Estate Agent Talk
Pension Changes – A Boon For Agents?
With legislation enabling us to draw down our pensions in one lump sum coming into effect from April this year, letting agents should expect the market to be flooded by a wealth of new buy to let landlords from the silver sector. And this dad’s army of mature new landlords are set to offer high…
VIDEO: Are graduates the way to go in the UK Property Industry?
Unemployment remains high, Axis Europe believe graduates are the way to go.
VIDEO: How ‘Sexy’ is the Construction and Property industry?
What needs to be done to attract more young talent to the social housing and property industry?
VIDEO: The Growing Population of Women in Property.
If you had the power how would you boost the representation of women in the industry?
eMoov.co.uk receives £1.5m financing to continue it’s growth.
Leading estate agency disruptor eMoov.co.uk has received a significant boost, securing a £1.5m financing that they will be investing to improve customer experience. The online estate agency concept eMoov has experienced strong growth this year and, with a customer satisfaction rate of 98%, the online estate agency has gone on to sell over 3,500 properties, offering home…
Christopher Walkey
Agents should spend LESS on marketing: It will get you more free valuations.
If you think your lettings agency or estate agency needs a larger marketing budget, just before you go and spend £12,000 on a page a month in Kent Life for a year, just before you take an extra page in the newspaper each week, just before spend thousands of pounds on the next thing since…
Christopher Watkin
Resignations, workplace perks & staff retention .
Did you return to work in January to find a white envelope on your desk? The start of a new year often prompts change and there are probably a few lettings directors and property managers out there smarting over a resignation letter (or two). If an envelope on your desk has rocked your team dynamic,…
ARPM
London House buyer enquiries decline.
A recent report out by The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors highlights a decline in the number of new buyer enquiries in December as compared to November last year, Estate Agents expect this weakening of demand in the capital to lead to a drop in house prices of around 5% average during 2015. Many would…
Allen Walkey
Video: Women’s roles in the property sector in 2015?
How do you see Women’s roles in the property sector progressing in 2015 and what effect will the elections have on the property sector?
4 reasons why you should not buy an estate agency franchise.
So you want to be your own boss, you love Homes under the Hammer and when you go on holiday, Rightmove checks if their website has gone down because the traffic to their site drops by a third? Sound familiar? Below are 4 reasons why you shouldnt buy a franchise, but interestingly, the same 4…
Christopher Watkin
Clients may question the choice of “other agent”.
Figures are beginning to be released as to which other portal agents are choosing who have opted to join Onthemarket.com, a report from Exane BNP Paribas says more agents are so far known to be leaving Zoopla than expected – a total of 764 branches, the launch of estate agent owned portal Agents’ Mutual is…
Allen Walkey
Women in Property and Construction.
Women currently represent only 11% of the construction workforce in the UK? Most of these jobs are office based and only 2% work in manual jobs. Although there are a number of companies working hard on projects to change these statistics, it still confuses me why they are so low in the first place. An…
How to Convert Leads Into Deals in 2015.
2015 has arrived and a new year brings fresh ideas and new strategies to make sure you stay on top of your game when it comes to marketing and selling property. With so much available information which is often contradictory, the difficulty for marketers and sales teams is often knowing where to start. My advice…
The average UK house price.
The start of the new year always comes with predictions and comparisons, that is to say looking back over the previous year’s housing activity and data and looking forward to how the property market may perform on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis. One of the main figures used to indicate performance is the average…
Allen Walkey
UK house price growth slows in last quarter of 2014.
The Guardian reports that according to the Nationwide Building Society UK house price growth slowed sharply in the last 3 months of 2014, this cooling off of prices was most apparent in 3 regions of the UK..the north west..Yorkshire and Humberside..and Wales where it was recorded that there were outright price declines in the final…
Allen Walkey