Innovative | Diverse | Purposeful

Steve Mercieca is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of QuickLets and Zanzi Homes, the QLZH Group.

“My enthusiasm for new technologies propelled the company to a team of over 500 property specialists in just seven years. “I strongly believe in offering a culture that attracts ‘like-hearted’ people, fuelled by grit and a purposeful drive to give back to society. “My future is brimming with inspiration, however, I’m keen to surprise and not share too much information just yet,” he says.

Founded in December 2013, QuickLets is the largest letting agency on the island of Malta. It has more than 20,000 property owners registered on its system and offers the largest live letting database on the island, providing an efficient and friendly service focused on the client.

Zanzi Homes is the QLZH Group's specialised brand, focusing on the sale of real estate. Launched in April 2015, the company offers a fresh and diverse portfolio of properties to clients.

As synonymous with the QLZH Group, Zanzi Homes is a pioneer in launching new technologies in the Maltese real estate industry. In 2016, it was the first to introduce the use of virtual reality for property tours and viewing. It kept increasing the number of properties viewable in 3D.

Mr. Michael Mercieca is a Malta Warranted, Certified Public Accountant, a Fellow of the Association of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants and the Malta Institute of Accountants. Mr. Mercieca also successfully read for both the Diploma in Taxation and the Advanced Diploma in International Taxation and for some time sat on the tax committees of both the Malta Institute of Taxation and the Malta Institute of Accountants. Mr. Mercieca is officially licenced in his personal capacity as a Corporate Service Provider (under threshold Class B). He held the position of Senior Manager at Deloitte Malta, originally having joined the firm’s audit practice 14 years earlier.

Fabio has been with Zanzi Homes since April 2017 and oversees the daily running of the brand, together with QuickLets as well as supporting QLC. He is the Secretary General of the QLZH Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the group which mainly focuses on the environment and humanitarian causes. Fabio has a decade of experience in banking, where he held various leadership positions. He consolidated his work experience with a Master's Degree in Leadership and Organisational Psychology from Dublin City University. 

“I drive the operational goals of QuickLets and Zanzi Homes and oversee several functions including technological developments, project management, good governance, internationalisation, people experience, employer branding and, up until recently, also marketing,” Fabio Zuccaro asserts.

He attributes the key to any successful operation to the level of focus and attention given to the well-being of the human capital, who he describes as the beating heart of the company.

“Access to growth prospects is essential to bring out the best version of everyone,” he says.

Fabio was seconded to Cyprus to manage the growth of the QuickLets and Zanzi Homes brands on the island for thirteen months, “with prospects of further growth in other jurisdictions later on through the years”. The QuickLets and Zanzi Homes office in Cyprus was successfully set up and launched and then handed over to a local Franchise Owner who operates today.

Having started in real estate around 2002, following his studies overseas, Paul Trapani Galea Feriol joined the leading high-end property company on the island spending four years there. Having always been fascinated by and interested in the property market, he always worked both with and for various large family projects such as Townsquare, Sliema, as well as on sales of sites from private family estates.

“At the start of 2019, I decided to take up a new adventure as Head of Sales and faced the challenge in bringing Zanzi Homes up to the level that QuickLets, its sister company, occupies in the market.

“The aim is to lead the market on sales also and I’m proud that we have had two years of almost doubling our targets. We have a fast-growing team that is both hungry and driven. We now offer a great service on all forms of property, both residential and commercial, and are currently building a phenomenal sites team too,” he says.