Real Estate Alliance

Real Estate Alliance Seek Buyer’s Perspective

National Property Group Launch Second Buyer Survey –

February 2009 will see the results of the second Real Estate Alliance Buyer Survey, an exciting offering from the national property group that will reveal buyer attitude towards the property market. To be a part of the Real Estate Alliance Buyer survey and to be in with a chance to win a €500 Brown Thomas vouchers log onto www.realestatealliance.ie http://www.realestatealliance.ie  or drop into your local Real Estate Alliance office.

The Real Estate Alliance Buyer Survey, an extensive survey of the buying public around the country, will offer Real Estate Alliance members and their clients an insight into buyers currently active in the marketplace. The survey will target a cross-section of property purchasers including first time buyers, those trading up/down and investors, revealing invaluable information about their property requirements and priorities when it comes to purchasing.

Potential buyers who complete the online survey before the 13th of February will be in with a chance to win a €500 Brown Thomas voucher. The findings of the first Real Estate Alliance Buyer Survey will be available at the end of February and will reflect buyer’s perception of the property market. It will give an insightful snapshot of buyer’s minds at the beginning of 2009.

“We expect that the Real Estate Alliance Buyers Survey will help us to keep ahead of the game as it will offer a slightly different perspective from many of the survey’s already in the marketplace. Our survey will show the market from the buyer’s perspective rather than the economists, something we think will be invaluable to our members and clients”, said Chairman of Real Estate Alliance, Paul Grimes. Mr. Grimes is a director of Grimes Real Estate Alliance in Ashbourne and Skerries.

“The Real Estate Alliance Buyer Survey will afford an opportunity for us to learn of buyer’s opinions and thus enable us to better provide and facilitate them, the results of which will be of benefit to everyone,” concluded Mr. Grimes.

-      ENDS –

Note to Editors

National property group Real Estate Alliance has 38 member offices nationwide. Real Estate Alliance member firms draw on vast experience in offering clients a top class service in residential, commercial, valuations, sales, purchases, lettings, agricultural lands as well as land development for housing sites, acquisitions, planning, zoning and professional consultancy, including rent reviews, arbitrations, CPO’s, lease renewals and appraisals. Membership of Real Estate Alliance Ltd is only open to firms led by members of the IAVI or S.C.S

NOTE TO EDITORS

Real Estate Alliance is a strategic marketing alliance comprising some of the country�s best-established auctioneers and estate agents. Our key focus is on locally-owned and established estate agents. With one quarter of the alliance�s firms in business for more than a century, and with an existing IAVI president & five IAVI past presidents among the group�s members, the alliance is characterised by the established strength of its membership. In addition, membership is only open to firms led by members of the Irish Auctioneers & Valuers Institute or the Society of Chartered Surveyors.

Clients of REA members benefit from:

Real Advice

- Because member firms are locally-rooted and independently owned, they have first-hand market knowledge that ensures clients make only the best-informed real estate decisions.

Real Commitment

- Member firms are well established, leading local businesses built on delivering the best results for their clients.

Real Service

- Our member firms have the detailed understanding of the local property issues facing clients to ensure that they provide a superior range of client services.

Real Professionalism

- As Ireland\'s highest-qualified property professionals, REA sales staff are members of the IAVI or the SCS, the representative bodies for Ireland\'s top property professionals.

Real Confidence

- IAVI members complete far more property transactions than any other professional group. Our member firms harness this transaction volume to seize opportunities and speed the transaction process for you.

Real Coverage

- With more than 400 professional staff in 40 offices located nationwide, our member firms can provide the best real estate advice locally and nationwide.