NAI Harcourts commercial property specialist, Phil Grant has been named the top commercial agent in Australia at last Wednesday’s Harcourts Annual Awards held at Jupiters on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

The win also comes following Mr Grant’s recent win as the top commercial agent in Queensland, at the recent Harcourts Queensland Annual Awards held at The Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre at South Bank.

Mr Grant’s success has come early on in his commercial real estate career with the agent having sold commercial properties in the North Brisbane area for almost two years.

In these two years, Mr Grant has received several awards, including top two commercial agent for NAI Harcourts in 2014 as well as his recent wins.

Mr Grant felt honoured to receive the award, thanking his team and the wider Harcourts Group.

“I feel very honoured to have received this award. It’s good to know that all the hard work throughout the year has been recognised and I couldn’t have done it without the great team around me and the excellent assistance provided from Harcourts.

Mr Grant says he believes a lot of his success in commercial real estate comes down to hard work and maintaining strong relationships with his network of clients.

“Regardless of the size of my clients business, I always aim to provide the best possible service for them to achieve the outcome they want. By doing this I have managed to retain very loyal clients,” says Mr Grant.

Mr Grant says the demand for commercial and industrial property has seen an improvement in the first two quarters of this year, with take up of secondary stock kicking off a number of speculative builds and receiving more interest from some of the larger organisations.

“We have also seen high levels of interest for well positioned investment properties across the board from your small ‘mum and dad’ investors to your larger private investors and trust funds”, says Mr Grant.