International agent joins RE/MAX ranks

A top London estate agent is ploughing back his expertise gained abroad into his hometown of Port Elizabeth as Re/Max Independent's newest recruit.

Born and raised in PE, Bernard Richter started his career in the property industry after a shoulder injury while playing rugby abroad forced him to find alternative employment. He started his career at the London-based Rolfe East estate agency and quickly moved through the ranks. Richter was also the first manager at his company to gain his National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) qualification, which consisted of various examinable subjects such as property law, practice and procedure, financial crime, building design, consumer protection regulation as well as ombudsman compliance and rules.