That’s why Cilla is so successful: she listens, she cares, and she tells the truth. She also does a lot more than just sell real estate. She runs our big community events, like the Breakfast Point Easter Egg Hunt, the Spring Fair and the Breakfast Point Realty Charity Golf Day for Multiple Sclerosis. When either of us has a wild idea, Cilla has the creative vision, then makes it happen. “I think the reason we’ve been able to work together for so long is that Cilla brings things to the table no-one else can: fierce loyalty and trust. We often finish each other’s sentences, and if I can’t be somewhere, I know I can send her in to replicate the same result as me, if not better.” Alison “It’s funny to think 90 percent of people who know us around Breakfast Point probably don’t realise we are sisters. Even funnier is that while we’re incredibly close now, Cilla and I clashed at school. We’re two years apart in age, but there was only one between us when we boarded at St Vincent’s in Kings Cross. We used to have the hugest rows, so you’d hear all the other girls’ doors slam shut if we started to raise our voices. But no one else was allowed to yell at her. The only person I’ve ever gotten into an altercation with was someone who upset Cilla. “We’re both larrikins, but I feel like us ending up in property was always going to happen. Both of our grandfathers, maternal and paternal, were stock and station property agents and our father was a farmer grazier until the prospect of having no siblings and two daughters, along with drought, saw him sell up and open a real estate agency Merimbula on the New South Wales coast. “Both of us had stints working for our father once we finished school, then Cilla did commercial real estate in the Sydney CBD and I started at LJ Hooker Kings Cross after I got my industry license. Breakfast Point Realty happened almost by accident back in 2003. I remember being in the shower when my second son Sam was four months old and thinking I should open my own agency here in the community, which was only a couple of years old at the time. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. "I love Breakfast Point and the fact I felt safe raising my boys here for 11 years. Even as little fellows, I’d let them ride their bikes out of my sight to the end of the point and back, which was about three kilometres. Everyone knew they were my boys and I knew that if they fell over someone would pick them up. Even now, the demographic is really special. I don't agree with the stereotype of real estate being glamorous, but I’m proud of what I do, of our fantastic agency, and proud of our industry. Cilla and I were having drink with a client after a sale with a lovely older lady, and she showed us a quote she found that described a real estate agent as a matchmaker who helps you fall in love with the place you build a life. That was really touching. “I wanted Cilla with me in my agency from the start. She’s incredible. If you want to be good in this industry you’ve got to ask people questions and really listen to their answers. It sounds obvious, but you’d be amazed how many people don’t. It’s hard to imagine a pair that knows Breakfast Point and its residents better than popular sisters Cilla Green (left) and Alison Beveridge (above right), the founder of Breakfast Point Realty. With lifestyle matchmaking in their blood and mutual awe for one another’s talents, the once self-confessed boarding school rivals are living proof opposites combined can create magic. Just the two of us A Sister Act Story by Rachel Sharp That’s why Cilla is so successful: she listens, she cares, and she tells the truth. She also does a lot more than just sell real estate. She runs our big community events, like the Breakfast Point Easter Egg Hunt, the Spring Fair and the Breakfast Point Realty Charity Golf Day for Multiple Sclerosis. When either of us has a wild idea, Cilla has the creative vision, then makes it happen. “I think the reason we’ve been able to work together for so long is that Cilla brings things to the table no-one else can: fierce loyalty and trust. We often finish each other’s sentences, and if I can’t be somewhere, I know I can send her in to replicate the same result as me, if not better.”
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