Careers

Advantages and Benefits Of Associating with Intracoastal Realty

Intracoastal Realty continues to lead the Cape Fear region’s real estate market in total closed volume.  Intracoastal Realty is considered the company of choice by the discriminating client in the upper-end market. Intracoastal agents represent the finest professionals and work as a team to deliver extraordinary services to buyers and sellers.

Our behind-the-scenes support personnel and systems are unparalleled. Join our team, become associated with the premier real estate agency in the area, and enjoy the following benefits:

Residential Division Offices:

  • Premium retail locations
  • Attractive office spaces with well-equipped work areas
  • Eight locations provide for more than 250 agents, including offices in Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, Topsail Island, Oak Island, and Carolina Beach

Residential Divisions Staff:

  • Agents have access to an “Agent Manager” who provides a consistent source of information and services
  • Attentive to agent and office needs
  • Maintain supplies and work stations
  • Data entry provided on listings
  • Manage files and coordinate all administrative responsibilities

Training and Development:

  • A full-time Director of Education and Development
  • In-house Continuing Education
  • Offers Thursday seminars/workshops to strengthen skills
  • Weekly educational tips provided at sales meetings
  • The Marketplace Academy offers pre-licensing and post-licensing courses
  • Library with book, tapes and DVDs for self-improvement

Marketing

  • Extensive internet marketing for Intracoastal properties
  • Regional and national advertisements in many upscale publications
  • Full page ads in local real estate directories, local and state magazines and local newspapers
  • In-house marketing director, graphic artist, and marketing coordinator
  • Assistance available with all agent marketing and promotional needs, including direct mailings and postcard design, business cards and stationary, personal promotional pieces, brochures, flyers
  • Provides an easy-to-order line of company clothing
  • Coordinates the "Connections" direct mail program and the e-Connections email marketing program
  • Designs and mails new agent announcements
  • Generous color copy allowance for agents
  • Frequent training sessions held to keep agents updated on marketing technologies and trends

Technology Division:

  • Full time Vice President of Technology with two full-time staff technicians who are on the “cutting edge” of computer technology
  • Maintains networks systems throughout the company, seven days a week
  • Ready and available for computer assistance throughout the day
  • Maintains wireless offices
  • Computer problem solving by “shadowing”
  • Provide computer training in all areas, including MLS, our network system, email, basic computer skills, advanced computer training
  • Training is on-going
  • Service to your home computer for a small fee
  • Assistance in purchasing a computer, for business or home

Relocation Department:

  • Full time Director of Relocation and assistant
  • Handles all incoming and outgoing referrals through our affiliate, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, the nation’s largest network of premier independent real estate brokers
  • Professional services to leading local corporations, recruiters and businesses

New Homes and Condominiums Division:

  • Works directly with developers and builders to bring new home communities to market
  • Oversees the success of new developments from site selection through closing
  • Provides inventory for in-house sales
  • Provides professional assistance for agents who manage their own new home communities

Property Management Division:

  • Manages over 250 vacation homes, condominiums, and townhouses
  • Offers two types of annual property management agreements for your investment buyers
  • Pays referral fees to licensed agents

MORE MAJOR BENEFITS:

Affiliations:

  • Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®

    Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE) is the largest network of top independent local and regional brand-name brokerage firms in the residential sector of real estate.  The 600 firms affiliated with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE) are represented by 5,000 offices and 150,000 associates in more than 30 countries worldwide. The organization's leadership is demonstrated by the fact that its affiliates comprise six of the top 10 real estate companies in the country. Collectively, LeadingRE affiliates produced nearly 1 million home sales valued at $250 billion in the U.S. in 2009. In addition, LeadingRE affiliates hold the Number One position in terms of sales or volume in more of the top markets than any other organization.  Visit them at http://www.leadingre.com.  

  • Luxury Portfolio

    Luxury Portfolio International™ (http://www.luxuryportfolio.com) is the luxury face of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (www.leadingre.com), the largest global network of premier locally branded companies dominated by many of the world's most powerful independent luxury brokerages. Luxury Portfolio’s award-winning website was launched in 2005 and in its first year featured more $1 million-plus residences than other luxury real estate organizations and has grown to over 15,000 of the world's most remarkable homes and attracts over 1.2 million high-net-worth visitors a year.

Commission Checks:

  • Ready when you return from your closing with the HUD statement
  • No waiting, not even a day

Agent Fees:

  • No Franchise fee
  • No Technology fee
  • No Marketing fee
  • Voice mail services…$10 per month, optional
  • Fax services to email… $10 per month, optional
  • Fees generated by agent’s use of services
  • E&O deducted from closings rather than a monthly charge
  • Free announcements sent to agent’s sphere of influence

PR Announcements:

  • Professionally written and submitted to local media in a timely fashion
  • Shows pride in recognizing agents and their successes in all their endeavors

Sales Meetings:

  • Several offices meet together in specially designed media room
  • Weekly reports on Relocation, New Homes, Mortgage, Marketing, Professional Development, and more
  • Team Player of the Week recognized
  • Outstanding production recognized
  • Latest listings shown on the screen
  • Opportunities for agents to highlight their new listings
  • Agent success stories shared
  • Drawings and fun contests

Community Support:

  • Charitable giving encouraged and modeled
  • Teacher’s Fund (founded by CEO Jim Wallace)
  • Agents involved in volunteer work across all sectors

Company Culture:

  • Friendly, caring agent oriented company
  • Commitment to strong values
  • Tradition of excellence
  • Our goal: to exceed your expectations
  • Well-trained staff whose goals are to provide systems and resources in order to enable agents to do what they do best: list and sell properties
  • Largest agent population of local, high profile, residents

Real Estate Education

Click here to visit The Market Place Academy our affiliate real estate training school.

Take our Core Capacities Index Test

We’ve spent a large amount of our own time and resources studying the real estate agent position and our own employees for the purpose of quantifying the unique recipe of core capacities a person needs in order to find engagement in our organization.

From this study, we’ve developed an understanding of what core capacities tend to make people successful as real estate agents in our company. We would like to give you an opportunity to complete a ten minute evaluation to learn this information as well.

The Core Capacities Index™ (CCI) is quick, easy, and confidential. You’ll get to review your results immediately following completion of the assessment. Taking the CCI is one of the quickest things you can do to become more aware of your strengths and values, learn how you perform best, and become more purposeful in your day-to-day tasks. In addition, we'll be able to tell you if your unique recipe of core capacities is closely aligned with the people in our organization who flourish in their day-to-day tasks.

To get started, please click here.

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