Peter Driver - Professionals Real Estate

About

Buying or selling in Invercargill and surrounds?
Phone Peter Driver - Professionals Real Estate on 0210 498 747
MREINZ - Licensed Real Estate Agent.

Story

On leaving school, catering college was calling me and I trained for 3 years as a chef. But, after a stint in the channel Islands I headed back to the North East of England and took a position running a kitchen in a local wine bar.
Little did I know that within a couple of months a career change was on the horizon and in 1988 I joined an Infantry regiment in the British army. 5 years later and a civilian again, I went back to hospitality and joined a small pub company in London as one of their managers running all manner of bars and restaurants within the city. During this time in the late 90's, I met a very smart, gorgeous Kiwi lady called Nicki (now my wife of 16 years) and, in the November 1999 we married in Arrowtown then head back to London for a couple of years before moving here for good in 2002.
We owned a well known coffee shop in Wanaka until 2009, and, in that time we had our daughter Holly in 2006 and established a base in Invercargill in the same year to be closer to family. My wife established herself in the finance community and I became, what it seemed at the time, one of Invercargill's first stay at home dad's. I loved the role to the point that I volunteered at the local Plunket Society and ran the weekly music and movement group for a year... Great fun!!
When Holly started Kindie, I took on a new challenge and trained as a swimming teacher and spring board instructor at the local swimming pool. They were fantastic times. I'd been at the pool for 3-4 years when I was asked by the owners of an award winning cafe in town to help out and cover as one of them had had an accident that involved a chainsaw, tree and ladder. 3 months was the recovery time but I ended up staying for just over a year as I was having so much fun.
In that time I studied and qualified as a salesperson and joined the Professionals team in the February of 2015. I love this industry.
Transparency, customer care, commitment and going above and beyond are words that would describe me. I hope to hear from you soon.