Harden local Rosie Fairfield-Smith has returned to the Twin Towns.
After moving to boarding school in year eight, to a gap year in the U.K working as a sports coach, to studying and working as a nurse for three years in Sydney and Wollongong, to then learning the ropes of real estate under Belle Property, the arrival of her two twins brought Rosie back to Harden – nearly 15 years later.
Rosie spent her time at a boarding school in Mittagong, becoming the Head Girl and signing up for any sport that was on, a trait that would follow her to the U.K, where she worked as well as enjoying her gap year.
Despite returning to Australia to study nursing at the University of Wollongong, Rosie “always had an underlying passion for real estate” that eventually inspired her to pursue a career with Belle Property, also situated in Wollongong, with her time as an ICU nurse also contributing to the shift in career path.
Rosie spent three years as a nurse, some of which required her to live in Sydney for a period of time.
After securing a job as a leasing consultant at Belle, she received most of her training on the job and completed her certificate of registration, realising her real estate dream one step at a time.
Just three months into her new career her tenacity was recognised, receiving a promotion to business development management, essentially working to create deals between landlords and her company and three months following that, she was given a job in sales.
Rosie’s contribution at Flemings in Harden in Sales and Property Management is her passion, although she mostly wants to focus on sales for the foreseeable future. Describing the market as“competitive” due to the pandemic and saying that properties “are just flying off the market… if we list something and it appeals… it’s gone within a week”.
Her ultimate goal would be to sell up to 10 properties in a month.
The housing market all across the region is as competitive as it has ever been, with private treaties currently the preferred selling method rather than auctions.
Rosie said that having her family-based here and recently having her two 14-month-old twins, are her biggest motivators for moving back. She was passionate about them receiving the same “great childhood” she had growing up on a farm in the Twin Towns.
Thomas Hanway
