BOB JONES: Another Maori wonderfulness absurdity
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- Mar 28, 2023
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Real estate agents operate under the Real Estate Agents Act, needless to say overseen by a farcically large Wellington bureaucracy.
The Act’s expressed objectives are the regulating of real estate agents, the raising of standards and to provide a disciplinary process to deal with complaints, all plainly worthy.
By law agents must renew their licence to practise each year. Now brace yourself.
This year the licensing authority has come up with a new angle, specifically that henceforth for agents to renew their licenses they will be required to undertake and pay for a special study course in “the maori world view (maori customs, protocols and the maori language)”.
To that end they’ve engaged an outfit called Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, described as an educational institution, to deliver this nonsense for a fee. They will do this by making agents watch an online video for an hour and a half and in return, at $29 per agent, will pocket circa $600,000.
This rubbish is simply trendy gangsterism against a currently hard-pressed service industry. It’s also ludicrous. There is no bloody maori perspective on buying, selling or renting property.
These are tough times for real estate and over the next two years I suspect their numbers will reduce by at least a third and possibly more as reliant on commissions, agents find their income falls to zilch.
That aside, given their often irrational obsession with property, why not a compulsory study course on “Chinese customs, protocols and language”? If not, why not, after all I’d wager for every real estate transaction with a maori there’s at least 20 with members of our Chinese community. Imagine the carry-on if it were they subject to this rubbish as diverse commentators would rightly protest at its absurdity.
This nonsense is a disgraceful burden on the currently hard pressed real estate agency business and requires Ministerial intervention to put a halt to it.
Sir Bob Jones is a renowned author, columnist, property investor, and former politician, who blogs at No Punches Pulled HERE.
Just wait til co-governance..🙄
This nonsense gets worse. Next years compulsory REA, so called training is how to deal with our lbgtq+ citizens. Why the REA feels it needs to single this group out is beyond me and other agents ive spoken to. Salespeople by the very nature of their work are highly mindful/ sensitive of all New Zealanders.
Bob, I have a collection of your writings and commentary's published over the years and of course most cherished is that book of blank pages, Labors record of accomplishments, which true to your record, they have steadfastly maintained to this day.
But Bob, you have apparently missed the most vital aspect of this new regulated Real Estate training program.
Under this protocol you could sell your entire property portfolio and before the ink is dry on the contract, sell it all over again to another, receiving full and final settlement, so that you can then sell it yet again, all the while claiming that your sale never really conferred any actual transfer of title. Having spent the proceeds on fa…
What a load of rubbish. Why an earth should a real estate agent have to learn Maori protocols etc?
Makes no sence to me. Perhaps the agents need to stand up as a collective and say no we arnt going to learn a language that will probably be of no use to us.
I've not heard of anything do damn rediculous.
I sent the following to the PM.
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Here are some figures for ethnic groups living in NZ
70.2% Europeans Be nice if everyone knew how to use English correctly, wouldn’t it? Won’t ever happen though with our failed education system,.
16.5% Māori (775,840 people)
15.1% Asian (707,600 people)
8.1% Pacific people (381,640 people)
1.5% Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African (MELAA) (70,330 people).
Why in the arrogance of your fascism are you forcing real estate agents to learn maori when there is only just over 1% more maori than Asians living in NZ , More Asians will be buying and selling houses than maori I bet.
Why not in include Chinese?.…