Estate Agent Talk
Train to become a RICS Surveyor in Scotland
Following demand from customers and surveying practices, Sava has developed its unique Diploma in Residential Surveying & Valuation specifically for the Scottish market. It’s part of Sava’s plans to hold more regional courses, to ensure that surveying talent can be developed across England, Wales and Scotland. The Diploma has been purposely designed to create competent…
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Tandem retailing – the future of High Street agency?
It can’t have escaped your notice that many High Street units across the country lie vacant, with a number of big chains going bust or closing stores. Whether it’s to do with BREXIT, out-of-town retails parks, online shopping or crippling rents, it’s a sorry sight. All might not be lost, however, with a new style…
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3 possible routes to becoming an estate agent
According to specialist recruiter Property Personnel, we’re in the middle of the worst estate agency staffing crisis of a generation. And recruitment guru Anthony Hesse predicts that the recruits who’ll fill the gap and perform best will be imported from outside the sector. Property sales is one profession where there are currently no mandatory qualifications…
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UK house price slowdown, drop, crash and more negative news forthcoming?
There is an ever greater presence of negative news on UK house prices from many industry respected names, is it now time for the eagerly awaited price correction, or is it just a slight foot off the gas as we engage into another higher gear of house price rises? “Almost one-third of homes have been…
Christopher Walkey
Can the 80/20 rule save your business?
We’ve written before about the immense time pressure letting agents and property managers are under. Who couldn’t do with an extra pair of hands, more hours in the day or even an eight day week? Let’s stop there. You may feel under resourced and overwhelmed by lettings compliance, management tasks and administration when the reality…
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Developing new surveying talent in Wales and the West of England
Sava is taking its successful Diploma in Residential Surveying & Valuation into Wales, with its first Welsh based intake starting in October 2018 in Newport. It’s part of Sava’s plans to hold more regional courses, to ensure that surveying talent can be developed across England, Wales and Scotland. Sava offers the Diploma in Residential Surveying…
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Calling all Estate Agents!
TheHouseShop.com is the UK’s no. 1 property marketplace, providing free property advertising for estate agents and a fresh source of buyer, vendor and valuation leads. Find out how your agency can benefit from TheHouseShop’s services today. Transcript “As we all know, the property market is crowded. There are big players and smaller agents all competing…
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How to keep staff & avoid burn out
We don’t need to tell you that property is now a 24/7 business. The surge in decentralised, online offerings is forcing traditional High Street agents to go above and beyond their usual standard in a bid to keep up. But at what price? It may be that you’re opening longer hours to catch the after…
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Why Estate Agents NEED to be Con Men and Women
There’s a new type of con man and woman in town. And thankfully this emerging breed of con artists has zero to do with being smart talking, shiny suited charlatans tricking decent people out of their money. For con people in 2018 replace confidence (as in con man / woman) with content. Because folks if…
Jerry Lyons
Can We Merge Bitcoin and Real Estate and Is it the Future?
Cryptocurrency; the digital currency that underpins the Blockchain and the “new kid on the block” when it comes to investment assets. Like any child pushing at its limitations and restraints, the recent volatility has caused concern amongst some people. But where some see trouble others see an opportunity. A firm of property developers, GoHomes, recently…
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Why a Private Seller Could Be Your New Best Friend…
It is a well-known fact within the industry that the relationship between private sellers and estate agents has been rather frosty to say the least… For many traditional estate agents, private house sales represented a critical threat to their businesses and undermined the core foundations of the estate agency value proposition. But attitudes towards alternative…
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Why You Don’t Need to Worry About Online Estate Agents
Our world is being overcome by the internet; it is spreading across our modern society and encompassing everything in our lives, from talking to friends to selling your house. The internet has revolutionised the property market, changing the way consumers think about property and how to sell, buy, let or rent. Online estate agents have…
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How will GDPR affect Estate Agents?
GDPR is not an acronym which stands for something funny like LOL – it’s an important regulation that every business needs to be made aware of. GDPR is coming into effect in May this year and it will affect your estate agency. We have written what GDPR is and what steps you can take now…
Alex Evans
13,941 members and growing – Estate Agent Networking on LinkedIn
Firstly, if you have not yet joined and are a user of LinkedIn then I invite you to do so now: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3073629 Why should you bother joining and becoming a member? It is free to join groups on LinkedIn and free to obviously join our group! The group already contains over 13,900 highly responsive and active…
Christopher Walkey
How is the high street coping with online agents?
When I opened my own full service ‘online’ agency 6 years ago, I knew that there was an opening for something different. My opinion was somewhere in between the fully optimistic “the high street is dead” and the traditional “sellers want local offices” as I believed that there was room for both, in various forms,…
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