Estate Agent Talk
Edward Mellor Adopt New Conveyancing Panel Management Software.
Edward Mellor sought to provide an enhanced and tailored conveyancing experience for their clients, strengthen relationships with their panel of local conveyancing solicitors and improve business intelligence around the large volume of transactions their agency generates. They embedded Hoowla’s cloud based conveyancing panel management software at the start of 2015 to achieve just that. Hoowla’s…
Alex Evans
Do You Know These Villains?
I would love to go on about the million different strategies’ to sell a house but I’m not. I’m unable to speak for other areas but certainly in mine, agents over estimate the value of properties competing with each other fearing they’ll miss out on an instruction if they don’t give the highest price! Why…
Alex Evans
99% of Estate Agents are ‘Rude’ ….. and don’t even know it!
Before I’m inundated with ‘how dare you!’ comments please hear me out as there is a serious and solid point behind my headline. I’ll explain how I’ve come to the startling figure that 99% of estate agents are making themselves seem impolite or even downright rude. And I’m pretty sure they don’t even realise they’re…
Alex Evans
When Real Estate Gets Real Emotional.
As we all know, Michael Jackson’s former Neverland Ranch has recently and indeed very publicly, been listed for sale and despite reverting back to its original name, for millions and millions of people around the world it will always be the home of the King of Pop. Remove the controversy surrounding MJ and what we’re…
Alex Evans
How To Convert Your Real Estate Listings Into Amazing Content.
What do you do when your SEO guy is constantly nagging you to write an article that’s so far out of your comfort zone that the mere idea of it fills you with dread? Welcome to my attempt at turning what is for me a hideously technical subject, into something vaguely digestible. And guess what?…
Alex Evans
HOW TO DEAL WITH NOISY NEIGHBOURS WHEN SELLING YOUR HOUSE
The time has come, you want or NEED to move house. For an unfortunate few selling their home is due to noisy neighbours. Having made the difficult decision to move house and put your property on the market, you now have a new issue to deal with – How do you deal with those troublesome…
Alex Evans
Tiny Margins – Massive Successes – What estate agents can learn from Team Sky.
Just over a week ago Chris Froome became the first British man to win the Tour de France (TDF) twice. He endured endless mountains, some disgusting behaviour from rival fans and the most fiercely competitive TDF for decades. As a recent convert to cycling I was delighted for him and Team Sky. I’ll hold my…
Alex Evans
The Property industry is “sexy”!
After our initial blog ‘Women in Construction’ got great attraction, we continued by writing a summary blog of ‘what the women in property, think about women in property’. Both blogs received great response, and after collecting the feedback from the ladies we interviewed, it proved that the majority had the same opinions. The vast majority…
Alex Evans
How to attract buyers? With a Morgan Three-Wheeler!
Michael Riley, Director of Capital & Coastal, an estate agency specialising in the sale and let of property with water frontage, sea views and coastal locations along the South coast, has invested in a rather unusual company vehicle, the Morgan Three-Wheeler. The former Head of Sales for Savills and Head of Operations for Romans in…
Christopher Walkey
When Estate Agents Clash – Do you argue with fools?
Last week I received a call at 7.30pm from an angry client. I remember the exact time as it was halfway through me catching up on the highlights of that day’s Tour de France. My client had just read the local paper and seen a rival agent having a snipe at his agency. He was…
Alex Evans
Make every viewing count.
Now it’s time for viewings! You have chosen an agent to do the job and you are paying them a fee, I cannot stress this point enough – let the agent do the viewing. A potential buyer feels more comfortable, able to ask any questions, talk about the neighbours, how busy the road is etc., when…
Alex Evans
Estate Agents get on the front foot to win hearts and minds.
Hi Folks. Here’s an article I wrote for the July issue of The Property Drum magazine and the only time I’ll see my name next to someone of the status of Mahatma Gandhi. PR Expert Jerry Lyons believes estate agents are too often backward in stepping forward to challenge the media’s negative view of the…
Alex Evans
Channel 4 documentary #DirtyRussianMoney, what was your take on things?
Across social media this topic was ‘warmly’ spoken about and at times increased to ‘heated’ discussions, especially across Twitter. What was your views on things, many say it was merely a show that stitched up Estate Agents in London… ?? Please share your views on here on via Twitter with us on http://www.twitter.com/eauknetworking or a…
Christopher Walkey
News update: Where we are with Estate Agent Networking.
Thought it was just the right time to give another little update to who we are and what we look to achieve at Estate Agent Networking. Firstly we would like to point out that the website started after our launch of the UK’s now largest estate agency group on LinkedIn which in itself is highly successful in bringing industry…
Alex Evans
Giving a voice to the demand side in the Property market (And getting agents to work harder…)
“Where is the Dec19 SX5E 3500/4000 one by two call spread now”? Does this sentence sound alien? On the trading floors of the City of London it is an everyday occurrence when a customer such as a pension fund or a hedge fund sends a request to banks to get the latest quote on a specific financial product….
Alex Evans