Estate Agent Talk
Why are you an estate agent?
Do you bounce out of bed before the alarm every morning, with a spring in your step and a smile on your face? Or do you hit the snooze button seven times in a row before eventually dragging your body out from under the duvet to face the world? How you get up in the…
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Network of Agents Celebrates Whirlwind First Year
A network which helps estate agents win more instructions in the land and new homes sector is celebrating its first birthday on Wednesday 28 June. The Land & New Homes Network is a membership organisation based in Marlborough providing training, support, tools and connections for non-competing independent agents across the UK. The network’s founder, Kevin…
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Race To The Bottom
Race To The Bottom Many agents I speak to complain about the low fees On-Line agents charge and how it is affecting their ability to gain instructions. Until recently the market leading, on-line online agents have been charging around £700 (up front) to market a property. I say recently as “Move Self” have launched a…
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A Marriage Of Inconvenience – Estate Agents & Property Lawyers
You can’t live with them and you can’t live without them – property lawyers. Clients instruct estate agents to ‘sell’ their property and yet the closest that any estate agent is able to get to fulfilling their client’s need is to ‘offer accepted’. You will never see an estate agent advertising ‘We can get an…
Christopher Walkey
The Ageing Population and the Housing Market
There are many challenges associated with house hunting for older citizens stemming from a number of sources. The fact that many older persons who are interested in moving are at least partially driven by a desire to downsize from a larger family home, into something more manageable is a hurdle in itself. But when the…
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The Importance of Insulating Your Home Before Selling It
If you’re hoping to get the best possible price for your home when it sells, there’s a few things you can do to potentially increase its value. Adding good quality insulation is one of the best upgrades you can make in order to both boost the home’s price and increase buyers interest. So, why exactly…
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Are you the Chesney Hawkes of estate agency?
Remember Chesney Hawkes? I’m guessing most people do. He is the poster boy of the one hit wonder phenomenon. His record – I am the one and only – topped the charts in 1991. Then he vanished so suddenly it was almost a case for New Scotland Yard’s missing person’s department. But what does Chesney’s…
Jerry Lyons
Avoid the race to the bottom
Earlier this month saw two big news stories which highlighted some things worth noting if you work in the estate agency business. The result of the General Election shocked most people across the country. What looked like being a Conservative landslide two months ago when the decision to go to the polls was made has…
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The UK Housing Market Appears To Be Riding On Quick Sand
What is going on with the UK housing market? A recent study conducted by Lloyds Bank shows a sharp decline in home purchases in select areas of the region. Lloyds Bank show statistics where some areas in the UK are seeing transaction numbers 30 percent lower than that of the period right before the financial crisis. In particular,…
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Property buyers in the UK could receive an average £25,000 discount on asking prices
A recent study reveals that 31 percent of all properties in the UK have had their initial asking price reduced since first entering the market. Stockton on Tees tops the list with 49 percent of properties experiencing price reductions, followed by the North East oil capital, Aberdeen, with 46 percent of property prices cut. Of…
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CIELA “Birth” unlikely with current support levels, unless more agents join now.
CIELA, the Charter for Independent Estate and Lettings Agents which aims to represent the collective interests of independent agents, said today that it was not currently receiving enough support to have a realistic chance of launching on 1st October. Presently it is in its pre-launch “incubation” period until 30 September – it is inviting owners…
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Time for high street agents to fight back
If the press or the markets are to be believed the high street agent has been on the ropes…
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Estate Agents – In the absence of Differentiation – Vendors Pick Their Estate Agent on Fee
Sunday Times UK Agent of the Year tells us all in this 24 sec video what is required to win business in this tough market
Christopher Watkin
2 things every agent must have to be successful
The two top skills my intuition tells that an estate / letting agent must have to be successful is …
Christopher Watkin
What makes Millennials tick?
This has been a subject of interest and an important topic of debate for quite sometime to try and pinpoint exactly what turns Millennials on For those new to the phrase the term Millennial is those individuals born between roughly 1980 – 2000. The end of 2015 and turn of 2016 saw Millennials become the…
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