English skills essential for real estate property sales and management
Posted By Webmaster on August 29, 2010
English skills essential for real estate property sales and management
Now is the time for people working in the real-estate market to improve their English language skills with a number of recent reports quoting different Bangkok property developers confident that there will be an upturn in demand for new apartments and houses over the next year.
 English language skills are vital for working in the real estate industry |
In particular, these companies emphasize their belief in a growth in sales at the luxury end of the market, that is, residences which have a price tag of many millions of baht.
Prospective purchasers of these up-scale properties of course include expatriates, thus highlighting the need for staff working in the property sector to be able to communicate effectively in English.
The whole process of completing a successful property transaction is wide-ranging and complex, not surprising given the very large amount of money involved. Major areas of focus include:
• Advertising and marketing the apartment, house or estate
• Arranging inspections of the property with clients
• Describing the site in details, both externally and internally
• Talking about the environs and the available facilities
• Explaining the legal issues
• Discussing how the purchase will be financed
• Closing the deal.
Furthermore, the staff of the management office situated at the location need to deal with the non-Thai residents on various matters, with English being the main language of communication.
There are extensive specific vocabulary sets for each of the above stages of real estate selling and management, and English Click is able to provide a tailor-made English language training course, complete with a customized course booklet, for those working in the real estate property sales and management industry.
English language vocabulary:
real estate (noun): property consisting of land or buildings
quoting (verb): repeat or copy out (a group of words from a text or speech)
confident (adjective): holding a strong belief that your ideas or actions will be successful
emphasize (verb): stress
residences (noun): places where people live
price tag (noun / noun): sale price
prospective (adjective): possible
up-scale (adjective): top end of the market
expatriates (noun): people who live in a country other than their own
transaction (noun): a particular business / financial deal or process
complex (adjective): consisting of many detailed parts
inspection (noun): a visit to and look over of a property
environs (noun): the general surrounding area of a residence
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