Estate Agent Talk
YOMDEL REVEALS WHY BUSINESSES CAN’T AFFORD TO IGNORE DIGITAL INNOVATION
During its presentation at Google headquarters in London last week as part of the digital marketing experience designed for estate agents, Yomdel stated that an estate agent’s website is their most important office. The number of visitors online is far higher than any branch on the high street and with the offline market slowing, it…
Andy Soloman
Cure your GDPR woes for just £75 – The fastest and Easiest way:
As owner and editor of a couple of major industry news channels that hold big email databases the whole topic of GDPR was of course interest to me. Just like many I am sure I put things off until the last minute when getting my websites GDPR compliant fell in to the critical stage, ie…
Christopher Walkey
How to maintain property maintenance
Let’s discuss property repairs. Push aside the image of tenants trashing a property rock star-style because that level of behavior, thankfully, hardly every happens. Instead, we’re focusing on the mundane maintenance tasks that need attention every day in property management. If a tenant contacts you with a problem, we can probably pre-empt what it might…
ARPM
Property staffing crisis? Here’s a tip from Yomdel on securing the best candidates.
With estate agents struggling to recruit key personnel, a small change in business operational structure could yield significant results that drives increased revenue growth and in turn helps agents compete successfully for the most experienced candidates. The property sector may be being disrupted by new business models and fees may have fallen, but the most…
Andy Soloman
WHAT PRICE A SELLER’S SANITY?
Finding a buyer for a property has until very recently at least! been the relatively easy part of the selling process. Managing an agreed sale through to completion is where the real hard work and skill starts and the true property professionals earn their money. A recent study suggested that Purple Bricks sales success rate…
Maurice Kilbride
VALUERS/LISTERS – How to Close a Free Val into a Listing Every time
Estate Agents – What Is the Best Way to Trial Close A Free Valuation? Probably not the way you are doing it at the moment
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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…
ARPM
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