Estate Agent Talk
Warning: Not adding value is detrimental to your business.
As an estate agent you believe that the service you provide adds value to your clients, but is it true? Are you really adding value? Are you confident in the belief of the service you are giving? When valuing a home, what is your approach? I was speaking to a friend of mine the other…
Stephen Brown
Are ‘Online Estate Agents’ actual Estate Agents?
What does Wikipedia, a website that many of us would consider a good source of relevant information, say that an ‘Estate Agent‘ is classed as: “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. An agent that specialises…
Christopher Walkey
Is a hybrid estate agency around the corner?
Not even the fanciest of crystal balls has been able to predict the future of the property market but one thing is certain – the way people buy and sell property will change over the new few months and years. Already we have seen a big revolution in the way people search for property, with…
ARPM
VIDEO: Gender equality in the property sector.
Equality is everywhere the property industry should not be any different.
Alex Evans
NEW HEATMAP REVEALS REGIONAL SOCIAL HOTSPOTS.
Following on from my previous blog asking “How is social media being embraced within the property industry?”, I thought I’d take a look at a great visualisation answering this very question. The guys over at Propertyflock have recently launched the first social media heatmap for property. The heatmap shows estate agents up and down…
Christopher Walkey
Online agents… Where are they headed?
Since the announcement by Agents Mutual last year that they would be launching a completely new property portal namely Onthemarket.com there has been a concentrated coverage by the media on the subject, including all the pros and cons of having a new property portal, comments from agents and their reactions to the “one other”…
Allen Walkey
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…
Alex Evans
VIDEO: Are graduates the way to go in the UK Property Industry?
Unemployment remains high, Axis Europe believe graduates are the way to go.
Alex Evans
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?
Alex Evans
VIDEO: The Growing Population of Women in Property.
If you had the power how would you boost the representation of women in the industry?
Alex Evans
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
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
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…
Alex Evans