The Real Estate Locum

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The Route

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The Real Estate Locum

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Step away
without disappearing

Licensed cover for real estate agents who need time away.

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The Real Estate Locum

Take a break. Keep your business moving. When you need time away, I step in and run your listings under your banner. Open homes, vendors, paperwork, all handled the way you do it. When you return, you get it all back.

2013

Licensed since

No commission

Fixed weekly fee

Nationwide

Anywhere in New Zealand

“Cool calm and collected”

Seller, Karaka

RateMyAgent · 4.9 from 16 reviews

What it is

Cover for your listings while you take time away

A locum is a stand-in

Doctors have them. Real estate agents have not, so when an agent needs time away the only option has been another agent, usually a competitor.

The stand-in for agents

The Real Estate Locum is the stand-in for agents. I step in, keep your listings running under your banner, then hand everything back. One fixed weekly fee. No commission.

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How it works

Sorted before you leave

Step 01

Talk it through

A short call about your listings, your vendors, your dates and what you need covered.

Step 02

Put it in writing

One clear agreement: fee, scope, reporting and handover. Signed before I start.

Step 03

I step in

Open homes, vendors, paperwork, the way you do it. Where it makes sense, I come to an open home with you before you go, so your vendors have met me.

Step 04

I hand it back

When you are back, you get a full handover of where every listing stands, and I move on.

Why I built this

It happened to me first

In 2024 I had to step away from my own business for health reasons. I found out first-hand what it costs an agent to have nobody they can trust to cover for them. The arrangement I made did not hold, and it cost me.

The lesson was simple.

Have the right person in place before you need them.

Spell everything out.

Put it in writing.

That is what The Real Estate Locum is built on.

The problem

When did you last take a proper holiday?

Ask any agent and they will tell you they want one. Phone off, a real break. Most never take it, because the only people who can cover for them are competitors. So they keep going. Through the school holidays, the wedding, the operation that keeps getting put off. This job takes a lot, and good agents give it.

Cover for

A holiday

Illness or surgery

Burnout

Family

Study

The unexpected

My promise

Your business stays yours

I work under your banner, not mine. Your signs stay up, your name stays on the listing, and your vendors keep dealing with your business. I am not there to build a client list or move into your area. When you come back, everything is where you left it.

Your banner

Your signs, your branding, your name on every listing.

Your patch

I am there to hold it, not to move in.

Your commission

I work for a fixed weekly fee. The commission stays yours.

Your terms

What I do, how I report and when I hand back, all agreed in writing before I start.

While you’re away

The work carries on, the way you do it

Before you leave, you walk me through how you run things. Then I run them that way. Anything that needs your decision waits for you, or reaches you the way we agreed.

Open homes

This weekend

Karaka

Sat · 11:00–11:30

Your signs

Waiuku

Sun · 1:00–1:30

Your signs

Open homes and viewings

Run on your schedule, under your signs.

Vendor updates

Today

Call with your vendor

2:21 PM

Vendor update sent

Open home feedback shared

2:23 PM

Vendor updates

Your vendors hear from me as often as they would from you.

Vendor report

Karaka

Lifestyle block

Updated today

Listing admin

Done

Documentation

Done

Reports and paperwork

Vendor reports, listing admin and the documentation kept current.

Your listings

Karaka

Lifestyle block

Active

Waiuku

Family home

Active

Pukekohe

Townhouse

Active

Listing management

Every listing stays active and looked after.

Weekly report

Friday 5:00 PM

Where each listing stands

What happened

What is coming

A weekly report to you

Where each listing stands, what happened, what is coming.

The fee

One fixed weekly fee. No commission.

The fee is agreed in writing before I start, and it does not change while I am covering you.

Check dates and fees

What you pay

One fixed weekly fee

plus GST, plus any expenses we agree up front.

What you don’t pay

No commission.

No percentage of anything that sells. No handshake deals.

What you keep

Your commission, your vendors, your listings.

Wherever you are

Anywhere in New Zealand

I travel the country in a motorhome, so I can be wherever you are. Regional and rural areas are no harder for me to cover than the city, and I am already on the road.

Nationwide

Regional and rural

Short notice where I can

A week or longer

Ask about your area

Nationwide

On the road

Robbie Robson

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

About Robbie

13 years in real estate. 25 representing other people’s businesses.

Before real estate, I spent more than 25 years in freight, import and manufacturing, much of it representing other companies overseas. Their name on the door, their standards, their customers. In 2013 I moved into real estate, with Harcourts, Bayleys and later my own company. Stepping into someone else’s business and running it properly is the job I have always done. A locum is the same job.

Licensed salesperson since May 2013

Harcourts, Bayleys and my own company

Clean licence

Reviews

What vendors and buyers have said about working with me

4.9

16 reviews on RateMyAgent

I sold homes for 13 years before this. These are from the people I sold for and sold to, on RateMyAgent. 4.9 stars from 16 reviews.

Cool, calm and collected. No pressure. Always available. Unflappable.

“Cool calm and collected”

Seller, Karaka

RateMyAgent

“Good advise & information given under no pressure”

Buyer, Clarks Beach

RateMyAgent

“Very experienced and with a professional approach to Real Estate”

Seller, Waiau Pa

RateMyAgent

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Questions

Questions agents ask

What happens if a listing sells while you are covering me?

The sale stays under your name. What happens with the commission is set out in our agreement before I start, so there is nothing to work out afterwards.

Will my vendors know someone else is covering?

Yes. Where we can, I meet them with you before you go, usually at an open home. They know who I am, why I am there and that you are coming back.

How much notice do you need?

As much as you can give for planned leave. Life does not always give notice, though. If something has come up, call me and we will see what is possible.