by Doah Sto. Tomas | Feb 21, 2023
Beyond the Screen: How Real Estate sellers Can Successfully Make the Shift from Online to Face-to-Face Selling
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way we live and work, including the real estate industry. With social distancing and stay-at-home orders in place, real estate agents have had to adapt to online selling to continue their businesses. Virtual tours, video conferencing, and digital paperwork have become the new norm in the industry. However, as the world begins to open up, it is essential for agents to transition back to face-to-face selling. Here are some tips to help agents make the transition successfully.
Keep Your Online Presence Strong: Just because you’re transitioning back to face-to-face selling doesn’t mean that your online presence isn’t important. Many potential buyers still prefer to begin their home search online, so it’s crucial to keep your website and social media profiles up to date. Be sure to include high-quality photos, virtual tours, and detailed property descriptions to attract potential buyers.
Reconnect with Your Network: One of the benefits of face-to-face selling is the ability to network and connect with other professionals in the industry. Reach out to your existing network of contacts, including past clients, lenders, and other agents, to let them know you’re back to face-to-face selling. Consider hosting a networking event or attending industry conferences to meet new contacts and expand your network.
Stay Up to Date with Health Guidelines: While the world is opening up, it’s important to remember that the pandemic is not over. It’s crucial to stay up to date with local health guidelines and follow recommended safety protocols. This includes wearing masks, social distancing, and limiting the number of people during property showing and open houses.
Plan Your Showings Carefully: When transitioning back to face-to-face selling, it’s essential to plan your showings carefully. Consider the safety of your clients and yourself by limiting the number of people in the property at one time, avoiding physical contact, and offering hand sanitizer and masks. Schedule showings with ample time in between to allow for cleaning and ventilation of the property.
Be Prepared to Answer Questions: As buyers return to face-to-face selling, they may have questions about the transition from online selling. Be prepared to answer questions about the safety protocols you’re following, what to expect during showings, and how you’re adapting to the changing market.
The transition from online to face-to-face selling in the real estate industry may be challenging, but it’s essential for agents to stay ahead of the game. By keeping your online presence strong, reconnecting with your network, staying up to date with health guidelines, planning your showings carefully, and being prepared to answer questions, you can successfully make the transition. With these tips in mind, you’ll be ready to help clients find their dream homes in person once again.
by Doah Sto. Tomas | Feb 3, 2023
CRB Christine Faye S. Figueras
For the month of love, we’re highlighting, a lovable real estate broker. She graduated from New Era University with a degree in psychology in 2005 and has taken units in the master’s program at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila between 2007 and 2009.
She was first trained as a business system analyst at BDO Unibank from 2008 to 2013 in a stressful, if not toxic work environment. This pushed her to pursue the life of a real estate broker when she passed the licensure exam. She was encouraged to pursue a career in real estate by her mother, a real estate broker with REBAP Global City. Her husband supported her in choosing that course of action as well. She started as a real estate agent under DMCI In-house sales from 2013 to 2014. Although her job in real estate wasn’t always easy, with bumpy roads, her mother acted as her mentor to develop the necessary knowledge and abilities in real estate. Her prior experience in the banking sector also aided her in performing a variety of jobs and providing her clients with acceptable service. This pushed her to pursue the life of a real estate broker when she passed the licensure.
CRB Christine Jaye S. Figueras struggles as a real estate broker have paid off since she loved the life of being financially independent, going on holidays, spending time with her family, shopping, socializing, and attending events. She enjoyed earning, spending more time with her family, and interacting with clients. As a result, she become a professional real estate broker and self-employed in 2015.
by Doah Sto. Tomas | Jan 19, 2023
January is the month of all beginnings in a year. Its primacy is for making decisions for the whole year of abundance. The primacy of abundance is the love of God first according to our featured broker who is a graduate of BS Business Administration major in Business Management from La Consolacion College of Manila.
She is an accredited marketer of the Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA) since 2008 and served as a trustee of the board of Accredited Marketer’s Association, Inc. of PRAor PRAAMAI from 2008 to 2012.
She never planned to be a broker. It was her former Japanese Sacho (boss) who pushed and supported her to attend Real Estate Seminar. She passed the Real Estate Professional Examination in 2014.
Her other current corporate functions are Director and Corporate Secretary, Zipang Property Management, Inc.; Director, Let’s Light Up, Inc.; and Corporate Secretary, Asahi Asia Construction, Inc.
As a true-bloodied manager, she founded her own company, the Philsworld Documentation Services in 2010. The company is doing documentation support and advice on living, investing and conducting business in the Philippines to both foreign expats and locals.
Ladies and gentlemen, please meet CRB Maria Lourdes Gonzales Santos, a mother and a workaholic broker.
by Donald Montellano | Dec 29, 2022
Year 2022 is a year for REBAP Global City Chapter as first time in its Chapter and REBAP History that it bagged the 5 Major REBAP National Awards and was awarded last December 27, 2022 during REBAP Anniversary and Christmas Party held at Kalayaan Hall, Club Filipino, Greenhills, San Juan City.
