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Real Estate Agency Principal resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what real estate agency principals actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most real estate agency principals should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Licensed real estate principal with experience leading sales and property management teams across residential and commercial portfolios. Holds a full real estate licence and has managed trust accounts, compliance audits and agency budgets in line with state and territory legislation. Focused on building sustainable rent rolls and high-performing teams.
Key skills
- Selling and negotiation
- Regulatory compliance and licence supervision
- Trust account management and reconciliation
- Operations management
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Risk and internal controls
- People leadership and performance management
- Client relationships and vendor advisory
- Agentbox
- VaultRE
- Reapit
- PropertyMe
- Xero
Experience: example bullet points
- Supervised a team of 15 sales agents and property managers, holding the agency licence and ensuring compliance with state or territory legislation.
- Reconciled trust accounts weekly, clearing a backlog of 200 transactions and reducing audit exceptions to zero.
- Set commission and fee structures that increased listing conversion across the residential division.
- Recruited and trained eight new agents, cutting onboarding time from six weeks to four.
- Reviewed agency budgets and vendor reporting, improving gross profit margin on property management.
- Led the rollout of VaultRE and PropertyMe, integrating sales and property management data into one reporting view.
Education
Bachelor degree in business, property or commerce, or a Diploma of Property (Real Estate), plus the state or territory real estate licence and ongoing continuing professional development.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- real estate licence
- trust account reconciliation
- property management
- sales agency management
- Office of Fair Trading
- Consumer Affairs
- CPD
- rent roll
- vendor reporting
- landlord reporting
- sales agent supervision
- compliance audit
- REINSW
- REIV
- REIQ
- Agentbox
- VaultRE
- Reapit
- PropertyMe
- Xero
- Australian Consumer Law
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.