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The institute welcomes an experienced Queensland agent onto its board of directors.
Hayden Groves, president of the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) has expressed his delight at the appointment of Andrew Bell, a vastly experienced operator with a sturdy reputation and history within the sector.
“Mr Bell has over 40 years’ experience in the real estate industry, first operating a three-office group in Sydney and now the largest independently owned real estate group in Queensland,” Mr Groves said.
“He owns and operates the Ray White Surfers Paradise Group with his brother Greg, which has become the largest real estate company in Queensland, employing over 200 staff operating through a wide range of real estate activities from all forms of residential, prestige homes, project marketing, commercial and industrial.”
Mr Bell joins on an initial two-year term from 2022 through to 2024 in what is a major coup for the REIA and the Queensland real estate market, which has struggled for unity and proper representation since the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) discontinued it’s membership back in 2015, a stance it has since re-enforced further following bullying allegations from the Queensland body.
Speaking on the role, Mr Groves detailed its goal is “to provide Queensland-based strategic advice to deliver the just launched REIA 2025 — Advancing Australia’s Prosperity.”
“It is our view Queensland-based agents are equally deserving of expressing their opinions of REIA’s national policy and strategic objectives and Mr Bell was an outstanding candidate in a very competitive field,” he commented.
Having expressed his pride at joining the institute, Mr Bell professed his belief that the “work of the REIA is essential, not only for our industry, but for the millions of Australians who are invested in the real estate market, either as homeowners or aspiring homeowners, tenants and landlords.”
He detailed his desire to work with all bodies involved in the industry and provide a “united voice and real-time insights to all the issues that are affecting everyone engaged in the real estate market.”
“I will be particularly keen to provide the unique Queensland perspective, given that many of the unique aspects of our market, and particularly of late significantly added pressures from the huge migration into the state of Queensland,” Mr Bell said.
“[I]t will be a huge honour, as well as an enormous responsibility to work with my fellow board members to have a powerful input and influence over a range of housing and industry topics that have never been more significant than [at] present.”
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