26 January 2005
Beautiful Golden Bay Home to Newest Harcourts Team
The owner of one of Harcourts’ most consistently successful and long-standing offices, Paul Hedwig of Harcourts Nelson,
has just announced the launch of a dedicated Golden Bay team. Mr Hedwig said Golden Bay had undergone huge changes in
recent years, and having owned a property there for 12 years had experienced many of those changes himself. He noted
that Takaka and the surrounding area was no longer just the domain of an alternative laid-back culture, with the
stunning coastal environment now a key attraction for visitors and residents worldwide.
While having partially serviced the Golden Bay area from his Nelson office for many years, Mr Hedwig said due to the
increasing demand for the high level of service Harcourts offered its clients, a clear need for a resident team had been
established.
Harcourts now provided its Golden Bay clients with not only residential property expertise, but farming, lifestyle and
dedicated commercial property expertise due to the close ties with Harcourts’ dominant Nelson office. Mr Hedwig
emphasised Harcourts’ strong international links, referral systems, and having the most visited real estate group
website in the country ensured clients enjoyed extensive and sophisticated marketing programmes to achieve outstanding
property results.
With a clientele based in the sweeping bay bordered each end by the internationally renowned Abel Tasman and Heaphy
tracks, the Golden Bay team members were at this stage working from their home bases with a prominent Takaka main street
window displaying listings. Mr Hedwig described the experienced multinational team headed by Brian Devonshire (AREINZ),
with Susan Devonshire, Nikki Ryan, Brad Harwood-Heising (ex USA), and Monika Stompe (ex Austria), as “five people
passionate about living in Golden Bay and keen to offer their services and international links”.
CEO of Harcourts New Zealand, Bryan Thomson, said, “The opening of any new office is an exciting time for our group as
each new location adds to our national and international coverage providing our clients with direct access to buyers and
sellers throughout the world, particular in areas like Golden Bay which is now so multinational. As someone born and
bred in the Nelson district, this office opening is personally very satisfying to see and with one of our leading
business owners at the helm we know it will be massively successful.”
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