Two brokerages from different industries intend to leverage each other’s expertise and market penetration
Real estate and mortgage brokers occasionally work together, helping to keep each other’s respective pipelines full of clients, but now TMG The Mortgage Group and Nu Stream Realty are taking it a step further.
The firms announced a partnership in which TMG will help the real estate brokerage launch and fine tune its mortgage division by sharing administrative, compliance and underwriting acumen.
“They were looking to expand and offer additional services because their clients were constantly asking them for mortgages, so they were looking for a partner to help facilitate that,” said TMG’s Vice-President in B.C. Dan Pultr. “We’ve done some transactions for them on both the commercial and residential sides, and they like the fact that we can help them address all their needs.”
For its part, Nu Stream has been on an impressive growth trajectory since its 2016 inception, having already done $3bln in transactions. Although it mainly operates in the Vancouver and Toronto regions, Nu Stream is reputed among the cities’ Chinese communities, which have reputations for being among the country’s savviest real estate purchasers.
While TMG will share its wherewithal and resources with Nu Stream, it hopes to benefit from the latter’s market penetration.
“We hope to leverage synergies on both sides,” continued Pultr. “Brokers may be sensitive to realtors, but I don’t think that’s an appropriate viewpoint. Realtors in general are an important partner to us, so with our new partnership we can leverage their distribution in a more meaningful way, and it’s an opportunity to improve upon our marketing ability in another language. They’re very skilled and versed in dealing with the Chinese community, and that’s helpful for us because we don’t have that specific skillset within our management team.
“We have individual agents who are Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking, but this is an opportunity for us with that market demographic and to get additional recognition in the Chinese community.”
Nu Stream, for its part, did its homework searching for an eminent independent brokerage it could partner with. Moreover, that the firms were already familiar with each other certainly helped.
“When we were looking at this next stage of growth, TMG’s support systems, training and tools impressed us,” said Wells Peng, founder and CEO of NU Stream. “The TMG team is the best fit for our company and we look forward to continuing to grow together.”
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