Real Estate Agent
What the work is
Coordinates the activities of Real Estate Representatives in selling and leasing real estate, and ensuring compliance with legislative requirements.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Accepts and lists properties and businesses for sale and lease
- Conducts inspections and advises buyers on the merits of properties and businesses, and the terms of sale or lease
- Advises vendors of sales and marketing options, and develops and implements marketing strategies to promote properties for lease or sale
- Catalogues and details land, buildings and businesses for lease or sale, and arranges advertising
- Assesses buyers' needs, and locates properties and businesses for their consideration
- Prepares and presents property reports and market analysis, offers valuations and advice for buying and selling properties and businesses, and structures the terms of settlement
- Collects and holds rent payments from tenants and remits to owner on an agreed basis
- Monitors and addresses non-compliance with terms and conditions of tenancy, and pursues rental arrears
- May arrange finance, land brokerage, conveyancing and maintenance of premises
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a real estate agency in a regional town that also runs rural livestock sales and property auctions. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- The hammer falls at an auction and both the seller and the buyer walk away happy
- A family you helped to find a home sends you a photo of their first night in it
- A morning at the saleyards, with the auctioneer's patter and everyone's handshake
Hard days
- A sale that falls through the day before settlement, after weeks of work
- Telling an owner that the price they hoped for is not what the market will pay
- Weekends and evenings given up to open homes, auctions and urgent phone calls
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 622232, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.