World's largest estate agent comes to Bay

Chris Gardner
Don Offen started with nothing when he opened the Napier branch of real estate company Century 21.
Asked whether he was happy with the progress made, since Hawke's Bay's first branch of the world's largest residential real estate sales organisation opened two months ago, the company principal said he was not.
"We are never happy, we have started off with zero," he said.
But that doesn't stop Mr Offen from being optimistic, with plans to expand into Hastings.
Mr Offen said the opening of the branch has created nine new jobs, with a further three in the pipeline.
Century 21 has more than 6600 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices in more than 30 countries across the world.