Harcourts Facts

Harcourts International Ltd is the largest real estate group in New Zealand and the fastest growing real estate group in Australasia.

Harcourts has been in existence since 1888.

Harcourts International Ltd has over 790 offices:

• New Zealand: 170 offices
• Fiji: 2 offices
• Queensland: 90 offices
• NSW: 38 offices
• Victoria: 43 offices
• Tasmania: 21 offices
• South Australia: 45 offices (Brock Harcourts)
• Western Australia: 35 offices
• Northern Territory: 1 office
• Indonesia: 15 offices
• Singapore: 2 offices
• China: 13 offices
• Zambia: 1 offices
• South Africa: 132 offices
• United States of America: 23 offices
• Regional Australia (Landmark Harcourts): 136 offices

Harcourts International Ltd has over 5,100 Sales Consultants:

• NZ: 1,762
• Fiji: 15
• Queensland: 416
• NSW: 115
• Victoria: 217
• Tasmania: 77
• South Australia: 204 (Brock Harcourts)
• Western Australia: 214
• Northern Territory: 6
• Indonesia: 185
• Singapore: 180
• China: 178
• Zambia: 4
• South Africa: 649
• United States of America: 700
• Regional Australia (Landmark Harcourts): 196

Harcourts International Ltd exceeded a record 20.4 billion in sales for the 2010 financial year.

2011 Harcourts form a joint venture in Australia with Landmark to form a new Rural & Regional real estate company Landmark Harcourts.

Harcourts has the highest national preference for real estate agencies amongst homeowners in New Zealand (ACNielsen March 2009).

Harcourts has the highest top of mind awareness for real estate agencies amongst homeowners in New Zealand (ACNielsen March 2009).

Harcourts Rural currently holds a strong market share in Rural and Country Living sales with a team of over 130 Rural Sales Consultants operating from 87 rural Harcourts Offices throughout New Zealand.

www.harcourts.co.nz is New Zealand's most visited real estate group website with over 200,000 unique visitors within June 2010 alone (Nielsen/NetRatings).

Harcourts is the only real estate group in New Zealand which can both email and 'text' message notification of new listings and open homes to the public (to any text capable Telecom mobile phone).

Harcourts is the first real estate group in Australasia to offer a website designed specifically to help sell your property. Bookmark this site and use it as your one stop research guide to the real estate market. If you’re thinking of buying, selling or relocating, this site will show you recent sales and current listings both in your area and throughout Australia and New Zealand. See www.infolink.harcourts.net

www.harcourts.co.nz was the first real estate group in New Zealand to also feature a locality map on many of its website property listings (Google Maps).

The Harcourts Academy is a registered training organisation which allows students to attain national qualifications toward sales registration, property management and full agency licence.

Harcourts is the exclusive Australasian and South Pacific representative of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World ™, the largest real estate network on earth consisting of 650 companies, 5,000 offices, and 150,000 sales consultants.

Harcourts is also the exclusive Australasian and South Pacific representative of Luxury Portfolio. www.luxuryportfolio.com showcases the finest properties from around the world. Luxury Portfolio currently contains more worldwide $1m + listings than any other company.

Harcourts was the first real estate company in the world to have an office in the virtual world of Second Life (www.secondlife.com).

Harcourts International has its own charitable foundation – The Harcourts Foundation  'To provide support that helps, grows, and enriches our communities'.

(*Last updated April 2011 - will be updated on a regular basis)

If you have any queries or suggestions for other facts that would be of interest, please email shaena.allen@harcourts.net