ONE of Queensland’s leading real estate agents, Andrew Bell, has been appointed to REIA’s board of directors.
Effective October 2022, Bell will join the Real Estate Institute of Australia’s board of directors as associate director – Queensland.
Bell will bring his more than 40 years of experience in the real estate industry to the position, including his time running the largest independently owned real estate group in Queensland.
“Mr Bell owns and operates the Ray White Surfers Paradise Group with his brother Greg which has become the largest real estate company in Queensland employing over 200 staff operating through a wide range of real estate activities from all forms of residential, prestige homes, project marketing, commercial and industrial,” said Hayden Groves, president at REIA.
“He is regarded as one of Australia’s most experienced and professional real estate agents and auctioneers.”
Bell will join the REIA board on an initial two-year term from 2022 through to 2024, to help the board better represent the Queensland market.
“The role of Additional Director is to provide specialist Queensland based strategic advice to deliver the just launched REIA 2025 – Advancing Australia’s Prosperity. This initiative was created in a bid to restore national representation and the important voice of Queensland real estate practitioners to the REIA Board,” said Groves.
“It is our view Queensland-based agents are equally deserving of expressing their opinions of REIA’s national policy and strategic objectives and Mr Bell was an outstanding candidate in a very competitive field.”
Bell himself referred to the work REIA does as essential for the real estate industry and all Australians invested in the real estate market.
“To be able to work with federal representatives of all persuasion and with significant industry bodies involved in the real estate industry to provide them with a united voice and real time insights to all the issues that are affecting everyone engaged in the real estate market,” said Bell.
“I will be particularly keen to provide the unique Queensland perspective, given that many of the unique aspects of our market, and particularly of late significantly added pressures from the huge migration into the state of Queensland.”
