A new partnership between the PropTech Group and Re-Engage Consulting will offer training and consulting to the 42% of Australia and New Zealand real estate agency principals and agents who are PropTech Group customers – potentially helping them increase their profits by as much as 20% and creating efficient and consistently well-run operations.

“I’ve worked with every size and kind of real estate office across nearly 20 years of working in real estate, and too many of them are leaving money on the table,” said Andrew Friebe, Founder and CEO of Re-Engage Consulting.

“I love helping principals integrate best practice into their own businesses. With relatively simple but strategic changes, most principals can become more profitable and efficient. I’ve worked with many who could increase their profits by 20% per year by working smarter. There is no greater sense of achievement than the part I can play in contributing to the success and growth of businesses.

“This partnership with PropTech Group is game changing because for the first time it gives nearly half the real estate principals in Australia and New Zealand access to the kind of training that can make a significant difference to their business.

“Until recently, I had the honour of being the COO at Harcourts, which is a market-leading international network of great people and great businesses. There, I had the privilege to work with some of the best business, and we learned from each other. The collective knowledge I have is what I am able to now share with all business and agents across Australia and New Zealand to enable people to speed up their success. 

“PropTech Group and RE-engage Consulting will help principals and agents ensure they are using the technologies that are best for them, that their people are taking full advantage of what the technology can do, and that through best practices they create a virtuous process that results in higher profit. In my experience, very few businesses are using their technology to its potential, and most still struggle with duplication of effort and inefficiencies.”

Joe Hanna, Group CEO and Managing Director of PropTech Group, said, “Through our VaultRE and Eagle CRM software and related products, we believe we already provide real estate agencies with the best available software to help them run their businesses. This partnership with Andrew goes further and enables them to make the most of their technology and team.

“Most customers get an immediate productivity boost when they switch to our software, but the improvements don’t have to stop there. Working with an advisor as experienced as Andrew can empower them to adopt the practices and structures that will bring maximum profit from the opportunities in front of them.”

The services that Re-Engage Consulting can provide to PropTech Group customers, drawn from experience working in-depth with many of the best businesses in Australia and New Zealand, include:

• Annual Business Planning with a focus on profitability and inclusive of industry benchmarking
• Accountability through quarterly reviews and implementing tools to measure performance on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
• PropTech Advisory with a focus on time, process, and cost efficiency
• Business and technology integration to reduce duplication of effort and resources to drive profitability
• Best Practice Agency and Agent Marketing
• Lead generation
• Operational and People Planning to Build High Performance Teams and Team Culture
• Coaching and mentoring high performing agents to build super teams

Friebe of Re-Engage Consulting brings a wealth of experience to the partnership with PropTech Group. Following a decade as a successful residential sales consultant, Friebe joined the Harcourts South Australia corporate team and progressed to CEO.  Since then, Friebe was the regional Managing Director for South Australia/Western Australia for LJ Hooker before assuming his most recent role as Harcourts International COO.

The views expressed in this article are an opinion only and readers should rely on their independent advice in relation to such matters.