Born in Wellington and educated at St Patrick’s College and Victoria University in Wellington Steve entered real estate in August 1993, having come from a background in property management. During the last 23 years, Steve’s Real Estate Career has included:
• Sales Manager for Challenge Realty’s Oriental Bay Office in 1996, during which time he took the office into the top ten in the Challenge Realty Group.
• Owner/Operator of three Challenge Realty Wellington offices in October 1997. During his 7 years at the helm, Steve grew the company from a sales team of twelve to a team of sixty eight sales people with four thousand house sales worth over 1.5 billion dollars!
• Restructuring Ray White Australia’s International Business model to increase their competitiveness with RE/MAX at a time when over 300 sales people, in Queensland alone, had left Ray White to join RE/MAX.
• Director of Operations for RE/MAX New Zealand in 2005, which involved a vast amount of travelling, attending a wide range of leading international industry training seminars in Denver, Chicago and Brisbane.
After more than four hundred flights during his three years in his corporate career, Steve decided to resign and return to what he loves doing most - selling real estate in Wellington. In 2007, Steve took up the position of Salesperson and Branch Sales Manager at Leaders Kilbirnie which he has held for nine years.

Successfully buying and selling real estate is about meeting people's needs, dreams and aspirations – and Lowe & co are a brand that exemplifies trust, honesty and integrity – attributes that Steve is passionate about!
The market is changing, the marketplace is strengthening, and Steve has been extremely impressed with Harcourts foresight and focus on Auction sales, where multiple buyers can help to achieve a higher sale price for a property. It is also one of the most transparent and preferred form of marketing for buyers.
His extensive experience in real estate spanning local, national and international markets is a huge benefit to his clients. This and his innovative and unique marketing techniques is ‘Setting a New BENCHMARQUE in Wellington Real Estate’.

Joy’s commitment to her clients is seven days a week, always striving her very hardest to ensure all transactions she is involved with are handled in a highly professional and proficient manner.

Born and raised in Wellington Joy has a daughter and a son who are both married and she has three adorable grandchildren Joy’s name is synonymous with Real Estate, selling properties in the Southern and Eastern suburbs. She has enjoyed a truly outstanding career over the past 25 years. She has proved her success by building strong meaningful relationships with her clients.

Joy is professional, focused, dedicated and works alongside her clients acting as a mentor with superb listening skills. Joy is passionate about the process of seeing through a transaction from start to finish and her strong negotiating and marketing skills are clearly the reason she is so successful.

Formerly with Harcourts Joy has been awarded many sales awards over the years from being No. 1 in Team Wellington and consistently in the Top 100 for New Zealand, No. 1. In Harcourts Kilbirnie, Top 20 for the Wellington region, receiving Silver and Bronze Sales Awards for 25 years and a $M150 Diamond Pin for sales in 2015.

In 2010 Joy joined REMAX for four years which was formerly Leaders in Wellington and received an Award for the 100% Club in Las Vegas. Joy rejoined Harcourts in 2014. Joy has made the decision to change companies and work with the team at Ray White in Kilbirnie and once again enjoy the “village” atmosphere.

Joy is a Licensed Branch Manager under REAA2008 and holds her National Certificate in Real Estate (NCRE) and is a member of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand

If you are considering your next move call Joy for a relaxed and informative discussion on any real estate matter. 0274535845 or email joy.baker@raywhite.com