Auckland Regional Office

Bryan Thomson

Bryan has achieved an impressive track record of success during almost 20 years’ in the real estate industry working in positions throughout New Zealand ranging from sales consultant to senior management. With Harcourts since 1998 and a shareholder since 2002 Bryan was CEO of Harcourts New Zealand for eight years being appointed in April 2010 to the new role of Head of Real Estate Operations for Harcourts Australasia. An experienced director, and former award-winning auctioneer he brings extensive real estate industry knowledge and experience, a wide range of skills and a considerable network of contacts to his new role, and is relishing the opportunity of helping to drive the growth and performance of Harcourts throughout the region.

Carol Benny

Bringing standardisation, best practice and an overall point of contact for property managers throughout Harcourts nationwide is the focus for Carol Benny. Carol’s extensive experience includes managing a highly successful property management division, while building the property management suite of resources within Harcourts. With a passion for Property Management, Carol’s focus is on further building the profile of the division.

Chris Brearley AREINZ

Chris’s career in real estate began when he joined Barfoot & Thompson as a Sales Consultant and had great success during his time selling real estate, then becoming part of the regional team at RE/MAX as Franchise Sales Manager. After 3 years with RE/MAX Chris became the Auckland/Northland Sales and Account Manager for RPNZ and after almost 4 years with RPNZ was very excited to be offered the role of Franchise Development Manager at Harcourts. Chris has observed that Harcourts is an innovative, professional very people-orientated company that is moving at a steady pace towards exceptional growth and says he feels very fortunate to be part of Harcourts’ future development plan.

Debbie Brett

Debbie's experience is extensive and has covered, IT/Telecommunication industry for 14 years, selling Mobile and I.T. products/services/hardware and software to the retail/education and business channels. Her expertise in these areas was developed while working for Telecom Mobile, Comworth Systems, Scottronic Technologoies and Ultra Computers (Now part of Insite Technologies) in roles of Account Management, Business Development, Sales Manager and Business Owner. Over the past nine years she has gained extensive experience within the Real Estate Industry with roles covering Sales, Career Manager/Trainer/Coach/Recruiting and Sales Management within the Harcourts Group. Debbie has been working for Harcourts for the past four years and her role within the Harcourts Regional office in Auckland as Business Operations Manager see's her assisting Office Administrators, Sales People, Managers and Business Owners with the daily operation of their businesses using the Harcourts Technology suite of products.

Emma Revell

Emma joined Harcourts New Zealand in 2004 after working in a range of Marketing, Event and Sponsorship in the UK, Australian and New Zealand. Emma is responsible for the Group’s National Events Calendar, Sponsorship, Suppliers and Relationship Management. Emma is driven to deliver the best events for her delegates and provide the very highest levels of client service to our Business Partners. The biggest thing I have learnt from years of running events, is that attention to detail is the absolute key. Do that right and your client will trust you implicitly so both you and they will have a more relaxed and enjoyable event. "I have worked with Emma for the last couple of years in my role as Marketing & Communications Manager at Marsh. During this time I have found Emma to be an outstanding individual to work with. She is exceptionally organised, makes life as a business partner very easy and runs events to a very high standard. For these reasons and many more I thoroughly enjoy working with her and would totally recommend her to others as well." Denise Moller, Marketing & Communications Manager, New Zealand Marsh Ltd |

Fiona Davis

With two degrees in Business Studies (Accounting and Tax) as well as having previous roles as both an Accountant and a Chartered Accounting Technician in her homeland of Ireland, Fiona Davis brings plenty of international expertise and experience to the role since joining Harcourts mid 2005. Her focus is to prepare all management accounts for Harcourts Group, as well as provide financial expertise on projects.

Harriet Parsonson

Hayden Duncan

As CEO of Harcourts New Zealand, Hayden is responsible for the strategic direction and growth of the Harcourts New Zealand group. Hayden has an impressive track record of success, including a number of years in senior roles within Turners before he joined the real estate industry. Starting out in the industry as a commercial/industrial sales consultant, Hayden has gained considerable knowledge and experience as he has progressed, becoming a real estate auctioneer, trainer, general manager/franchise owner and national auction manager/chief auctioneer before being appointed CEO of Harcourts New Zealand in June 2010. Now responsible for the leadership of New Zealand’s largest real estate group, Hayden is a youthful and energetic real estate professional with exceptional communication and presentation skills, a passion for people and the real estate industry, a considerable network and an established national profile. A rising star in the industry, who as an auctioneer has been involved in more than $4.5 billion worth of real estate transactions, Hayden works alongside Chief Operations Officer Jo Clifford and together with her manages the Harcourts New Zealand corporate team.

