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Aug 1, 2019
All in the family
Ray White Helensburgh celebrate the achievements of Ken McCarthy, one of Ray White’s oldest members.
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Ray White GroupMatthias Samuelsson, Ken McCarthy, Patricia McCarthy, and Simon Beaufils.
Ken McCarthy, aged 89, is one of Ray White’s oldest members. Mr McCarthy is the Director of Ray White Helensburgh and a member of their now fourth-generation family-owned business.
His grandsons Mattias Samuelsson and Simon Beaufils own Ray White Helensburgh.
Mr McCarthy has been in real estate for 40 years. He says the secret to a long and productive life is a daily swim and a sneaky scotch every night.
“I swim every day. I have never smoked and I have one scotch and dry every night, just one,” Mr McCarthy said.
Prior to working in real estate, Mr McCarthy was an assistant accountant for the ABC in Queensland.
But he said the best decision of his life was when he and his wife Patricia moved to the small town of Helensburgh in NSW.
Helensburgh is located halfway between Sydney and Wollongong (45km south of Sydney’s CBD and 34km north of Wollongong).
“Helensburgh is unusual as it’s almost like a country town yet it’s practically a suburb of Sydney,” Mr McCarthy said.
He originally employed his sons Warren and Patrick McCarthy in his business and now his two grandsons run Ray White Helensburgh.
“Helensburgh is a great place to live and work as it’s the best of both worlds here. We are so close to Sydney and yet there’s no traffic lights here and only five minutes to the beach and we are surrounded by national parks,” Mr Beaufils said.
“We are proud to be a fourth-generation family business, just like the White family," he said.
“[Ken] has been the glue who kept us together. A family business is a different kind of business and Ken’s always been there to support everyone 100 per cent.
"He’s like the Godfather, and we counsel his opinion on big decisions and he definitely still loves to attend sales meetings too,” said Mr Beaufils.
Mr McCarthy said he loved real estate as it was a people business.
“In all the years I was in real estate I never came across any angry people,” he said.
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