Keatings Real Estate

John is a fourth generation Woodend resident, his great grandfather Kerin Keating, a blacksmith, settling in Woodend after immigrating from Ireland in 1858. His grandfather James Keating worked for the Victorian Railways on the Melbourne- Bendigo line. John’s father Jack (J.J. Keating Jnr) started the real estate agency business in 1949 as an adjunct to his general store business which was on the site of the present Woodend Pharmacy. Upon Jack’s passing in 1966, the agency business was run by John’s mother M.V. (Vera) Keating.