We're not your typical agency.
We're real estate done differently.

It sounds obvious. But in an industry where agents put their face on billboards and buses, and brag about being number one, it's rarer than you'd think.

Helping people is in agenté's DNA

Mike was born in Guatemala and moved to El Salvador as a child. His parents were part of an international mission group that helped rebuild homes after the 1976 Guatemalan earthquakes. Decades later, Mike's mother Helen founded a charity in Nicaragua focused on micro-enterprise training for women in desperate situations.

Mike's introduction to real estate was flipping property to resource his family while founding Pathway Trust — a social enterprise that helps people make a fresh start. Funded by its commercial arm Alloyfold, makers of lightweight folding aluminium chairs (recently fitted out the seating in the Christchurch Stadium). By 2007, Alloyfold was the fastest-growing manufacturer in New Zealand.

But Mike needed a change. Whatever he did had to help people. So he turned to real estate.

Tenacity honed in tough markets

Mike started full-time in real estate in 2009, just after the GFC. Then between September 2010 and December 2011, the Christchurch earthquakes hit. Mike took off his suit, rolled up his sleeves, and helped board up broken homes.

In April 2011 he bought a Mike Pero Real Estate franchise and began his journey of doing real estate differently. He closed one of the very first post-quake sales in Christchurch, and soon had sold signs up at the epicentre of the damage. The skills and tenacity he developed through the GFC and the earthquakes have shaped everything we do.