The region’s top performing independent agencies and individuals have come together for the 14th annual Australasian Real Estate Results Awards (ARERAs).
Hosted by industry coaching and training body Real Estate Results Network (RERN), this year’s ARERAs were more hotly contested than ever, with a large number of nominations received from across Australia and New Zealand.
Winners from 36 award categories were announced at a ‘Bollywood’ themed gala event, held at Merivale’s The Ivy Ballroom.
The event was timed to coincide with KickStart – RERN’s annual conference, which took place over the two days prior at Sydney Hilton Hotel.
A total of 24 agencies were represented amongst the winners, taking out awards for categories that included Agency of the Year, Agent of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, and Rising Star of the Year.
Real estate industry expert Michael Sheargold heads up RERN, the collective designed to provide specialist industry training, support, mentorship and resources for real estate agencies.
Mr Sheargold said 2020 had seen a huge number of extremely high-quality nominations and that the winning margins were very tight.
“This year, we received an exceptionally high number of nominations in each of the categories, which made the judging process extremely difficult, particularly with the standard of competition being raised even higher than in previous years,” Mr Sheargold said.
“Our member agencies and their teams really brought their A-games in responding to the challenging conditions of the market, with customers demanding a higher level of service than ever before.
Mr Sheargold congratulated all of the winners on their individual achievements and said he joined the rest of the network in celebrating their performance.
“All our winning agents and agencies should be proud of this incredible achievement,” Mr Sheargold said.
Real Estate Results Network (RERN) represents more than 1400 principals and agents who throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Winners from the 2020 Australasian Real Estate Results Awards (ARERAs) were:
| Category | Winner Name | Winner Agency |
| Agency of the Year (Metro) | Cunninghams | |
| Agency of the Year Regional | Lugtons | |
| Boutique Agency of the Year Metro | Kollosche | |
| Boutique Agency of the Year Regional | Yeppoon Real Estate | |
| Property Management Agency of the Year Over 1,000 Managements | Callagher Kelly Group | |
| Property Management Agency of the Year Under 1,000 Managements – Metro | Reliance Real Estate | |
| Property Management Agency of the Year Regional | Griffith Real Estate | |
| Community Achievement of the Year | The Property Shop | |
| Marketing Agency of the Year | Cunninghams | |
| Rising Star Agency of the Year | Bendigo Real Estate | |
| Service Excellence Agency of the Year | Bonaccorde Property Services | |
| Innovation Excellence Agency of the Year | Nolan Partners | |
| Digital Excellence Agency of the Year | McConnell Bourn | |
| Project Excellence Agency of the Year | Position Property | |
| Agent Achiever of the Year Metro | Brix Cai | Peake Real Estate |
| Agent Achiever of the Regional | Amanda Haimona | Bonaccorde Property Services |
| Agent of the Year | Georgi Bates | Cunninghams |
| Agent of the Year | Sandy Rana | Reliance Real Estate |
| NSW Agent of the Year | Alyse Pilley | The Property Shop |
| QLD Agent of the Year | Brad Munro | Position Property |
| Vic Agent of the Year | Matthew Pillios | Marshall White |
| SA Agent of the Year | Sally Cameron | Toop&Toop Real Estate |
| WA Agent of the Year | Rob Stefanovski | Limnios Property Group |
| NZ Agent of the Year | Lisa Sigley | Lugtons |
| Auctioneer of the Year | Adam Piller | Caporn Young Estate Agents |
| Manager of the Year | Bree Higgins | Cunninghams |
| Marketing Campaign of the Year Under $10,000 | Stell Limnios | Limnios Property Group |
| Marketing Campaign of the Year Over $10,000 | Carole McCrea | McConnell Bourn |
| Principal of the Year | Sunil Kumar | Reliance Real Estate |
| Boutique Principal of the Year | Esme & Claudia Coren | Yeppoon Real Estate |
| Property Manager of the Year | Jenny Dias | Morton Real Estate |
| Business Development Manager of the Year – PM | David Lipman | Morton Real Estate |
| Performer of the Year Sales | Taney Jain | Reliance Real Estate |
| Performer of the Year PM | Alesha Dietz | Warwick Williams Real Estate |
| Growth Agent of the Year | Melissa Pittard | Warburton Estate Agents |
| Support Star of the Year | Tyler-Marie Leach | Morton Real Estate |
| Client Services Manager of the Year | Rebecca Maxwell | Caporn Young Estate Agents |
