[4 MIN VIDEO] – How High St Estate Agents can combat the Purplebricks / Hybrid / Call Centre Estate Agent threat

June 16, 2016

My thoughts on how estate agents can protect themselves against the Online / Purplebricks / Call Centre /Online Estate agents of this world….

… you might agree…  you might not?

For more thoughts on tackling the online threat and the threat from other High Street estate and letting agents … you might find my iTunes Podcast for Estate and Letting Agents interesting??   ..

For on Windows and Android or you don’t have an iTunes account – you can access the podcasts here  Podcast on Soundcloud for Estate & Letting Agents

For those with Apple Products …. Click on the logo for the iTunes Podcast for Letting and Estate Agency here ..

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Christopher Watkin

I teach, guide, support, mentor, consult, counsel, partner many hundreds of UK Estate and Letting Agents in their quest to grow their estate and lettings agencies business. Old school techniques of touting, landlords wanted leaflets, ring us for a free valuation, we have sold this in your street leaflets don't work anymore. There are too many competitor agents .. meaning cheap fees are epidemic, overvaluing is almost a norm to get the stock and don’t even mention about the online/hybrid threat. So a few years ago, I set about looking around the UK and spotted that certain agents (not many mind you) in certain towns were still seen as the ‘go to person on property’, the person the newspaper editor rang up every week for a comment and I looked at what they did and they were doing some thing quite remarkable…. Only one thing but they were doing it so well .. and reaping the reward in terms of decent listings and decent fees, happy staff, decent sales pipeline and exchange income, managed lettings portfolios in the many hundreds .. but more importantly, they really enjoyed the job… they enjoyed getting up in the morning and people looked up to them Over 400 agents around the UK are on a mission to change the way our Estate and Lettings agency profession is perceived and looked upon, doing it town by town, city by city. I guide these 400 agents, teach them, mentor them and support them to be seen in a different light, to be seen as the ‘go to person for property’, actually be the ‘local property expert’ and prove it. Christopher Watkin 07950 147 572 christopher@christopherwatkin.co.uk

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