Estate Agent Talk
I hate my job as an estate agent
How to be a better Estate/Letting Agent… Even If You Hate Your Job If you are reading this, you are either an employer or an employee. Can I ask a question of the employers – Why did you set up your own estate or lettings agency ? (Most of my readers are estate or letting…
Christopher Watkin
Agents- The Vicious Circle of Low Fees
We have all been there … “Can you drop your fees?” … the landlord/vendor tells us that they loved everything that we showed them and how different our approach is ….but then asks us to lower the fee to bag the listing, to win the business. So, most agents lower the fee. Then, because we…
Christopher Watkin
London Estate Agents – Earning Half the Tea in China.
My fellow geniuses and I at eMoov have just finished a cool piece of research. It will shock you. And if you’re an estate agent of the dyed-in-the-wool variety, spare your blushes and look away now. We thought it would be informative, probably shocking and certainly controversial to analyse the amount that Londoners have spent on…
What makes the perfect Estate Agent?
So, let us see what Wikipedia has to say re what an Estate Agents is: “An estate agent is a person or business that arranges the selling, renting or management of properties, and other buildings, in the United Kingdom and Ireland.” We also can now say that an estate agent could be both a traditional…
Christopher Walkey
Estate Agency Legals on Sole Agency & Multi Agency Agreements.
When it comes to buying a selling property in the UK nearly all of us will be using the services of an estate agency. The choice of estate agencies are immense from national chains to local independents, from traditional high street types to solely online agencies. An important thing to remember is that all these…
Christopher Walkey
Data-Driven Estate Agent Comparison.
The property industry is a British obsession. Major newspapers rarely go a week without a story promoting our combined lust for bricks and mortar. But in the middle of all this reporting of price rises and extreme property transactions are estate agents. One of the biggest threats to traditional estate agents is that anyone can…
Business Development – It isn’t always about Big Budgets!
Estate Agency (Sales) is a ‘transactional business’ ie an agent wins the instruction, sells their clients property and the client moves on…one engagement and one transaction – there is no repeat buying of your services every week, every month or even every year. There will always be an exception whereby the same client asks you…
Is a Smart Home worth more money?
Being Smart brings to mind a whole host of thoughts… Do you mean being sensible, is it being good at using a Smart Mobile Phone or does it refer to what you control remotely? Well for this blog we will take a look at all three of these things by way of Smart Technology for…
Christopher Walkey
Agents: Do Your Competitor Agents Hate You?
Successful estate and letting agents inexorably and unavoidably draw attention to themselves. These estate and letting agents work really hard, things seem to happen, get done when they put their mind to it, everyone talks about them and people take notice. But on the darker side, have you noticed though, that whenever someone does well…
Christopher Watkin
Worried about your 2016 targets?
When I worked in estate/letting agency, on the front line, I hated the first day back after New Year, everything was reset to zero, all the numbers… just like pressing that button on your cars odometer to get it back to zero (The odometer is the display that indicates distance travelled by a car …..
Christopher Watkin
A quick look back over 2015
As 2015 comes to an end I thought it might be interesting to just look back at some items of news that stood out during the year for those of us involved in the Property Industry, if anyone has anymore to add please do so in the reply section. Month by month 2015 January. Analysts…
Allen Walkey
Online Estate Agents revealing nearly all…
Lots of news in the air towards Online Estate Agents and many new names are entering the industry. Are they rivaling traditional estate agency or are they simply adding a new dimension to how people buy/sell/rent property in the UK? We contacted a selection of Online Estate Agency concepts via Twitter and asked them some…
Christopher Walkey
2016 – Motivated Vendors… Yes Please!
Here’s the Estate Agents perfect scenario – every vendor is motivated to sell and will sell. Nothing wrong with that – but is it reality or is it a happy valley dream? What proportion of your stock is taken up by unmotivated vendors? Understanding your clients motivation to sell is just one part of the…
Property – Never an ‘Elephant in the room’.
Over the years I have been fortunate enough to participate in many amusing and inspiring debates. I have also had the misfortune of attending some work meetings that were simply uninteresting and dull. So the ‘anaesthetic’ of choice for those tedious times was to ‘throw’ into the conversation something about Politics – usually a guaranteed…
The Fall and Rise of Online Agents
Ok, can I ask you a question … … if a competitor estate or letting agent in your town, that had been going for a couple of years had say 2.5% of the market … would you be worried about them, would they keep you up at night, would you even consider changing your agency’s…
Christopher Watkin