Estate agents board unveils internship programme for aspiring black agents
Estate Agency Affairs Board is hoping a 12-month-long internship programme it has unveiled will boost transformation in industry which is about 90% white THE Estate Agency Affairs Board is hoping that a 12-month-long internship programme it unveiled on Thursday for aspiring black agents will boost transformation in an industry which is about 90% white.Only about 10.5% of the country’s 40,000 estate agents are black.The one-learner-one-estate-agency programme is hoping to add 10,000 or more black estate agents to the market within the next three years. But there are concerns that the market will struggle to sustain so many new entrants."The real estate sector currently comprises about 10,000 estate agency enterprises and the idea is that if each of these companies took on one intern for a year, we could produce 10,000 trained agents," EAAB CEO Bryan Chaplog said.He said the EAAB would organise funding for each intern and that they would be given stipends."People struggle to enter the...
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