Lorraine began selling Real Estate in Lower Hutt in the late 1980’s after a 15 year career with the Bank of New Zealand. In 1990 she completed the qualification which enabled her to operate her own Real Estate Company and up until March 2020 she has been the Director of Selig Real Estate Ltd and Manager of the Lower Hutt office.

Although Lorraine enjoys management responsibilities she feels her best qualities are her people skills. Therefore, in March 2020 she decided to close Selig Real Estate and choose to join the Lower Hutt Harcourts Team to concentrate on her big love—selling Residential Real Estate.

In the 45 years Lorraine has lived in Lower Hutt she has lived in 4 different suburbs, has been involved in many community organisations and her children attended local schools. Therefore, she has a great appreciation and in-depth knowledge of what the wider Hutt Valley has to offer.
Lorraine has been married to Barry, a banker for 40 years. As Barry has now retired, you will see him helping Lorraine at open homes, he also assists her with other facets of her business. Both Lorraine and Barry are active members of Rotary Hutt Valley, in fact they have both been made Paul Harris Fellows, Rotary’s highest award for service to Rotary and the community. In 2016, Lorraine was further granted Rotary’s prestigious Sapphire Pin.

Lorraine’s interests outside real estate evolve around the community and her family and friends and all the Hutt Valley has to offer. This includes daily swimming in the local pools for exercise and in the summer swimming in the harbour and sea kayaking. She is an avid reader and enjoys travel, art history, gardening and together with her husband, helping their children with their home renovations and gardens and enjoying her 2 young grandchildren.

Lorraine remain passionate about selling Hutt Valley Real Estate, she has sold over $363 million of residential property and is proud of her achievements because of her career choice all those years ago.

John started in Real Estate in 2005 after a long career in the Timber and Building Industry.

Having lived all his life in the Hutt Valley, John and his family reside in Kelson where they built their family home 25 years ago.

John is totally committed to achieving the best possible result for his clients, whatever the prevailing market conditions are at the time.

Real Estate is all about people, and testimony to that it is the repeat and referral business that has come back to John simply because of his previous hard work, honesty, integrity, and common sense approach to achieving the desired end result.

In his spare time his family is a priority, and John is also actively involved with the Avalon Tennis Club of which he has been part of since 1997 and on the Management team since 2000.

If you are looking for a sales professional who will care for and respect your property as if it were their own and make your move a positive experience, then call for a confidential chat.