In commercial real estate agency the goal setting process is quite important to the new business, listings, and commissions that you must to create. Without those goals and targets it is hard to know if you are improving individually, and or if that is applying across the team. Rarely will an entire team all reach peak listing and commission performance at the same time.
Any real estate agency without a successful performance management system and established goal structure is an agency that is doomed to failure. So many things happen given a seasonal listing and sales cycle that the trends and results from the market just have to be tracked; that tracking then should be related back to the performance of individual agents and salespeople. A successful real estate agency is a team effort.
Every property market is different and the same can be said of competing agencies within a market. The mix of property offering, listings available, and agency staff capability will all create challenges. Here are some rules to help you establish your goals and targets:
- Define the period and the market segment that will apply to the goals to be set. At any one time there will be differences between office, industrial, and retail property. The same can be said for sales and leasing activity in each. Assess your competitors as part of that process. What is your market share?
- Understand the history of the area when it comes to property transactions and time on market. Look for the patterns that apply to market activity. In any period of 12 months there is usually an activity period of 10 months where most of the business will come in. Look for the lag time between listing and closing on a transaction. What are people looking for in the market today and do you have plenty of those listings on your books or available for prospecting?
- What growth can you see in the property market and in what segments? Get details of the changes to population and business growth in your local area. Is there to be further opportunity for growth in those segments?
- Look for additional income or commission streams that can be built from sales and leasing activity. Generally that will be in property management, tenant retention planning, project leasing, renovation, or relocation strategies and plans. Set the critical factors of performance that matter to the business.
- Work from a basis of team goals and break that back to team members, territories, transactions, and property types. Get the team to come back with their estimates and targets given their market segments and property types.
- Set regular updates and progress meetings from those established and agreed goals.
A successful commercial real estate agency is a reflection of established business performance plans. The team targets are realistic for the available skill mix and the prevailing market conditions.
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