THE Australian Property Institute has bestowed Bruce Bartrop with the API Property Legend Award.
Bartrop joins other Property Legend Award recipients Bill Shelton; Malcolm Gray; Chris Lee; Bill McHarg; Rod Fitzroy and Geoff Sutherland.
The Bartrop name is synonymous with real estate in Ballarat since the 1920s. The office stands on the site of the first house in the City of Ballarat, erected by James Meek in 1852, just two years before the Eureka Stockade Rebellion.
In 1876 William Little succeeded to the real estate business of James Oddie, Ballarat’s first auctioneer. Little later became Mayor of Ballarat and his business thrived and some 50 years later, his real estate business was taken over by the firm of Edgar Bartrop Real Estate. Bruce joined his father in 1952 and the family company was subsequently incorporated.
The name Bartrop has always been involved with broader real estate industry matters, not only through the Ballarat branch of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria, but throughout Victoria, Australia and overseas through the International Real Estate Federation.
The late Edgar Bartrop was a founding member of what is now the Real Estate Institute of Victoria and both he and Bruce are past presidents of the REIV and collectively are part of a small group of fathers and sons who have been REIV presidents.
He has been a member of the API since September 1956, a Fellow since November 1988 and in 2011 and recently completed the API’s Specialist Retail Valuer Professional Certificate Course to become an API Accredited Specialist Retail Valuer.
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