Rocky Gagliardi
Rocky Gagliardi
Kevin Hicks
Darren Scott
Des O’Shea
Kevin Hicks
Ron Stewart
Barry Jones
Jock Stewart 1956
Rossignoli & Les Young 1973
Rowland Crosby 1995 Ellis Gough 1962
Des O’Shea 1973
Although established just five years ago, Kevin Hicks Real Estate holds more than 130 years combined experience from leading local residential, industrial, commercial and rural real estate agents, creating the most practised and professional property sales and rental agency in the Goulburn Valley. At just 17 years of age, Kevin Hicks began as a trainee stock and station agent in 1985 working for local, Desmond O’Shea who started Des O’Shea Real Estate in Shepparton in 1973, encouraging locals to come in and “Say G’day to Des O’Shea”. Kevin and Charles Medland eventually bought the business’s stock and station division from Des O’Shea Real Estate, naming it Medland and Hicks in 1989 while Des continued operating on its real estate sector before he sold that also to the current City of Greater Shepparton Mayor, then independent agent, Geoff Dobson in 2002.
228-232 Wyndham Street, Shepparton 12 Melville Street, Numurkah
Des continued working in the business for Geoff. Already affiliated with Geoff through his involvement with Shepparton United Football Club, Kevin then bought the business, Geoff Dobson Real Estate from Geoff in 2004, selling his share of Medland and Hicks to Charles. With ambitions to make the agency the best in the region across all sales sectors, residential, commercial/ industrial and rural. Kevin secured leading local residential agent, Rocky Gagliardi and leading rural agent, Barry Jones who was then working for Young’s and Co. Real Estate (formerly Young and Rossignolli Real Estate) in January 2005. Mentored by Les Young and Dante Rossignolli, Barry had more than 25 years experience when he joined Kevin Hicks Real Estate. Rocky came from Chilcott Real Estate and had worked for the company when it was formerly Crosby Real
Estate owned by Rowland Crosby who had bought out Ellis Gough’s share of the former Ellis Gough Real Estate agency when he retired in 1994. Rocky had worked alongside Ellis who first established the business in 1962, gaining valuable industry knowledge and expertise from his experience. Rocky later became an equal partner in Kevin Hicks Real Estate in December 2006, simultaneously employing another accomplished local agent, Ron Stewart son of Jock Stewart as the leading Commercial Agent. In July 2007 Darren Scott purchased a share in the business, becoming a director and is heading the agency’s Numurkah office. In 2010, the business is seen as the most successful real estate agency in the Goulburn Valley, Kevin achieving his goal in just four years to become the biggest and the best.
Phone: (03) 5821 8388 Phone: (03) 5862 2611 The Adviser – Shepparton’s 150 years of progress – September 2010 – Page 55