REBAP Global City Chapter took the 2022 Best Chapter (Large Category), which means membership with over 50 members in a chapter. It bested Cavite Chapter for 1st Runner-up and Caloocan Chapter for 2nd Runner-up.
Out of 45 Chapters nationwide, REBAP National Awards commended the REBAP Global City top operational Vice Presidents the 2022 Most Outstanding Awards for their Exceptional Performances namely: Vice President for Management Information System (MIS) CRB Rhodora DM. Sto. Tomas, Vice President for Internal Affairs CRB Joyce L. Manzano and Vice President for External Affairs CRB Edgar Allan J. Agaton.
As a highlight in the event, REBAP Global City Chapter President CRB Lorenzo “Third” Ballete III was also awarded the 2022 Most Outstanding President (Large Category).
Before the year ends, REBAP Global City Chapter fulfilled its mandate and affirmed its 2022 tagline “Leading At Its Best!”
by Doah Sto. Tomas | Sep 6, 2022
CRB KAREN ORIBIANA RIVERA
September is a symbol of the strength of character, marriage, and family, thus this month’s featured Real Estate Broker is a woman who is happily married with three children. The Greek playwright Euripides made a variety of references to women’s strength in his famous work on the Trojan Women.
As such, CRB Karen Oribiana Rivera is a true-blooded woman born in the year of the Dragon, who is gifted with innate courage, tenacity, and intelligence. She started her career in real estate in 2007 as a property consultant in Camella Homes, one of the country’s finest. In that same year, she passed the Real Estate Brokers licensure examination and subsequently became a REBAP member in 2008. From 2007 to 2010, she became a sales manager of CDC Holdings. A year later when she left CDC, she established an independent brokerage. Truly, she is a woman who is not afraid of challenges and is always willing to take risks.
As an epitome of a woman in Euripides’ essay, she remains enthusiastic and confident as a professional broker who is engaged in an array of specializations, such as titling transfer; project, condominium, and memorial lots selling; re-subdividing property; and loan assistance.
With these, her name has been attached to the following housing companies, such as; Camella Homes, DMCI, CDC Holdings, Mololex, Masaito, Antel Addas Group, Earth & Style, Exceed Realty, Carissa Homes, Balikatan, and Homemark.
Strong will, passion, perseverance, and selflessness made her the Best Chapter Member of REBAP Global City.
by Doah Sto. Tomas | Aug 1, 2022
CRB RAISSA MADLANGBAYAN
August can never be a ghost month, because for a woman, every month, every day, every hour is a precious time for perseverance and hard work. Thus, our featured broker for August is a woman with a virtue of positivity, born at the right time and place.
My dear colleagues in the industry, please meet CRB Raissa R. Madlangbayan, an achieving woman with two distinct assets: chivalrous and gallant, being born in the Year of the Pig, and loyal and determined, being a true Capricornian. The chemistry of these virtues, which at a young age in her late 30s, made her the co-founder of the RMS Realty Inc. in November 2021, with a present address in Penthouse 2, VGP Center, Ayala Avenue Makati.
She had become the person she is now because of the character and values developed and nurtured in her during her education at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila with the BS Psychology course.
She took advantage of various opportunities with rich imagination and sharp observations about people, especially those related to business. She began by opening a family business from 2005 to 2007, and then from 2007 to 2009, she worked as a BPO Customer Service Outbound Representative for Xcelerate Center Inc. and Sutherland. She used this as her experience and stepping stone to becoming a Property Specialist with SM Investments Corporation, Hamilo Coast–Pico De Loro, and Tagaytay Highlands (2009–2010), then with Robinsons Land Corporation (2010–2013) selling condominium units.
Armed with knowledge and skills related to real estate properties, propped up with determination, in 2013, she attended classes at the Urban Institute of Real Estate and successfully passed the Real Estate Broker Examination the following year. She engaged in resale luxury properties in high-end villages, such as McKinley Hill Village, Bel Air Village, San Lorenzo Village, Urdaneta Village, Dasmarinas Village, Forbes Park Village, and Class A condominiums in Makati and BGC to name some. At the same time, she handled the leasing of ex-pat accounts, such as ADB and other multinational companies. Supported by her tenacity and license, she stands up to be a Freelance Real Estate Broker from 2014 to 2021.
With this strong momentum in her career as a registered real estate broker, she co-founded RMS Realty Inc. in November of last year, a general brokerage company specializing in real estate leasing, resale, and pre-selling.
Now that she is a manager of what she started, she is in charge of setting the company’s objectives and plans, overseeing the entire staff, and ensuring the overall accountability of the business to shareholders and the general public.
