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Growing up in a housing commission high rise in the inner Sydney suburb of Waterloo, the James Cook flats on Pitt Street was home for the Pike family. The farthest thing from my mind as a young boy was a career in real estate. Our family had never owned real estate, we didn’t even own a car.
I remember the day I started my real estate career in 1987, I was just 20 years old with no formal education, married with my first child and buying our first home. I didn’t realise it at the time but I had to succeed or I would be in serious financial trouble. After convincing Barry Ferguson, a legend in Redcliffe property, to hire me he trained and mentored me in my formative years and helped me establish a foundation of success that is still in place today and I am forever grateful to him. Other real estate greats that have had an impact on me are Neville Pask and Gary Pittard, two men that have had incredible property and business success over their long careers.
Thirty-five years on in an industry I love I can say that things are very different from those formative years. For the past 28 years I have owned and been the Principal/Licensee of my own residential sales and property management business. In that time the agency has grown to become one of the leading agencies in the Moreton Bay region. Over the years I have been involved in training, spoken at conferences and have just completed an MBA (Masters of Business Administration). I have been personally involved in many thousands of property sales, but the thing I love most about my industry is the people you meet – young couples purchasing their first home and ten years on realising they now have a financial foundation for the rest of their lives, Mums and Dads growing their families and investors securing their future.
One of my recent favourites was the Macfarlane’s. I sold them a home over 20 years ago and recently when I sold it for them to move on one last time, it was like a trip down memory lane for the both of us.
Thank you to all of our past and present clients, without you we wouldn’t exist.
Contact Frank Pike on (07) 5495 7777 or email frank@pikeproperty.com.au
