Highlights from our last REOO
BY SHANNON COOK , ALEX TILBURY AND CASSANDRA GLOVER
Ray White ’ s 16th call-a-thon hit a spooky new level in October with 11,550 appraisals booked across Australasia during the Halloween-themed appraisal drive , 100 per cent powered by NurtureCloud , our cutting edge prop tech platform .
Ray White New Zealand won the 16th REOO with 4,297 appraisals , followed by Ray White Queensland who came in second with 4,286 .
Ray White Manukau claimed bragging rights this year booking a whopping 2,028 appraisals , and Ray White Mangare finished in second place on 449 appraisals .
Ray White Ray White Manukau | Manurewa | Mangere Bridge | Mangere took out the number one multi-office business with 2,592 appraisals .
The top agent winner was the unstoppable Charlie Brothers of Ray White Manukau who booked 366 appraisals .
In New Zealand , Ray White Manukau director of sales Richie Lewis said Real Estate of Origin had a huge impact on both their individual agents and the business .
“ REOO presents an awesome opportunity to ignite energy and momentum around a highimpact prospecting event ,” Richie said .
“ For us , it ’ s more than just an event ; it ’ s a catalyst that fuels culture and drives ‘ now ’ and future business .
“ It ' s a win-win for individual agents , our offices and our group .”
Ray White Innes Road principal Adam Rogers ( pictured above right ) said days like today help his team build capacity for such a simple task .
“ We can achieve so much in such a short time ," he said .
“ If we can put this into practice by building it into each day we can achieve even more .”
Ray White Metro director Richard Withy said he and his team loved Real Estate of Origin .
“ For us it drives activity and calls and that flows through to appraisal and listing growth over the next three to four months ,” Richard said .
“ It ’ s nice to bring the whole team together outside of the office and have some exciting prizes to drive the calls also .”
In New South Wales , Ray White Elevate Group director Michael Simpson and his team have never missed a Real Estate of Origin since joining the group .
Michael and brother Andrew along with local experts Alfio Musumeci , Carl Mirabella , and Taskin Satici recently combined their inner west Sydney businesses to form the Ray White Elevate Group .
“ We recently amalgamated with a huge inner west real estate business . There are now four offices working together ,” Michael said .
“ We all love NurtureCloud and it is creating an epic database for everyone .”
It was Ray White Bateau Bay principal Paul Witney ’ s first Real Estate of Origin after joining the group only a few months ago . He set his team of four and himself a target of 30 appraisals for the day .
“ It was quite an exciting day ! We wouldn ’ t usually do this in a couple of hours so it ’ s been great ,” Paul said .
“ It ’ s been nice to come to the city and get out of our day to day . We are already talking about what to do for the next event .
“ My top tip for booking appraisals is using the opportunity to give them a spring update to open up the conversation . Things have changed in the market so I ’ ve been working on giving people a fresh update .”
Ray White Metro owners Richard Withy and Kate Major