SKHULILE NDLOVU investment banking : security division on the supporting desk for traders from 2015 – 2017 .
After his 5 year stint at HSBC Bank and almost 2 years at UBS Investment Bank , Ndlovu says , ‘ this gave me the necessary fundamentals to understand business finance , investments , and how property finance works both from a banking and investor perspective .’ This also gave him the international exposure and the experience he wanted .
Ndlovu decided to leave his comfy well-paying corporate job after being bitten by the colloquial ‘ property bug ’. He was always an avid student and reader of property education books and material after deciding that it was now time to take the plunge into real estate as an entrepreneur .
International Banker becomes property entrepreneur
He first joined an international real estate agency in the Sandton area to service their clients for five months . He realised at the time that many people could not afford to buy those expensive properties in Sandton and saw opportunity in other areas .
In the same year he decided to equip himself with a Property Investment and Practice programme qualification from Wits University to navigate through his new proposed business venture and terrain to fulfil his clients property investment aspirations .
Late in 2017 Ndlovu formed his own property business focusing on servicing first-time buyers , young professionals looking to buy their first properties , entrepreneurs looking for office space and educating people with limited knowledge about property .
His company Encore Real Estate , a property sales brokerage and marketing business focused on marketing , selling new developments and managing properties on behalf of property developers in Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal . Today he says , ‘ the move into my own real estate business has been a well-calculated move .’
His passion for property education is also part of the company offering . Encore Real Estate Academy ( a division of Encore Real Estate ) is an accredited SETA company in the real estate training area , where different qualifications for real estate agents , investors and professional can be attained . Moreover , Encore Real Estate is making inroads
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