Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats Shines at Quarterly Awards

Harcourts NSW recently held their Quarterly Awards function at Dalton House, Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, to celebrate both individual and office real estate achievements for the April to June 2010 quarter. Competing against a field of 40 other real estate offices and more than 100 sales consultants statewide, Deb Cummins from Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats scooped up the following awards for her outstanding real estate achievements.

Gold Achievement Award

Sapphire Pin

Top 10 Sales Consultant

Congratulations Deb!

Testimonial for Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats & Deb Cummins

                                                SOLD - Lindesay Street, Barrack Heights

"The service from Dougmal Harcourts was exemplary to the highest degree. The staff were always courteous and listened to what was asked and very helpful, nothing was of any bother or trouble. Deb Cummins has always displayed professionalism in all her dealings with us and allowed us to be in the loop of how the market and prospects were progressing. Deb, because of her approach and market knowledge was able to sell the house in half a day of being on the market. I congratulate Deb for her ability to keep her finger on the pulse and being right up there with what is happening in the market place. Once again, I would like to thank Dougmal Harcourts for their attentive approach, willingness to co-operate which made the stressful, emotional feeling easier to manage with selling the family home".
R. Woods

Over $20,000 More

SOLD - Hopetoun Street, Oak Flats

Testimonial for Deb Cummins:-

"Dear Deb,

I would like to thank you for the awesome job you did when selling our house in Oak Flats. You were so enthusiastic about the house and your opinion of the price the property would bring was spot on. You achieved over $20,000 more for us than the opinion the other agent gave and sold our home to the first buyer in the door. That was truly remarkable! Your guidance during the sale process removed all the pressure and made the sale an enjoyable process. Your honesty and integrity is second to none and I will certainly recommend you in the future. Thank you again Deb."

C. Smit

Testimonial from another Happy Client...

SOLD - Westwood Drive, Blackbutt

"When we decided to sell our house, we got a couple of valuations and was surprised at the difference in both. Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats provided us with a valuation that we thought was right on the money and 3 weeks later the house was sold at our target price.

We could not recommend Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats high enough, their staff and manner was of the highest standard."

H. Harrison

Award Success For Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats

Harcourts NSW recently held their Annual Awards function at Crown Plaza Coogee to celebrate both individual & office real estate achievements for 2009/2010. Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats scooped up a large number of awards for their outstanding real estate achievements. Some of the awards received were:-

Gold Achievement Award - Deb Cummins
Top Sales Consultant - 1st in the Illawarra - Deb Cummins
Top State Office - Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats - 3rd in NSW

CEO of Harcourts NSW, Chris Stephandellis, said "A special mention for Deb Cummins who consistently achieves outstanding results every quarter and every year."

Congratulations Deb for achieving NUMBER 1 in the ILLAWARRA for the SEVENTH time in a row and NUMBER 2 in NSW!

Harcourts NSW Quarterly Awards (October to December 2009)

Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats were centre stage at the recent Harcourts Quarterly Awards function, celebrating individual and office achievements for the October to December 2009 quarter.

OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR - Joyce Mantuano

BRONZE SALES ACHIEVEMENT - Jim Wells

SILVER SALES ACHIEVEMENT - Deb Cummins

GOLD PIN - Jim Wells

TOP 10 SALES CONSULTANTS - Deb Cummins

TOP SALES OFFICE (October) - Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats

TOP OFFICE REVENUE (October) - Dougmal Harcourts Oak Flats

Where to for the Housing Market in 2010?

There are a number of factors to consider when trying to look into the crystal ball and predict what is going to happen to residential real estate in the Illawarra in the next 12 months.

The primary driver at the moment would appear to be a wide spread shortage of property for sale. Coupled with slow land releases and a lack of major unit development at the the moment, basic supply and demand economies would indicate upwards pressure on prices.

As far as demand is concerned, there seems to be no shortage of buyers for property at the right price. Investors are starting to come back into the market, taking up some of the slack left by the drop off of first home buyers after the extra subsidies ended on 31 December 2009.

Rises in prices will only be modest however as several negative factors will have an impact. Firstly the 3 interest rate rises of recent times and the probability of another 25 basis points on 2 February 2010 after the Reserve Bank Board meets, along with some job insecurity in the region.

Overall, however I think that the market will be reasonably positive with modest price growth throughout the coming year.