (Estpro Consultants), Michael Stephens (Seeff Properties), Roma Naudé (RE/MAX – Jacaranda), Sue Du Preez (Pam Golding Properties Pty Ltd), Carina Nieuwoudt (Realty 1 IPG), Gerhardt Jooste (Prosperito), Daisy Govender ( RE/MAX Dolphin Realtors), Elna Maree (Agripro). Partnerships :Allen and Karen Davies (Intro Real Estate) Paul and Roz Everitt and Chas Everitt International and Michelle Taylor RE/MAX was further honoured by marketing “whizzkid” Jeanne van Jaarsveldt, RE/MAX finance and marketing director, being honoured with an industry Movers and Shakers Award and Douglas Reavenscroft, broker owner of RE/MAX Platinum being included in the Young Lions honours. Movers & Shakers were Jeanne van Jaarsveldt RE/MAX Southern Africa: Mark Beckett (Bond Choice), John Cooper( Chas Everitt Int. Property Group), Rhys Dyer (ooba), Dennis Dykes (Nedbank Limited), Linda Erasmus (Fine & Country), Adrienne Hersch (Adrienne Hersch Properties CC), Lydia Monyamane Makgadis (Properties & Development), Ian Slot (Seeff Atlantic Seaboard CBD & City Bowl), Bruce Swain (Leapfrog Property Group), The Young Lions were Douglas Ravenscroft (RE/MAX Platinum), Colin Green (Rabie Property Group), Liesel Greyvenstein (Greyven Steins Nortier), John Hart (Serengeti Golf and Wildlife Estate), Gerhard Kotzé (ERA South Africa), Milton Koumbatis (Miltons Matsemela Inc.) Ralph Rabie (Parcor), Cyrus Rogers (The Home Channe) Martin Schultheiss (Homenet) and Michelle Swart (Velvet Square).
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