Real Estate Services
Our Story

Built by people who
got tired of watching.

Real Estate Services wasn't built in a boardroom. It was built by two people who spent decades inside the industry and decided the way agents were being treated wasn't good enough.

Why We Exist

"Good agents have been doing the work for years and getting treated like they should be grateful for the privilege. We were never okay with that. We never have been."

Giovanni Gaggia · Founder & CEO
The Beginning

Twenty-three years of pattern recognition.

Giovanni Gaggia spent more than two decades inside South African real estate, in leadership roles at some of the biggest names in the market. Long enough to see the same thing happen over and over: the agents doing the work were the ones keeping the least.

Desk fees. Royalties. Marketing levies. A commission split that quietly funded everyone except the person who closed the deal. He founded Real Estate Services in 2019 to build the alternative he kept wishing existed.

Giovanni Gaggia, Founder and CEO of Real Estate Services
The Backbone

Conviction needs a machine behind it.

A belief doesn't run an agency. Carrol Dell does. With more than ten years in real estate, she built the operational backbone that turns the idea into something agents can actually rely on: compliance, training, and the discipline of running a serious operation.

Giovanni carries the why. Carrol makes it work in practice. Neither one without the other. Together, they are the company.

Carrol Dell, Shareholder and Executive Manager
The People Behind It

Two founders. One conviction.

Giovanni Gaggia
Founder & CEO

Giovanni Gaggia

More than 23 years in South African real estate, including leadership roles at major brands. He founded Real Estate Services after seeing first-hand that agents weren't keeping a fair share of what they earned. He carries the conviction the company was built on.

Carrol Dell
Shareholder & Executive Manager

Carrol Dell

More than 10 years in real estate and an active shareholder operating at senior management level. Deeply engaged with industry regulation and agent empowerment, she built and runs the operational backbone that makes the model work.

What Drives Us

Vision, mission, and one value.

Vision

To be leaders in making real estate transactions a breeze throughout South Africa.

Mission

To provide premium, high-quality services to our agents.

Values

Honouring people above business and deals.

Since 2019

What agents have built on the platform.

R378.5m
in agent commissions
6,135
homes sold
R15.6bn
property value transacted
774+
active agents

Figures pending final leadership sign-off before publication.

A happy family outside their new home
Real People. Real Service. Real Results.

The model we wished existed.
Now it's yours to join.

If you're a registered agent who's done the work and wants to keep more of it, we should talk. Five minutes to apply, no cost, no obligation.

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