{"id":36756,"date":"2022-02-02T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=36756"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T20:04:11","slug":"forbes-lines-up-real-estate-super-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/forbes-lines-up-real-estate-super-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes lines up real estate super agents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are still waiting for\u00a0Forbes Australia<\/i>, the local offshoot of the global business magazine publisher,\u00a0to announce its local editor in chief, but a separate part of the Forbes global brand has just made a big play at the top end of the trophy real estate market.<\/p>\n

Forbes Global Property launched in 2020 and a local offshoot will launch in Australia this week. It has managed to pull in some very big names indeed. Think Bellevue Hill meets Toorak.<\/p>\n

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Ken Jacobs has held the fort for the local outpost of Christie\u2019s International Real Estate auction empire for 21 years. <\/span>CREDIT: <\/span>PETER BRAIG<\/cite><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The local licence has been snared by a gang of four which includes\u00a0Ken Jacobs<\/b>, who has headed up Christie\u2019s International Real Estate out of Double Bay in Sydney.<\/p>\n

In December, Jacobs took\u00a0little more than a week to secure about $30 million<\/a>\u00a0for the sale of the Bellevue Hill trophy home owned by film producer\u00a0Antoinette \u201cPopsy\u201d Albert<\/b>, of the Albert music impresario family who produced\u00a0Strictly Ballroom<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jacobs, who is an international board member of Forbes Global Property, is someone who knows the value of an international brand name, as he managed to hold the fort for the local outpost of sprawling Christie\u2019s International Real Estate auction empire for 21 years. He will maintain links with Christie\u2019s while working with Forbes.<\/p>\n

Also on board is\u00a0Michael Gibson<\/b>, the former long-time Kay & Burton managing director. Specialty subject: Toorak mansions.<\/p>\n

The pair are directors of Private Property Global, which has acquired the Australia Pacific licence for Forbes Global Property. Completing the team is ex-Ferrari executive\u00a0Robert Fletcher\u00a0<\/b>and property marketer extraordinaire\u00a0Tracey Atkins<\/b>, journalist and founder of Goldeneye Media.<\/p>\n

The real estate agency and magazine are planning lots of tie-ups when the latter launches mid-year. \u201cThe future of media and real estate is merging,\u201d Jacobs told CBD.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Gibson stepped down as Kay & Burton managing director and sold his shareholding three years ago but remained as an agent. He left the agency in November.<\/p>\n

In October, he helped to sell the most expensive house sold at auction in Australia, when\u00a0Sam Gance<\/b>, the owner of Chemist Warehouse, and wife\u00a0Janet Roach<\/b>,\u00a0The Real Housewives of Melbourne<\/em>\u00a0reality-TV show star,\u00a0dropped about $43 million on a five-bedroom, four-bathroom, six-car Toorak trophy home. The Lansell Road mansion has a cinema room, leisure centre, kitchen with a wood-fired pizza oven, chicken rotisserie and teppanyaki grill, and an adjoining service wing containing a laundry, powder room, mud room and housekeeper\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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