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| 1. Homenet Conference, 12 – 15 June 2005, Wild Coast
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This year, Homenet's annual conference was held at the
superb venue of Wild Coast Sun. It was a memorable conference
for all delegates, filled with learning, networking opportunities
and led to lots of new referral contacts and friends being
made, as well as the sharing of a whole lot of good times,
laughter and fun!
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| 2. HOMENET'S AWARD WINNERS…. |
FOUR IN A ROW FOR TOP CENTURION AGENTS |
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Pieter Maritz of Homenet VWB is
the group's 2005 Top Achiever for residential
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For an amazing fourth
year in a row, the top Homenet award for residential sales
has come home to Centurion with Pieter and Joey Maritz,
the dynamic couple who head up leading local agency Homenet
VWB.
This year, the Top Achiever
trophy for the highest amount of commission generated from
residential sales went to Pieter, who also won it in 2003.
Joey, who claimed the trophy
last year and in 2002, took third place in the commissioned
earned category this year and was also named as one of top
10 performers in the residential units sold category.
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| DOUBLE
HONOURS FOR BELLVILLE PRINCIPAL |
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Western Cape estate agency principal
Pieter Smith has just pulled off a double win to become
the giant Homenet group's top development sales person of
2005.
Smith, owner of Homenet PSPG
in Belville, pipped hundreds of colleagues in other Homenet
offices around the country to claim the group's 2005 Top
Achiever awards for development sales in both the units
sold and commission earned categories.
The awards were presented at
Homenet's recent national convention, where Arno de Goede,
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Pieter Smith of Homenet PSPG in Belville
is the group's top development sales agent of 2005,
having recently scooped the Top Achiever awards in
both the units sold and commission earned categories.
With him is Ronel Muller of Bond Choice.
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NATIONAL HONOURS
FOR MIDRAND AGENTS
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Homenet Midrand
co-principal Ron Thomas, right, and son Deane.
The agency claimed four of the top sales awards
at the group's recent annual conference.
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Top selling estate agent
Wendy Redl of Homenet Midrand has beaten stiff competition
from colleagues in more than 160 other Homenet agencies
around the country to be named as one of the group's
top two residential sales achievers for 2005.
Her award was presented
at the group's recent national convention, where she
also notched up a third place in the residential units
sold category.
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| EAST LONDON
AGENCY A STAR PERFORMER |
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Homenet Cornerstone
principal Lance Gous, left, was presented with a special
award for outstanding bond support by Ed Grondel and
Roland Lange of
First National Bank.
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East London agency Homenet Cornerstone
has emerged as a star corporate performer in the giant Homenet
group, having brought home eight top accolades from the
group's recent national awards ceremony.
The agency's Elizabeth Wright
and Dina Anvari started the ball rolling when they were
placed among the top residential sales achievers in both
the units sold and commission generated categories.
Sterling sales over the past
12 months then enabled it to scoop all three of the First
National Bank, Nedbank and Standard Bank trophies awarded
for outstanding support by a Homenet agency over the past
12 months.
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| NATIONAL
HONOURS FOR ‘MARITZBURG AGENTS |
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Elsie Rainier and Albie Timmerman
of Homenet 1st Realtors in Pietermartizburg, which
won the national Standard Bank prize for the highest
number of new home loans registered in the past 12
months.
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Jane Folker of Pietermaritzburg
agency Homenet Agriplan has just been named as the Homenet
group's top agricultural sales agent - for a remarkable
fourth year running.
Her achievement was announced
at Homenet's recent annual conference, where another local
agency, Homenet 1st Realtors, won the national award presented
by Standard Bank for the highest number of new home loans
registered in the past 12 months as a result of agency referrals.
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| NATIONAL
HONOURS FOR LOCAL AGENCY |
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Top selling local agent Cecile
Beetge, of Homenet Potchefstroom, has beaten stiff competition
from colleagues in more than 160 other Homenet agencies
around the country to be named as one of the group's top
10 residential unit sales achievers of 2005.
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Pieter and Santi Britz of Homenet Potchefstroom,
which was presented with a special Absa award made
in recognition of the agency's outstanding support
in generating new home loan business over the past
12 months.
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| NATIONAL
HONOURS (AGAIN) FOR KRIEL AGENT |
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Cheryl Kasselman of Homenet Kriel
is the group's Top Achiever of 2005 in the residential
units sold category
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Mpumalanga estate agent Cheryl
Kasselman has just scooped the Homenet national trophy for
highest number of residential units sold - for the second
year in a row.
Kasselman, who works exclusively
in the small town of Kriel, pipped hundreds of colleagues
in other Homenet offices around the country to claim her
2005 Top Achiever award, which was presented at the group's
recent national convention.
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| 3. HOMENET APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR |
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Homenet chairman
Robert Ketjen and national manager Brenda Shrimpton
congratulate Dr Willie Marais, right, on his appointment
to the Homenet board of directors.
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Homenet, South Africa's biggest
estate agency group, has appointed a new member to its board
of directors.
Dr Willie Marais, who is the
principal of Homenet Maxima in Pretoria, was elected to
the position during the group's 14th annual national conference
held recently in KwaZulu-Natal.
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| 4. STANDARD
BANK TO SPONSOR HOMENET ACADEMY |
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Class of 2005: There were more than
80 graduates from the Homenet Academy this year. In
recognition of the contribution
that the Academy makes to raising service standards
in the real estate industry, Standard Bank has committed
to a two-year sponsorship of the institution.
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In recognition of the contribution
that the Homenet Training Academy makes to raising service
standards in the real estate industry, Standard Bank has
committed to a two-year sponsorship of the institution.
The sponsorship was announced
this week during Homenet's annual national conference, attended
by some 500 delegates from more than 160 offices around
the country.
Established in 1995 on the premise
that the best agents are the best-trained agents, the training
academy continues to distinguish Homenet today as the only
South African estate agency group with a full-time, fully-fledged
training “college” for its members.
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| 5. CONFERENCE PICTURES……
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The other Austin Powers, Dr Evil and
the inimitable "Bond Girls". You figure it out.
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The team fancy-dress prize went to
the extended Incredibles family (including all the
cousins) and was presented by Austin Powers, cunningly
disguised as John Rivers-Moore of Standard Bank.
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Absa Bank was represented at the conference
by Agent Rachel Wall and a very slick team of Men
in Black (with red underwear) - here to save the universe
from slow approvals and high interest rates...
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| 6. QUOTE OF THE
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There's no business that's
not show business!!!
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We trust that you have enjoyed this month's articles!
Please e-mail us on homenet@homenet.co.za if
you have any suggestions regarding content or comments on this
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Newsletter:
3 February 2012 to 10 February 2012 - Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa
