Golden Rules for Your Career in Commercial Real Estate

When you are to work in commercial real estate brokerage, there are some things to get right and implement at the earliest stages of your time in the industry.  The profession of commercial real estate will give you a lot of opportunities over time if you focus correctly. 

Your personal systems are the foundation of getting things done and improving your results.  Don’t take too long to implement these things.  Make it a successful vocation and boost your employment activities.

A career in commercial real estate brokerage is something special that you can optimise over time with unique skills, market specialisation, and property investment. Ultimately you should refine your skills so that you are matched into the clients that you want to serve for your location and your property type.

There’s always plenty of competition in commercial real estate so be prepared for the triggers of business activity how you can be competing against other agents and brokers locally.

So if you want to grow your career and commercial real estate, set the rules for your business day. Get out of the office each day so that you can reach out to new people and explore property opportunities. Cover the streets logically to a plan and a system. In doing that you will find buildings that you can work on and clients that you can serve. Some clients will be better than others, so make your choices and work with the best clients with high-quality buildings as part of their portfolio.

Engage with the local business community in every way possible, as those companies and corporations are the foundations of commercial real estate occupancy and change. In your location and territory, there will be local businesses to serve when it comes to sales, leasing, or property management.

So there are plenty of things for you to do and consider in your brokerage career.  Structure the prospecting plan that you can implement regularly in your career. Refine that prospecting plan over time so that you can reach out to ever more people in relevant and acceptable ways. That can then be the foundation of opportunity for you over time with new properties, new clients, and new transactions.

Don’t Be Ordinary in Real Estate Brokerage

The message behind all of this is that you should not be ordinary in any way or respect as a broker or an agent. Take steps to be unique and special when it comes to serving your clients with their property needs, and match your services directly into their portfolio. Get to know exactly what they need when it comes to property activity, investment challenges, and property choices. Understand their property pressures and challenges that could occur throughout the year, and position yourself for the best responses were possible.  Predict the client pressures of property change and churn. Be prepared to show the client where things can be improved for them with their existing portfolio.

Here is the podcast to tell you more about a career focus in this part of the real estate industry: