The Australasian Real Estate Institutes’ Auctioneering Championships is an annual event conducted jointly by the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) and the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) representing the most skilled auctioneers that Australia and New Zealand have to offer.
The inaugural Auctioneering Championships were first held in 1991 between the Real Estate Institutes of Tasmania and Victoria to provide an opportunity to showcase their best auctioneers. In 1993, the concept was then adopted by the Real Estate Institute of South Australia and held every two years. As time went on all other states and territories also adopted the concept whereby subsequently in 2005 all the state/territory Real Estate Institutes (REIs) and REINZ adopted the concept and the Championships become an annual event becoming the most prestigious event on the Australasian auctioneering calendar.
Each state and territory Real Estate Institute and the REINZ arrange and hold their individual competitions to determine their best two auctioneers who then go on to compete in the Australasian Real Estate Institutes’ Auctioneering Championships.
The annual event is rotated around the different states and territories of Australia with New Zealand hosting the event every four years.
The 2022 Australasian Real Estate Institutes' Auctioneering Championships were jointly hosted by the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales from 17 to 18 October 2022 and after a tight competition Clarence White of New South Wales was awarded Australasia's best auctioneer for 2022.
Clarence White
Past Winners of the prestigious Australasian Real Estate Institutes’ Auctioneering Championship
2022 | Clarence White | New South Wales |
2019 | Justin Nickerson | Queensland |
2018 | Andrew North | New Zealand |
2017 | Justin Nickerson | Queensland |
2016 | Justin Nickerson | Queensland |
2015 | Harry Li | Victoria |
2014 | Andrew North | New Zealand |
2013 | Daniel Coulson | New Zealand |
2012 | Daniel Coulson | New Zealand |
2011 | Mark Sumich | New Zealand |
2010 | Jason Andrew | Queensland |
2009 | Phil McGoldrick | New Zealand |
2008 | Mark Sumich | New Zealand |
2007 | Mark Sumich | New Zealand |
2006 | Scott Kennedy-Green | New South Wales |
2005 | Justin Long | Victoria |
2003 | Peter Kakos | Victoria |
2001 | Michael McCarthy | Victoria |
1999 | John McGrath | New South Wales |
1997 | Peter Hawkins | Victoria |
1995 | Peter Batrouney | Victoria |
1993 | Michael Brock | South Australia |
Should any auctioneer in any state or territory or New Zealand be interested in participating please contact, in the first instance, your state or territory Real Estate Institute and note you must be a financial member of the participating Real Estate Institute.