Anne Joyce – Real estate agent

Hi, my name is Anne Joyce and I work in real estate. I sell and rent houses, apartments and properties.
I was born in Canberra 32 years ago.

You need to enjoy working with people and for me it is also about gaining the satisfaction of finding the right place for each client. I have been working in real estate for 14 years and I often have past clients returning to use my skills again. 

My husband worked for a bank, and as a result my family of seven moved around Australia every three or four years. Having to find a suitable home for my family taught me the difference between a really good real estate salesperson and those who were just doing a job. 

Real estate was something I had often considered as a career, because I had seen so many good and bad agents when we were looking for homes. The challenge to become a good agent and to help people find what was right for them really excited me, and it still does.
 
I also met people that had been very successful in real estate and who encouraged me to work as a real estate salesperson because they thought I would be really good at it. 

To work as a real estate salesperson you need to like people, because it is a people job, and you do meet so many lovely people. I try to keep in touch with my past clients and while I deal with all types of people, I particularly like helping first-home buyers and older people who have been in a big home and are trying to find a suitable home to retire to. 

My advice to someone interested in becoming a real estate salesperson is you should think carefully about whether you can afford to live on commission, because you need to have some form of financial backing to get started. 

As for me, well I cannot imagine being retired so I think I will be in real estate for a while yet.