Jo-Anne Clifford

Jo-Anne has over 20 years experience in franchise development, strategic business planning, systems, training and technology, and as Northern Regional Manager played a key role in past growth of offices and market share in Auckland. Jo-Anne was also responsible for the growth and development of residential property management, and is a vital member of Harcourts' strategic planning and development group.

Josephine Kinsella

Previously Manager of the hugely successful and award winning Harcourts Howick, her career in sales, marketing & management has an outstanding record of success. 6 years of business ownership with her own agency & grow her own brand internationally, a successful selling career, and having significant industry experience in both Residential & Commercial market including Property Management Josephine has over 15 years senior management, sales and marketing experience across a span of industries including advertising, tourism, aviation and real estate. Tranz Rail, Accor Hotels, Qantas NZ, Airwork NZ to name just a few of her career highlights. Her success has come from a total dedication to serving clients needs, providing & ensuring the highest levels of service, ethics in competitive & emerging markets. Josephine believes in the philosophy of ‘clients for life’ and her career is testament to her. An experienced trainer Josephine is energetic & supportive in every way, bringing a breath air to the industry. A highly experienced manager, experienced business director & sales professional, licensed real estate agent with outstanding marketing experience, negotiation skills & a high level of business & financial management. Areas of Contact: Regional Marketing, Business Strategies, Market share, business growth, career opportunities, recruitment, complaint resolutions, development and growth of new offices, day to day management of operations of Harcourts Northern Region.

Julia Eyles

Julie Waymouth, AREINZ

Katie McAleese

Niina Suhonen

Richard Laery

Richard is General Manager for NAI Harcourts in New Zealand. A joint venture with NAI Global and Harcourts which formed NAI Harcourts throughout Australasia NAI Harcourts is achieving rapid growth throughout New Zealand, Now with the biggest team in the Hamilton and central region. We have grown to 109 full time sales consultants nationally. Harcourts is New Zealands largest real estate group.. In 2011 We believe we were New Zealand's fastest growing commercial/industrial real estate group with a 30% growth in constant numbers and over 100% increase in written value in some months. we have representation in 60 locations around the country from Kerikeri to Invercargill and we are continuing to grow. Our people, processes, systems and our technology are world class. We are continuing to grow in 2012 YTD we are up 55% in settled value. We are 100% committed to becoming one of the top 3 commercial brand within the New Zealand commercial marketplace. As part of the largest managed global network NAI Global and the largest real estate group in New Zealand Harcourts; it’s no surprise that our growth and development of the brand are showing results for our clients. Richard passionately believes there is great opportunity for NAI Harcourts to continue its growth in New Zealand through the utilisation of industry specific tools and resources. “The tools we access from NAI Global and Harcourts are adapted for the national and local markets in turn helping our clients to achieve what they set out to do; as our clients succeed, so do we.” Richard entered the Real Estate industry in 1998, primarily in commercial and industrial market property sales and leasing.

Robert Tulp

Robert Tulp has been a successful real estate agent over the past 20 years and a top Auctioneer in both Australia and New Zealand. He is a recipient of the REIWA Grand Master Salesman – their highest honour and been the top agent in Western Australia for their biggest group – First National. More recently he has been a Business Owner, Manager and now award winning Auctioneer. In 2010 he won the Harcourts NZ Auctioneer title; was a runner up at the National Institute Auction Competition and a finalist in the Australasian Auction champs. In 2011 he won the Inaugural ‘Bledisloe’ Auction Cup as the top Harcourts Auctioneer in Australasia. Robert has been working for Franchise group Cooper and Co on Auckland’s North Shore for the past few years as an Auctioneer, Manager and Trainer and has now taken the step into the Corporate arena by taking on the National Auction Manager’s role. His current role sees him call Auctions in Residential, Mortgagee, Rural & Commercial arenas.

Sharon Morey

Sharon Morey joined the Harcourts team as National Marketing Manager with a bang, with her first day being at the annual Harcourts Conference in Rotorua. Sharon is based in the Auckland Regional Office and brings with her seven years in Real Estate Marketing. After taking a year to expand her experience working in business development for a large kiwi owned engineering firm, she is very much looking forward to getting back into the world of real estate and is passionate about helping to build Harcourts brand presence within the New Zealand market. The major objectives of her new role include the facilitation in the growth of the Blue Book and NAI Harcourts publications, brand management, the implementation of Campaign Track throughout Harcourts’ offices, and assisting franchises and business owners in raising their profile within their local markets.

Sophie Mooney

Tony Renwick FREINZ